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Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) is one of the most fascinating composers. It is hard to escape the temptation of seeing in his madrigals the tortured reflection of his psyche, beginning with the murder he committed in 1590, when he caught his first wife Maria d'Avalos in blatant adultery with her lover Fabrizio Carafa. The madrigals of the fifth and sixth books are to Gesualdo what the black paintings are to Goya works conceived in a state of solitude, with no limits on the artist's imagination, born in enclosed spaces and used to moving around in their gloom. Gesualdo's sixth book of madrigals contains some of the most extraordinary harmonic thinking in the history of Western music - it lives on the edge of modality, it's chromatic lines forming chord progressions that still sound fresh and unpredictable to modern ears. Album Tracks 1. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Se la mia morte brami 2. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Beltà poi che t'assenti 3. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Tu piangi ò Fille mia 4. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Resta di darmi noia 5. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Chiaro risplender suole 6. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Io parto e non più dissi 7. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Mille volte il dì moro 8. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~O dolce mio tesoro (Instr.) 9. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Deh come in van sospiro 10. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Io pur respiro 11. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Alme d'amor rubelle (Instr.) 12. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Candido e verde fiore (Instr.) 13. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Ardita zanzaretta 14. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Ardo per te mio bene 15. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Ancide sol la morte (Instr.) 16. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Quel nò crudel (Instr.) 17. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Moro, lasso, al mio duolo 18. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Volan quasi farfalle (Instr.) 19. Sesto Libro de Madrigal~Al mio gioir il ciel si fa sereno 20. Sesto Libro de Mad
