Name: Gesualdo - Responsories Cycle Gesualdo
Start: 2022-04-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-04-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Les Dominicains de Haute-Alsace

Organization

Singer

Bass

Edward Grint

Tenor

Sean Clayton

Soprano

Maud Gnidzaz

Miriam Allan

Paul Agnew

Conductor

Contralto

Mélodie Ruvio

Les Arts Florissants

Gesualdo - Responsories Cycle Gesualdo

Perpignan

France

Guebwiller

Les Dominicains de Haute-Alsace

Public

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Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

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Baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Bass-baritone

Countertenor

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

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Gesualdo - Responsories Cycle Gesualdo: Concert Various

Gesualdo, Répons FR (Interview Paul Agnew)

The Responsories might be considered the final testament of this strange, violent, vengeful and yet pious figure. They are collections of nine sacred madrigals, a set for each of the last days of Holy Week. In this programme we will sing the settings for Maunday Thursday, the evening of the last supper, and of Christ’s prayers in the garden of Gethsemene before being betrayed by Judas, and sent to be tortured and sentenced at the hands of Pilate. It has been a tradition to perform these works in a choral setting but on examining the writing it is clear that they are much closer to the madrigals that Gesualdo published in the same year (Books 5 and 6) than to anything choral of the period. 


These works are destined for his own small ensemble of specialist singers with whom he often sang himself and the highly charged texts are set to music of vivid colour and profound beauty. The very name ‘reponsory’ implies a response to a previous text and in this evening’s performance we will commence by the plainchant setting to which the polyphonic works of Gesualdo respond. In so doing we hear each of Gesualdo’s works as individual meditations, separate from each other and to be valued as individual works.

English

Gesualdo - Responsories Cycle Gesualdo by Various, Sat 16 Apr 2022, From (2022/2022), Conductor Paul Agnew, Les Dominicains de Haute-Alsace, Guebwiller, France

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