Exaudi Vocal Ensemble - Gesualdo: Madrigali (2019) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. 'Mercè!', grido piangendo (V)
02. Io pur respiro in così gran dolore (Vi)
03. Itene, o miei sospiri (V)
04. Gioite voi col canto (V)
05. 'Io parto' e non più dissi (Vi)
06. S'io non miro non moro (V)
07. Deh, come invan sospiro (Vi)
08. Mille volte il dì moro (Vi)
09. Asciugate i begli occhi (V)
10. O dolorosa gioia (V)
11. Se la mia morte brami (Vi)
12. Ardita zanzaretta (Vi)
13. Volan quasi farfalle (Vi)
14. Al mio gioir il ciel si fa sereno (Vi)
15. Dolcissima mia vita (V)
16. Tu piangi, o Filli mia (Vi)
17. Moro, lasso, al mio duolo (Vi)
18. Languisce al fin chi da la vita parte (V)


James Weeks writes: “EXAUDI, long-established among the UK's leading vocal consorts, presents fresh readings of 19 of Gesualdo's madrigals from Books V and VI, combining rigorous stylistic understanding and tonal beauty with an overriding focus on the music's extreme expressive vision. The late madrigals of Gesualdo exert a strange and enduring fascination on the modern musical imagination. Listening today to these extraordinary messages of anguish and ecstasy, we are drawn back to his flame like lovers who can’t let go, into the warp of chromatic harmony, the emotional hyper-intensity and mysterious otherness of this most tantalising early Baroque figure.”

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