Gesualdo: Complete Sacred Music for Five Voices (豆瓣)

又名: Early Music / Alte Musik
表演者: Jeremy Summerly / Oxford Camerata
流派: 古典
专辑类型: 选集
介质: CD
发行时间: 1993-11-11
出版者: Naxos
唱片数: 1
条形码: 0730099574228
其他版本: Complete Sacred Music For Five Voices (Oxford Camerata) （全部）

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　　About this Recording
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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... (展开全部) 　　http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.550742
　　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.