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...Unwilling to rehearse or to respond to phone messages, he is obsessed with the half-creative, half-sinister figure of Carlo Gesualdo, the Renaissance composer of powerfully expressive madrigals and sacred...
...Gesualdo Madrigals Book 6 Collegium Vocale Gent (PHI) Composer, aristocrat, double murderer, Carlo Gesualdo has had a mixed press over the years to say the least....
...Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic: Every company, big and small, balances the service they provide with the needs of the business....
...One might think that Carlo Gesualdo’s music would thrive in the theatre....
...When Italian Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo caught his wife and her lover in flagrante and murdered them both in their bed, was life imitating art?...
...Music by Hildegard of Bingen has also been overhauled on his guitar, and last year he released a disc of transcriptions for guitar ensemble of madrigals by late Renaissance Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo...
...Flowing, intensely beautiful movement for two couples – danced to Gesualdo and Monteverdi madrigals under a chiffon canopy – contrasts with the shadowy world lurking below....
...They get another knock when Manon’s wealthy protector Geronte turns out to be the head of an S&M coven and a glamorous backing group trots on to sing the madrigal....
...Sex, betrayal and death are key themes whenever the name of Carlo Gesualdo arises....
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