Credits:

Graindelavoix

Description:

New Grand Lavois recording! Tenebrae" by Gesualdo! The Grand Lavois is an ancient music ensemble founded in 1999 by Bjorn Schmelzer, a renowned musicologist in Belgium, a country of ancient music. Their recording of Guillaume de Machaut's masterpiece "Notre Dame Mass" (GCDP32110) won the "Record Academy Award" and made a huge impact on the world with its wild and powerful "old music performance. Grand Lavoie's new major project is the music of Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613), one of the most radical composers of the late Renaissance and a heretical genius. This is a monumental and testamentary magnum opus by Gesualdo, written in his last years (1611) by a genius composer who led a strange life: a family of clergy, the Duke of Venosa, and the Count of Conza, but also a bloody side of murdering his wife and her lover, and a lonely end to his later years. The Tenebrae Responsorium for Holy Week, which is over three hours long, including the recitation (lectio), is recorded with the singing voices of the Grand Lavois, each of whom boasts overwhelming skill.Schmelzer himself says "this is our most important recording to date" (this is our most important recording to date), and it is the most important recording of the Grand Lavois! The booklet includes an essay by renowned Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist, and music critic Mladen Dror. Tokyo M Plus

Tracklisting:

1.Aleph. Quomodo sedet sola civitas (Lectio I)
2.Tenebrae Responsories~In monte Oliveti (Responsorium I)
3.Zain. Recordata est Hierusalem (Lectio II)
4.Tenebrae Responsories~Tristis est anima mea (Responsorium II)
5.Lamed. O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam (Lectio III)
6.Tenebrae Responsories~Ecce vidimus eum (Responsorium III)
7.Exaudi, Deus, orationem meam (Lectio IV)
8.Tenebrae Responsories~Amicus meus (Responsorium IV)
9.Tenebrae Responsories~Iudas mercator pessimus (Resposorium V)
10.Tenebrae Responsories~Unus ex discipulis meis (Responsorium VI)
11.Tenebrae Responsories~Eram quasi agnus (Responsorium VI)
12.Tenebrae Responsories~Una hora (Responsorium VIII)
13.Tenebrae Responsories~Seniores populi (Responsorium IX)
14.Christus factus est (Antiphona)
15.Miserere mei Deus (Psalmus 50)