Responsoria

Album by Carlo Gesualdo & Vienna Vocal Consort & Vijay Upadhyaya

Responsoria is a collection of sacred choral works by Carlo Gesualdo, published in 1611. These late-Renaissance liturgical settings feature dense polyphony, extreme chromaticism, abrupt harmonic shifts and strikingly expressive dissonance, and they occupy a late-career place in Gesualdo's output that showcases his unconventional approach to counterpoint and foreshadows expressive trends leading into the early Baroque.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    In Monte Oliveti
    4:14
  2. 2.
    Tristis est anima mea
    5:15
  3. 3.
    Ecce vidimus eum
    6:09
  4. 4.
    Amicus meus
    3:51
  5. 5.
    Judas mercator pessimus
    2:24
  6. 6.
    Unus ex discipulis meis
    5:02
  7. 7.
    Eram quasi agnus innocens
    5:13
  8. 8.
    Una hora non potuistis vigilare
    3:22
  9. 9.
    Seniores populi
    6:24
  10. 10.
    Omnes amici mei
    4:19
  11. 11.
    Velum templi scissum est
    4:00
  12. 12.
    Vinea mea electa
    4:07
  13. 13.
    Tamquam ad latronem
    3:26

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Tenebrae factae sunt
    5:50
  2. 3.
    Animam meam dilectam
    7:29
  3. 4.
    Tradiderunt me
    3:04
  4. 5.
    Jesum tradidit impius
    3:53
  5. 6.
    Caligaverunt oculi mei
    6:06
  6. 7.
    Sicut ovis
    3:15
  7. 8.
    Jerusalem, surge
    3:05
  8. 9.
    Plange quasi virgo
    5:10
  9. 10.
    Recessit pastor noster
    3:35
  10. 11.
    O Vos Omnes
    3:19
  11. 12.
    Ecce quomodo moritur iustus
    5:40
  12. 13.
    Astiterunt reges terrae
    2:25
  13. 14.
    Aestimatus sum
    4:17
  14. 15.
    Sepulto Domino
    6:10

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