Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Consort and Choir honour the 400th anniversary of 16th-century Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo with a reissue of their seminal recording of Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday. Honouring the 400th anniversary of Carlo Gesualdo, the harmonically adventurous and experimental 16th-century Italian composer, Prince of Venosa, Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Consort and Choir offer a newly repackaged reissue of their seminal recording of Tenebae, the composer's final group of sacred madrigals devoted to Good Friday. The Taverner singers navigate Gesualdo's highly symbolic polyphonic structures with idiomatic first-rate performances and incisive scholarship.
1 Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday (Responsoria, 1611), in I. Nocturno, Antiphon - Astiterunt Reges Terrae/Psalm - Quare Fremuerunt Gentes (PS 2)/Antiphon - Astiterunt Reges Terrae -
2 Lectio I - de Lamentatione... Heth -
3 Resp. I - Omnes Amici Mei -
4 Lectio II - Lamed -
5 Resp. II - Velum Templi -
6 Lectio III - Aleph -
7 Resp. III - Vinea Mea Electa -
8 In II. Nocturno, Antiphon - Alieni Insurrexerunt/Psalm - Deus in Nomine Tuo (PS 53)/Antiphon - Alieni Insurrexerunt -
9 Lectio IV - Ex Tractatu... Protexisti Me -
10 Resp. IV - Tamquam Ad Latronem -
11 Lectio V - Tanta Opera Bona -
12 Resp. V - Tenebrae Factae Sunt -
13 Lectio VI - Exacuerunt Tamquam -
14 Resp. VI - Animam Meam Dilectam -
15 In III. Nocturno/Antiphon - Captabunt in Animam Justi/Psalm - Deus Ultionum Dominus (PS 93)/Antiphon - Captabunt in Animam Justi -
16 Lectio VII - de Epistola... Festinemus -
17 Resp. VII - Tradiderunt Me -
18 Lectio VIII - Adeamus Ergo -
19 Resp. VIII - Jesum Tradidit Impius -
20 Lectio IX - Nec Quisquam -
21 Resp. IX - Caligaverunt Oculi Mei
Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Consort and Choir honour the 400th anniversary of 16th-century Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo with a reissue of their seminal recording of Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday. Honouring the 400th anniversary of Carlo Gesualdo, the harmonically adventurous and experimental 16th-century Italian composer, Prince of Venosa, Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Consort and Choir offer a newly repackaged reissue of their seminal recording of Tenebae, the composer's final group of sacred madrigals devoted to Good Friday. The Taverner singers navigate Gesualdo's highly symbolic polyphonic structures with idiomatic first-rate performances and incisive scholarship.
