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  • ardcarp
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 11102

    Cruel Ecstasy

    Exaudi recently recorded (and filmed) madrigals from Gesualdo's books V and VI at Holy Trinity, Hoxton. This is on Youtube:

    The concluding event in our online 2021 City Summer Sounds festival features virtuoso vocal ensemble EXAUDI performing works from Carlo Gesualdo's 5th and 6t...


    Here is some of Gesualdo's more extreme harmonic language. Quite amazing that he could go to such places in approx 1611 ! Even more amazing is Exaudi's highly expressive performance, based on intensive specialist study and equally intensive rehearsal. We all love the likes of Voces 8 and Stile Antico...fabulous choirs...but this is something quite different. Exaudi's small number, directed (invisibly here) by James Weeks, is quite staggeringly good.

    The concluding event in our online 2021 City Summer Sounds festival features virtuoso vocal ensemble EXAUDI performing works from Carlo Gesualdo's 5th and 6th books of madrigals (1611), in a specially recorded concert at the church of Holy Trinity Hoxton.
  • Bryn
    Banned
    • Mar 2007
    • 24688

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    • ardcarp
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 11102

      #3
      Sorry Bryn, I should have mentioned that you got there first! I just wanted to bring the excellent recital to the attention of Early Music aficionados.

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      • Bryn
        Banned
        • Mar 2007
        • 24688

        #4
        Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
        Sorry Bryn, I should have mentioned that you got there first! I just wanted to bring the excellent recital to the attention of Early Music aficionados.
        The more mentions the performance gets, the better.

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        • Miles Coverdale
          Late Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 639

          #5
          I'm reminded of the line by John Milsom in his review of the Tallis Scholars' recording of Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories: 'Is this great music or merely weird?'

          Great or not, I do find nearly an hour's worth of this a bit too much: the perpetual instability is eventually distracting, like a musical version of ADHD.
          My boxes are positively disintegrating under the sheer weight of ticks. Ed Reardon

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