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Special offer. Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa: Sacrarum Cantionum

Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Paolo Da Col

Those expecting the composer's trademark chromaticisms in his motets will be largely disappointed, but these more conservative pieces dispel the idea that Gesualdo's eccentricity was any mask...

Special offer. Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa: Sacrarum Cantionum

Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Paolo Da Col

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Those expecting the composer's trademark chromaticisms in his motets will be largely disappointed, but these more conservative pieces dispel the idea that Gesualdo's eccentricity was any mask...

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Although the madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa constitute the best-known part of his oeuvre, his religious music is no less important, revealing a completely different facet of the composer. Aside from the Responsoria (1611), of which Philippe Herreweghe recently made a magnificent recording (LPH 010), most of Gesulado’s religious music was published in 1603 under the title Sacrarum cantionum. Unlike the Responsoria, intended for Holy Week services, the motets of 1603 are settings of texts for all circumstances of the liturgical year. For this recording, made in the Santa Trinità abbey church in Venosa, ODHECATON has enriched the sound palette of its men’s voices with a few instruments, including an ensemble of violas da gamba. Liuwe Tamminga counterpoints this programme with selected pieces by Giovanni Maria Trabaci and Giovanni de Macque on an historical organ of the Venosa region.

Contents and tracklist

Domine, ne despicias deprecationem meam, W viii, 28
Track length2:15
Sancti Spiritus, Domine, corda nostra, W viii, 26
Track length1:44
Exaudi, Deus, deprecationem meam, W viii, 42
Track length2:30
Venit lumen tuum, W viii, 14
Track length2:28
Illumina faciem tuam, W viii, 60
Track length2:58
Maria, Mater gratiae, W viii, 63
Track length3:00
Precibus et meritis, beatae Mariae, W viii, 45
Track length2:20
Ave, dulcissima Maria, W viii, 17
Track length3:50
Dignare me, laudare te, W viii, 24
Track length1:45
Ave, regina cœlorum, W viii, 11
Track length3:01
Hei mihi, Domine, W viii, 30
Track length2:57
Tribulationem et dolorem inveni, W viii, 57
Track length3:09
Peccantem me quotidie, W viii, 36
Track length3:53
Reminiscere miserationum tuarum, W viii, 21
Track length3:13
Tribularer si nescirem, W viii, 51
Track length3:25
Laboravi in gemitu meo, W viii, 33
Track length3:11
Deus, refugium et virtus, W viii, 54
Track length2:36

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November 2014

Those expecting the composer's trademark chromaticisms in his motets will be largely disappointed, but these more conservative pieces dispel the idea that Gesualdo's eccentricity was any mask for technical deficiency.

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