Amore Contraffatto
) | Label: Catalog: DIGR23 Format: COMPACT DISC ENSEMBLE SOLISTES XXI DESJARDINS SAFIRFrom great torment to immense serenity. Carlo gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, was the creator of the most extreme version of musical Mannerism, a formal-technical experience deeply linked to the biographical experience, where the dissonance and chromaticism, the violent dynamic contrasts and the melodic lines seem to dry up the sound instead of enriching it, communicating a tormented state of mind. In 1603, Gesualdo became more interested in religion, when his uncle Alfonso Archbishop of Naples, died on February 14th. This loss deeply affected Carlo, so much that he fell into a ''serious indisposition'' as he wrote to Cesare d'Este, on February 22nd. His health deteriorated rapidly and he even experienced mental disorders - at the same time he developed a morbid veneration of St. Charles and his relics. In 1603 he published in Napoli, for the publishing house of Constantine Vitale, 39 polyphonic pieces in two books entitled Sacrae Cantiones, on penitential texts. In the following years, Carlo was increasingly overwhelmed, enshouded in a dark obsession over his offenses, a prostration that was expressed well in Responsoria in 1609, and published in 1611.  Price: $25.98 |