Gesualdo: Responsoria for Holy Week

Description

Carlo Gesualdo's choral works were unique for the time around 1600, and it takes only a few measures to identify their distinct style. No other composer advanced the interpretation of the text in such a varied manner as Gesualdo, and none wrote harmonies that are so daring and of such incomparable freedom in all of music history. Beyond his musical contributions, Gesualdo's life itself reads like an adventure novel – another singular feature among composers of that era.

Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday

1. in monte Oliveti
2. Tristis est anima mea
3. Ecce vidimus eum
4. Amicus meus osculi
5. Judas mercator pessimus
6. Unus ex discipulis meis
7. Eram quasi agnus innocens
8. Una hora non potuistis
9. Seniores populi consilium

Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday

1. Omnes amici mei dereliquerunt me et praevaluerunt insidiantes mihi
2. Velum templi scissum est
3. Vinea mea electa, ego te plantavi
4. Tamquam ad latronem existis cum gladiis et fustibus cemprehendere me
5. Tenebrae factae sunt, dum crucifixissent Jesum Judaei
6. Animam meam dilectam tradidi in manus iniquorum
7. Tradiderunt me in manus impiorum
8. Jesum tradidit impius summis principibus sacerdotum, et senioribus populi
9. Caligaverunt oculi mei fletu meo

Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday

1. Sicut ovis ad occisionem
2. Jerusalem, surge
3. Plange quasi virgo
4. Recessit pastor noster
5. O vos omnes
6. Ecce quomodo moritur justus
7. Astiterunt reges terrae
8. Aestimatus sum
9. Sepulto Domino

"et alia" – settings of:

1. Miserere mei, Deus (Psalm 51)
2. Benedictus (Luke 1:68–79)