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Gesualdo - Tenebrae

Label: Glossa
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD I: Feria Quinta – Tenebrae Responsoria for Maundy Thursday - Aleph. Quomodo sedet sola civitas (Lectio I); In monte Oliveti (Responsorium I); Zain. Recordata est Hierusalem (Lectio II); Tristis est anima mea (Responsorium II); Lamed. O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam (Lectio III); Ecce vidimus eum (Responsorium III); Exaudi, Deus, orationem meam (Lectio IV); Amicus meus (Responsorium IV); Iudas mercator pessimus (Responsorium V); Unus ex discipulis meis (Responsorium VI); Eram quasi agnus (Responsorium VII); Una hora (Responsorium VIII); Seniores populi (Responsorium IX); Christus factus est (Antiphona); Miserere mei Deus (Psalmus 50). CD II: Feria Sexta – Tenebrae Responsoria for Good Friday - Heth. Cogitavit Dominus dissipare (Lectio I); Omnes amici mei (Responsorium I); Lamed. Matribus suis dixerunt (Lectio II); Velum templi scissum est (Responsorium II); Aleph. Ego vir videns paupertatem (Lectio III); Vinea mea electa (Responsorium III); Tamquam ad latronem (Responsorium IV); Tenebrae factae sunt (Responsorium V); Animam meam dilectam tradidi (Responsorium VI);; Tradiderunt me in manus impiorum (Responsorium VII); Iesum tradidit impius (Responsorium VIII); Caligaverunt oculi mei (Responsorium IX); CD III: Sabbato Sancto – Tenebrae Responsoria for Holy Saturday - Heth. Misericordiae Domini (Lectio I); Sicut ovis ad occisionem (Responsorium I); Aleph. Quomodo obscuratum est aurum (Lectio II); Hierusalem, luge et exue te (Responsorium II); Incipit oratio Hieremiae Prophetae (Lectio III); Plange quasi virgo (Responsorium III); Recessit Pastor noster (Responsorium IV); O vos omnes (Responsorium V); Ecce quomodo moritur justus (Responsorium VI); Astiterunt reges terrae (Responsorium VII); Aestimatus sum (Responsorium VIII); Sepulto Domino (Responsorium IX); Mulieres sedentes (Ad benedictus antiphona); Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel (Canticum Zachariae); Mulieres sedentes.

Graindelavoix, Bjorn Schmelze: Gesualdo - Tenebrae

by C. Michael Bailey
July 26, 2020

Choral composer Carlo Gesualdo (1566 -1613) has a public relations problem. On October 16, 1590, Gesualdo came upon his wife, Donna Maria, and her aristocratic lover, Fabrizio Carafa, in flagrante delicto, brutally killing them both and dragging their mutilated bodies in front of his Palazzo Sansevero for all to see. As Gesualdo was of noble birth ...