Gesualdo: Madrigali libro secondo, 1594

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I've found myself warming to the overall approach, which is relaxed and unhurried. This, combined with the ensemble's sound, securely underpinned by Walter Testolin's bass, allows points of detail... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 More…

Release Date: 1st Nov 2010
Catalogue No: 8570549
Label: Naxos
Series: Gesualdo Complete Madrigals
Length: 55 minutes

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Gesualdo: Caro amoroso neo

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Caro amoroso neo

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Ma se tale ha costei

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Gesualdo: Hai rotto, e sciolto, e spento a poco a poco

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Gesualdo: Se per lieve ferita

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Se per lieve ferita

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Che sentir deve il petto

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Gesualdo: In piu leggiadro velo

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Gesualdo: Se così dolce è il duolo

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Se così dolce e il duolo

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Ma se avverra ch'io moia

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Gesualdo: Se taccio, il duol s'avanza

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Gesualdo: O com'e gran martire

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O com'e gran martire

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O mio soave ardore

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Gesualdo: Sento che nel partire

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Gesualdo: Non è questa la mano

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Non e questa la mano

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Ne tien face o saetta

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Gesualdo: Candida man qual neve

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Gesualdo: Dalle odorate spoglie

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Dalle odorate spoglie

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E quell'arpa felice

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Gesualdo: Non mai, non cangerò

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Gesualdo: All'apparir di quelle luci ardenti

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Gesualdo: Non mi toglia il ben mio

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Gesualdo: Canzon francese

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Gesualdo: Gagliarda

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Gesualdo’s Second Book of Madrigals, performed on this recording by male voices only, is an even more radical study of the themes explored in Volume 1 (8570548), a continuation as it were of the same work.

Like Book 1, it was published in 1594 in Ferrara during the preparations for Gesualdo’s second wedding, and demonstrates his ability to treat the poetic word as a source of musical ideas.

The last two tracks present Gesualdo’s only two instrumental compositions.

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February 2011

I've found myself warming to the overall approach, which is relaxed and unhurried. This, combined with the ensemble's sound, securely underpinned by Walter Testolin's bass, allows points of detail to tell (for example, final or sectional cadences) that might otherwise be skated over.

20th January 2011

for the most part the 20 settings in book two...mostly inhabit the musical world of Gesualdo's older contemporaries such as De Rore and De Wert. But even if they broke no new ground, these are still pieces of great beauty and lyrical force, as the performances by the six male voices of Delitiae Musicae show.

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