GESUALDO: Sacred Music for Five Voices (Complete)_音乐专辑
GESUALDO: Sacred Music for Five Voices (Complete)
又名: Early Music/Alte Musik
表演者: Jeremy Summerly/Oxford Camerata
介质: CD
发行时间: 1996-01-04
唱片数: 1
出版者: NAXOS
条形码: 0730099574228
专辑简介
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About this Recording
English
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Carlo Gesualdo (c.1561 - 1613)
Sacrarum Cantionum Liber Primus [5 voices] (1603)
Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, Count of Conza, was a murderer; he was also one of the most intriguing composers of his generation. These two statements are necessarily interrelated: the received image of a tortured soul writing idiosyncratic music in the aftermath of his wife's homicide is a powerful one. But to suggest that Gesualdo's evident state of mental unbalance affected his fundamental musical competence is both misleading and unfair.
Gesualdo murdered his wife and her lover in cold blood in 1590. The Prince's public display of the corpses represents the behaviour of a man who was convinced by the morality of his action. When Gesualdo remarried four years later his declining mental state drove his second wife to attempt divorce several times, albeit unsuccessfully. These are the facts that have led some critics to arrive at an unflattering assessment of Gesualdo's artistic achievements. It is regularly asserted that the music is technically unsound and that the composer's renown depends more on a colourful biography than on a legacy of great music. And while Gesualdo's fame will always rely on the documentation of his wife's murder, it is a poor musician who is incapable of recognizing the consistency and competence of Gesualdo's surviving works.
The nineteen five-voice motets in the Sacrae Cantiones represents mixture of styles. Some are unashamedly madrigalian designed for performance by solo voices whereas others are every bit as expansive as any late-Renaissance examples of the genre. Each motet bears the obvious stamp of Gesualdo's individual musical language; even those motets that make minimal use of chromaticism exhibit unusual part-writing which is at best faintly bizarre and at worst baffling. Gesualdo's choice of texts with in the Sacrae Cantiones is similarly self-indulgent favouring motets whose themes embrace sin, death, and guilt. The calculated use of disturbing chromatic sidesteps at phrases such as 'miserere mei' (have mercy on me),'Iacrimismeis' (my tears), and 'dolormeus' (my sorrow) is self-piteous in the extreme.
It is difficult therefore to empathize with all of Gesualdo's work, peppered as it is with self-conscious mannerisms that are the result of psychological self-torture: it is easy to be blinded by the more superficial elements of the music. But Gesualdo's basic style is as competent as that of Palestrina or Monteverdi; without a sound contrapuntal technique the more extreme gestures would not be as effective as they undoubtedly are. Any early-Baroque composer would surely have been proud to have written the motets 'Peccantem me', 'Laboravi', or 'O vos omnes', while the still life 'O crux benedicta' is an unparalleled model of late Renaissance fluency.
Oxford Camerata
The Oxford Camerata was formed by Jeremy Summerly in order to meet the growing demand for choral groups specializing in music from the Renaissance era. It has since expanded its repertoire to include music from the medieval period to the present day using instrumentalists where necessary. The Camerata has made several recordings for Naxos, and future plans include discs of music by Lassus, Tye, and Fauré.
Jeremy Summerly
Jeremy Summerly was a choral scholar at New College, Oxford from where he graduated with First Class Honours in 1982. For the next seven years he worked as a Studio Manager with BBC Radio and it was during this time that he founded the Oxford Camerata. In 1989 he left the BBC in order to join the Royal Academy of Music as a lecturer in the department of Academic Studies and in 1990 he was appointed conductor of Schola Cantorum of Oxford. He has recently signed a long-term contract with Naxos to record a variety of music with the Oxford Camerata and Schola Cantorum of Oxford.
曲目
Gesualdo, Carlo
[Show Details] Illumina faciem tuam
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
1. Illumina faciem tuam 00:04:25
[Show Details] Deus refugium et virtus
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
2. Deus refugium et virtus 00:02:26
[Show Details] Exaudi Deus deprecationem meam
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
3. Exaudi Deus deprecationem meam 00:02:45
[Show Details] Tribulationem et dolorem
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
4. Tribulationem et dolorem 00:04:57
[Show Details] Tribularer si nescirem
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
5. Tribularer si nescirem 00:03:52
[Show Details] Precibus et meritis beatae Mariae
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
6. Precibus et meritis beatae Mariae 00:02:17
[Show Details] O Crux benedicta
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
7. O Crux benedicta 00:04:19
[Show Details] O vos omnes
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
8. O vos omnes 00:03:57
[Show Details] Dignare me laudare te
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
9. Dignare me laudare te 00:02:00
[Show Details] Maria mater gratiae
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
10. Maria mater gratiae 00:03:58
[Show Details] Laboravi in gemitu meo
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
11. Laboravi in gemitu meo 00:04:20
[Show Details] Ave dulcissima Maria
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
12. Ave dulcissima Maria 00:04:39
[Show Details] Domine ne despicias
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
13. Domine ne despicias 00:02:12
[Show Details] Peccantem me quotidie
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
14. Peccantem me quotidie 00:05:25
Gesualdo, Carlo
Gesualdo, Carlo, lyricist(s)
[Show Details] Sancti Spiritus Domine
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
15. Sancti Spiritus Domine 00:02:06
Gesualdo, Carlo
[Show Details] Hei mihi Domine
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
16. Hei mihi Domine 00:03:45
[Show Details] Venit lumen tuum Jerusalem
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
17. Venit lumen tuum Jerusalem 00:02:48
[Show Details] Reminiscere miserationum tuarum
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
18. Reminiscere miserationum tuarum 00:03:55
[Show Details] Ave Regina coelorum
Oxford Camerata
Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
19. Ave Regina coelorum 00:04:07
Total Playing Time: 01:08:13
