Erkki-Sven Tuur, Brett Dean, Carlo Gesualdo - Gesualdo (2015)
Erkki-Sven Tüür, Brett Dean, Carlo Gesualdo - Gesualdo (2015)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 278 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 135 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 2452, 4811800 | Time: 00:58:31
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 278 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 135 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 2452, 4811800 | Time: 00:58:31
This absorbing project finds Australian composer Brett Dean and Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür drawing inspiration in very different ways from the music, life and times of Carlo Gesualdo and juxtaposes these reflections with Gesualdo’s own music.
The music of Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa (1566-1613) has exerted a powerful influence on composers down the ages. His highly-charged, mannerist, idiosyncratic vocal music constitutes “a gallery of dramatically-lit portraits of human emotions with a heavy emphasis on the extremes of joy and despair” (to quote former Hilliard Ensemble singer Gordon Jones).
Brett Dean’s ‘Carlo’ (composed 1997) begins with pure Gesualdo from the 6th Book of Madrigals, then gradually enters a very 20th century sound-world. Through use of both sampled and real-time voices as well as increasingly intense strings Dean paints an hallucinatory picture of the Prince of Verona’s state of mind as he is driven toward his violent crimes of passion (he murdered his wife and her lover when he caught them in flagrante delicto) .
Erkki Sven Tüür’s ‘L’Ombra di Gesualdo’ references the Gesualdo motet ‘O crux benedicta’ from the Cantiones sacrae, and Gesualdo’s piece is also heard in an arrangement for strings by Tüür. The programme is completed by Tüür’s ‘Psalmody’, which is without a Gesualdo-inspired subtext but it too cross-references older and newer music, within the narrower time-frame of Tüür’s own oeuvre.
Gesualdo was the composer-prince who had a thing for self-torture. He murdered his wife and her lover one night in Naples, and his music inhabits the wildest chromatic reaches of the 16th century. No wonder the juiciest bad guy in classical music has sparked the imagination of so many composers since. This aptly angst-filled album conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste includes stylish string arrangements of Gesualdo’s vocal music, plus related works by Brett Dean and Erkki-Sven Tüür. We get the spicy opening chords of Gesualdo’s madrigal Moro lasso twice: first a transcription by Kaljuste, full of fine-sculpted space and slow-shifting contours, then Dean’s Carlo, an intensely atmospheric work from 2007 that opens with straight Gesualdo then implodes into a murky throng of whispering voices and tormented strings. The Estonians capture the dark psyche without overdoing it; most chilling is how they evoke glassy loneliness in hushed moments. Tűür’s Psalmody is the other big work on the disc, but at 20 minutes of jaunty neo-baroque minimalism, it isn’t half as interesting.Review by Kate Molleson, The Guardian
Erkki-Sven Tuur, Brett Dean, Carlo Gesualdo - Gesualdo (2015)
Tracklist:
01. Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa: Moro lasso (04:33)
02. Brett Dean: Carlo (20:37)
03. Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa: O crux benedicta (04:14)
04. Erkki-Sven Tuur: L’ombra della croce (06:57)
05. Erkki-Sven Tuur: Psalmody (22:09)
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Erkki-Sven Tuur, Brett Dean, Carlo Gesualdo - Gesualdo (2015)
