Day 6: Today’s evocation of darkness for Good Friday is one of Gesualdo’s most famous sacred settings. It has been recorded many times; and as Donato Mancini noted, Gesualdo’s identification with the sufferings of Christ is reflected by the fact that “he kept as many as 13 hired servants whose sole task was to beat […]
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Free Nordic Voices Track Day 5 – Gesualdo and the Agony in the Garden
Day 5: We turn for the next couple of days to something completely different. Don Carlo Gesualdo was one of the most intense and peculiar people in all of history, much less the history of music. While reading his biography is fascinating, his peculiar musical side path, a manneristic use of extreme chromatic writing that […]
Read More…Free Nordic Voices Track Day 4 – Lamentations (Yod)
Our first four selections come from Tomas Luis de Victoria’s huge publication of the complete music for Holy Week (the Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae, published in Rome in 1585). Day Four: Both Victoria and his colleague in Rome, Palestrina, did extensive settings of today’s verse (we’ll turn to Palestrina’s in a few days!)—Yod—“The adversary hath sped […]
Read More…Free Nordic Voices Track Day 3 – Lamentations (Heth)
Our first four selections come from Tomas Luis de Victoria’s huge publication of the complete music for Holy Week (the Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae, published in Rome in 1585). Day Three: The first lesson of Holy Saturday begins with the letter Heth and a quotation from Lamentations 3: “It is of the Lord’s mercies that […]
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