Gesualdo – Tenebrae Responsoria
Carlo GESUALDO
Direction musicale
Paul Agnew
Ensemble
Les Arts Florissants
Cast
Miriam ALLAN, soprano
Maud GNIDZAZ, soprano
Mélodie RUVIO, contralto
Paul AGNEW
Sean CLAYTON, tenor
Edward GRINT, bass
Spectacles(s) lié(s)
- Gesualdo - Responsories for Maundy Thursday (2018-2019)
- Gesualdo - Reponsories for Maundy Thursday (2019-2020)
- Gesualdo - Responsories (2020-2021)
- Gesualdo - Responsories (2021-2022)
With their daring harmonies, unequalled refinement of counterpoint, and raw emotion, the Tenebrae Responsoria offer the sacred counterpart to Gesualdo’s last books of madrigals, published in 1611. Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants extend the critically acclaimed exploration of these six increasingly poisonous books. Their interpreta- tion of the Responsories for the Office of Holy Thursday slips subtly into the assumed dolorism of the late scores of the Prince of Venosa..
"A vibrant yet profoundly spiritual performance" The New York Classical Review