Il Pomo d'Oro - Natale veneziano - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Well established in the field of historically informed performance, the Italian ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro has recently expanded it now includes a choir, and this is it's first solo recording. Conducted by Giuseppe Maletto, the ensemble presents here Gesualdo's fascinating first book of Sacræ Cantiones. Less well known than his madrigals, the nineteen five-part motets that make up this work explore the theme of repentance through the Liturgy of Penance and the figure of the Virgin Mary. The painfully voluptuous chromaticism and the expressive intensity and refinement of the lines make this work one of the most singular of that period. Gesualdo's interpretation of the liturgical text is intensely dramatic and highly personal. Il Pomo d'Oro renders perfectly the mysterious beauty of this music. Album Tracks 1. Gesualdo Ave Regina Cœlorum 2. Gesualdo Venit Lumen Tuum 3. Gesualdo Ave, Dulcissima Maria 4. Gesualdo Reminiscere Miserationum Tuarum 5. Gesualdo Dignare Me Laudare Te 6. Gesualdo Sancti Spiritus, Domine 7. Gesualdo Domine, Ne Despicias Deprecationem Meam 8. Gesualdo Hei Mihi Domine 9. Gesualdo Laboravi in Gemitu Meo 10. Gesualdo Peccantem Me Quotidie 11. Gesualdo O Vos Omnes 12. Gesualdo Exaudi, Deus, Deprecationem Meam 13. Gesualdo Precibus Et Meritis 14. Gesualdo O Crux Benedicta 15. Gesualdo Tribularer Si Nescirem 16. Gesualdo Deus, Refugium Et Virtus 17. Gesualdo Tribulationem Et Dolorem 18. Gesualdo Illumina Faciem Tuam 19. Gesualdo Maria, Mater Gratiæ

The WESER-RENAISSANCE ensemble had two goals in mind in it's concert series InchBreslau - A City in the Heart of EuropeInch the first was to offer musical enjoyment and the second was to remember an old cultural environment that had been forgotten for many decades. The music manuscripts and printed editions discovered in the Berlin State Library attest to the great diversity and high quality of music culture in what was once the capital of Silesia. InchDie Geburt unsers Herrn and Heylands Jesu ChristiInch (The Birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ), a Christmas narrative by Tobias Zeutschner, who was active at Breslau's principal churches St. Bernhardin and St. Mary Magdalene, forms the focus of the present selection from these sources in a program entitled InchWeihnachten i'm Breslau des 17. Jahrhunderts - Festmusik in der Kirche St. Maria MagdalenaInch (Christmas in Seventeenth-Century Breslau - Festive Music in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene). This early example of a Biblical history composition is richly scored for eighteen voices.

Album Tracks 1. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 La Giovinetta Pianta 2. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 O Come È Gran Martire 3. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 Sovra Tenere Erbette 4. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 O Dolce Anima Mia 5. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 Stracciami Pur Il Core 6. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 O Rossignuol 7. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 Se Per Estremo Ardore 8. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 Vattene Pur Crudel 1. Vattene Pur Crudel. 2. LÀ Tra 'l Sangue E Le Morti. 3. Poi Ch'ella 9. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 O Primavera 10. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 Perfidissimo Volto 11. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 Ch'io Non T'ami Cor Mio 12. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 Occhi Un Tempo Mia Vita 13. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 Vivrò Fra I Miei Tormenti 1. Vivrò Fra I Miei Tormenti. 2. Ma Dove, O Lasso Me. 3. Io Pur 14. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 Lumi Miei Cari 15. Madrigals, Book 3, for 5 Voices, SV 60-74 Rimanti in Pace 1. Rimanti in Pace. 2. Ond'ei Di Morte