Gesualdo da Venosa, Carlo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus

Da Col, Paolo, Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Odhecaton

RIC 343

Although the madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa constitute the best-known part of his oeuvre, his religious music is no less important, revealing a completely different facet of the composer. Aside from the Responsoria (1611), of which Philippe Herreweghe recently made a magnificent recording (LPH 010), most of Gesulados religious music was published in 1603 under the title Sacrarum cantionum. Unlike the Responsoria, intended for Holy Week services, the motets of 1603 are settings of texts for all circumstances of the liturgical year. For this recording, made in the Santa Trinità abbey church in Venosa, ODHECATON has enriched the sound palette of its mens voices with a few instruments, including an ensemble of violas da gamba. Liuwe Tamminga counterpoints this programme with selected pieces by Giovanni Maria Trabaci and Giovanni de Macque on an historical organ of the Venosa region.

Works:

• Gesualdo: Ave, Dulcissima Maria
• Gesualdo: Ave, Regina caelorum
• Gesualdo: Deus refugium et virtus
• Gesualdo: Dignare me laudare te
• Gesualdo: Domine ne despicias
• Gesualdo: Exaudi Deus deprecationem meam
• Gesualdo: Hei mihi Domine
• Gesualdo: Illumina faciem tuam
• Gesualdo: Laboravi in gemitu meo
• Gesualdo: Maria, Mater gratiae
• Gesualdo: O Crux benedicta
• Gesualdo: O Vos Omnes
• Gesualdo: Peccantem me quotidie
• Gesualdo: Precibus et meritis
• Gesualdo: Reminiscere miserationum tuarum
• Gesualdo: Sancti Spiritus Domine
• Gesualdo: Tribularer si nescirem
• Gesualdo: Tribulationem et dolorem
• Gesualdo: Venit lumen tuum Jerusalem
• Luzzaschi: Ave Maris Stella (attribution)
• Macque: Consonanze stravaganti
• Macque: Intrata d’organo
• Trabaci: Consonanze stravaganti

CD x 1

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28/05/2014

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