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The exotic harmonies in both expose the family resemblance between the styles of the two composers (though Gesualdo is even more experimental in his secular music) and the Monteverdi Choir is... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2025, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 18th Apr 2025
Catalogue No: SDG736
Label: SDG
Length: 59 minutes

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Palestrina: Stabat Mater, PdPWV Mot306 (Arr. for Double Choir by Richard Wagner)

Work length9:34

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Monteverdi Choir, Jonathan Sells

Gesualdo: Illumina faciem tuam

Work length2:59

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Jonathan Sells

Bruckner: Christus factus est, WAB 11

Work length4:31

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Jonathan Sells

Gesualdo: Ave, Dulcissima Maria

Work length4:00

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Jonathan Sells

Bruckner: Ave Maria (1861), WAB 6

Work length2:59

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Jonathan Sells

Gesualdo: O Crux benedicta

Work length2:58

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Jonathan Sells

Lotti: Credo in F Major: II. Crucifixus a 8

Work length2:51

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Jonathan Sells

Gesualdo: Tribulationem et dolorem

Work length3:19

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Jonathan Sells

Bruckner: Os justi meditabitur sapientiam

Work length4:12

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Jonathan Sells

Gesualdo: O Vos Omnes

Work length2:29

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Jonathan Sells

Bruckner: Salvum fac populum tuum, WAB 40

Work length2:48

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Jonathan Sells

Gesualdo: Peccantem me quotidie

Work length3:39

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Jonathan Sells

Bruckner: Vexilla regis, WAB 23

Work length6:44

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Jonathan Sells

Gesualdo: Laboravi in gemitu meo

Work length3:17

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Jonathan Sells

Bruckner: Locus iste, WAB 23

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Jonathan Sells

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Recorded live in concert in October 2024, this release marks the Monteverdi Choir’s 60th birthday and the 200th anniversary of Bruckner’s birth with an album that combines his celebrated a cappella motets with the sacred motets of Carlo Gesualdo (1566 – 1613). Performed in 2024 by the Monteverdi Choir in Ely, Oxford and the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich under conductor Jonathan Sells, the album brings alive the tormented passion of both composers’ music.

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June 2025

The exotic harmonies in both expose the family resemblance between the styles of the two composers (though Gesualdo is even more experimental in his secular music) and the Monteverdi Choir is admirably equipped to render the chord changes with security and warmth.

May 2025

I’m pleased to report that this first recording with Jonathan Sells is brilliant. Good news all round...The real standout stars of this album, though, are Bruckner’s motets. Masterpieces that they are, the Monteverdi Choir sing them with a ravishing blend of precision and warmth such that the Ave Maria and Os justi, in particular, must be among the finest accounts we have on record.

17th April 2025

These days, it’s more usual to hear Gesualdo’s music delivered by much smaller forces than the massed voices that are used here – there are 37 singers listed on the disc...Certainly, the austere majesty of the Bruckner motets is strikingly conveyed; whether the juxtaposition of the two composers seems effective will probably come down to personal taste.

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