Responsoria 1611
Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia (1611)
GESUALDO Carlo (1566-1613)
Collegium Vocale Gent - Philippe Herreweghe (Dir)
Label : PHI
Artikelnummer: LPH010
2 CD Spielzeit : 126:15
CHF 36.00
Although best known for his secular music, Gesualdo also wrote an almost equivalent number of sacred works. The Tenebrae Responsories comprise a set of pieces for Holy Week, in all twenty-seven motets for six voices, a psalm, and a hymn, published under his own supervision in 1611. As in his madrigals, the music is underpinned by many unexpected chromatic variations that create expressive images evoking tears, the earthquake, the despair of Christ on the cross, etc.