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