CD, Gesualdo (composer)
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Here, the singers zone in on Gesualdo’s final two anthologies (perhaps the rawest of all) with their usual crystalline clarity. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, Finalist - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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Combining Tallis and Gesualdo with modern/contemporary composers such as Sarah Rimkus, Gerda Blok-Wilson and the late Veljo Tormis can be tricky for an ensemble, but the Gesualdo Six and Owain... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The exotic harmonies in both expose the family resemblance between the styles of the two composers (though Gesualdo is even more experimental in his secular music) and the Monteverdi Choir is... — More…
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Park’s direction of the music is sensitive and alert variegated...Words and polyphonic strands are lucid, and while The Gesualdo Six can build up intense and resonant climaxes, their voices... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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The singers pay studious attention to the poetry and its nuances, painting the words with a rich palette and contrasting light and shade to reflect Gesualdo’s chiaroscuro...Harmonia Mundi’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Special offer. Gesualdo: Silenzio Mio. Il Quarto Libro Di Madrigali
Hannah Ely, Barbora Kabátková, Mélodie Ruvio, Benedict Hymas, Tore Tom Denys, Jonas Nordberg, Philippe Herreweghe
Collegium Vocale Gent
Broadly speaking, his singers lean into dissonance without a hint of surprise and thus Gesualdo’s harmonic eccentricities are soothed by understatement and impeccable ensemble singing. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Early Music
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Special offer. Stravinsky: Choral Works
RecommendedRuby Hughes (soprano) & Nicholas Mulroy (tenor)
Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh & Scottish Chamber Orchestra Soloists, Duncan Ferguson
Edinburgh's mixed cathedral choir bring vernal freshness to the cantata. — More…
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Building a Library, November 2018, Recommended - Liturgical
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These extremely accomplished singers makes sense of these notoriously wayward and enigmatic works… they are able to capture the kaleidoscopic thoughts of the poetry, producing clarity of utterance... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th March 2013
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2013, Winner - Musique ancienne
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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