Download, Gesualdo (composer)
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Combining Tallis and Gesualdo with modern/contemporary composers such as Sarah Rimkus, Gerda Blok-Wilson and the late Veljo Tormis can be tricky for an ensemble, but the Gesualdo Six and Owain... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Park’s direction of the music is sensitive and alert variegated...Words and polyphonic strands are lucid, and while The Gesualdo Six can build up intense and resonant climaxes, their voices... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri Quinto & Sesto
Les Arts Florissants (early music ensemble), Paul Agnew (tenor)
Here, the singers zone in on Gesualdo’s final two anthologies (perhaps the rawest of all) with their usual crystalline clarity. —
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Gramophone Awards, Finalist - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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The singers pay studious attention to the poetry and its nuances, painting the words with a rich palette and contrasting light and shade to reflect Gesualdo’s chiaroscuro...Harmonia Mundi’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Early Music
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The delight of these songs lies in the perfection of their execution. Alessandrini and his singers began their career with Monteverdi, learning how to burn with musical passion, and this CD... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Choral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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It seems to me that they have taken time to properly hit their stride, but here they rediscover the heights scaled with Claudio Cavina at the helm. These are near-flawless readings, effortlessly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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the choir makes a careful distinction between those pieces that depict events, and those that meditate upon them...Herreweghe also coaxes some very expressive moments from the choir (the dark... —
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Many vocal skills we now admire in opera were born in the early 17th century. These performances centre upon the techniques of the early solo singer-composers, wonderfully resurrected here by... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Baroque vocal
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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These extremely accomplished singers makes sense of these notoriously wayward and enigmatic works… they are able to capture the kaleidoscopic thoughts of the poetry, producing clarity of utterance... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th March 2013
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2013, Winner - Musique ancienne
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Gesualdo: Dolcissima Mia Vita. Madrigali A Cinque Voci, Libro Quinto (1611)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
These one-to-apart performances are perfect for navigating the gnarly dissonances and extreme expression of Italy’s controversial Renaissance great, as emotions run from ecstasy to deepest pain. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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