Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants conclude their exploration of this fascinating corpus. Even more than in his first books, Gesualdo here displays incredible modernity, playing in inimitable fashion on dissonances and chromaticisms. Love and death, joys and sorrows embrace and clash amid ever bolder harmonies.
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Reviews
International Classical Music Award 2024 Nomination in the Early Music category
International Classical Music Awards 2024
Shortlisted for the Gramophone Early Music Award
2023 Gramophone Award Shortlist
“…Here, the singers zone in on Gesualdo’s final two anthologies (perhaps the rawest of all) with their usual crystalline clarity.” *****
Steve Wright – BBC Music magazine (Brief Notes section) – May 2023
Recording of the Month
Fabric Fitch – Gramophone magazine – May 2023
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