Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Gesualdo: O dolce mio tesoro (2016) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

A personality has who provoked considerable controversy over the centuries, Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613), aristocrat, musician and murderer of his first wife, is no less a composer whose music is marked by subtlety and refinement. His innovative Sixth Book of Madrigals, written two years before his death, exploits all harmonic, chromatic, and textural possibilities to meet the texts’ expressive requirements and proves to be a veritable masterpiece of the genre.

After a first disc devoted to the Italian composer’s sacred works, the Tenebrae Responsoria, Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent invite us to (re)discover his secular music for the 450th anniversary of his birth. In masterful fashion, they propose a delicate, expressive reading of this complex music, doing justice to the modernity of the musical language of the Prince of Venosa. The acoustics of the church in the little Tuscan village of Asciano, where the programme was recorded in 2015, provides an ideal sound setting for this music.

Tracklist:
Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)
Madrigali a cinque voci, Libro sesto (1611)
1 Se la mia morte brami 03:37
2 Belta, poi che tassenti 03:03
3 Tu piangi, o Filli mia 03:10
4 Resta di darmi noia 02:57
5 Chiaro risplender suole 03:43
6 Lo parto e non piu dissi, che il dolore 02:51
7 Mille volte il di moro e voi, empi sospiri 03:12
8 O dolce mio tesoro 02:47
9 Deh come invan sospiro 02:57
10 Io pur respiro in cosi gran dolore 02:44
11 Alme damor rubelle 01:56
12 Candido e verde fiore 02:02
13 Ardita Zanzaretta 03:07
14 Ardo per te, mio bene, ma lardore 03:10
15 Ancide sol la morte 02:23
16 Quel no crudel, che la mia speme ancise 02:24
17 Moro, lasso! Al mio duolo 03:34
18 Volan quasi farfalle ai vostri almi splendori 02:37
19 Al mio gioir il ciel si fa sereno 02:14
20 Tu segui, o bella Clori, un fuggitivo core 02:20
21 Ancor che per amarti io mi consumi 03:08
22 Gia piansi nel dolore 02:12
23 Quando ridente e bella 02:27