Tenebrae Responsories / Benedictus / Miserere

Album by Carlo Gesualdo & A Sei Voci

This release is a recording of sacred vocal works by Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo, originally composed and published in the early 17th century (c.1611). The music is characterised by intensely chromatic late-Renaissance polyphony, dramatic text-painting and abrupt harmonic shifts that place it at a transitional and distinctive point in Gesualdo's oeuvre and in the development of early Baroque vocal music.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Responses for Maundy Thursday, Nocturnus I: I. In monte Oliveti oravit ad Patrem
    3:57
  2. 2.
    Responses for Maundy Thursday, Nocturnus I: II. Tristis est anima mea
    4:42
  3. 3.
    Responses for Maundy Thursday, Nocturnus I: III. Ecce vidimus eum
    6:55
  4. 4.
    Responses for Maundy Thursday, Nocturnus II: IV. Amicus meus osculi me tradidit
    3:39
  5. 5.
    Responses for Maundy Thursday, Nocturnus II: V. Juda mercator pessimus osculo petiit
    2:12
  6. 6.
    Responses for Maundy Thursday, Nocturnus II: VI. Unus ex Discipulis
    4:52
  7. 7.
    Responses for Maundy Thursday, Nocturnus III: VII. Eram quasi agnus innocens
    5:32
  8. 8.
    Responses for Maundy Thursday, Nocturnus III: VIII. Una hora non potuistis vigilare mecum
    3:09
  9. 9.
    Responses for Maundy Thursday, Nocturnus III: IX. Seniores populi consilium fecerunt
    5:41
  10. 10.
    Miserere (Psalm 50)
    6:29
  11. 11.
    Responses for Good Friday, Nocturnus I: I. Omnes amici mei dereliquerunt me
    5:00
  12. 12.
    Responses for Good Friday, Nocturnus I: II. Velum tempii scissum est
    4:04
  13. 13.
    Responses for Good Friday, Nocturnus I: III. Vinea mea electa, ego te plantavi
    4:20

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Responses for Good Friday, Nocturnus II: IV. Tanquam ad latronem existis cum gladiis et fustibus
  2. 3.
    Responses for Good Friday, Nocturnus II: V. Tenebrae factae sun, dum crucifixssent Jesum Judaei
  3. 4.
    Responses for Good Friday, Nocturnus II: VI. Animam meam dilectam tradidi in manus iniquorum
  4. 5.
    Responses for Good Friday, Nocturnus III: VII. Tradiderunt me in manus impiorum
  5. 6.
    Responses for Good Friday, Nocturnus III: VIII. Jesum traditit impius summis principibus
  6. 7.
    Responses for Good Friday, Nocturnus III: IX. Caligaverunt oculi mei fietu meo
  7. 8.
    Benedictus (Canticle of Zachariah)
  8. 9.
    Responses for Holy Saturday, Nocturnus I: I. Sicut ovis ad occisionem ductus est
  9. 10.
    Responses for Holy Saturday, Nocturnus I: II. Jerusalem, surge
  10. 11.
    Responses for Holy Saturday, Nocturnus I: III. Plange quasi virgo plebs mea
  11. 12.
    Responses for Holy Saturday, Nocturnus II: IV. Recessit Pastor noster
  12. 13.
    Responses for Holy Saturday, Nocturnus II: V. O vos omnes
  13. 14.
    Responses for Holy Saturday, Nocturnus III: VI. Ecce quomodo moritur justus
  14. 15.
    Responses for Holy Saturday, Nocturnus III: VII. Astiterunt Reges terrae
  15. 16.
    Responses for Holy Saturday, Nocturnus III: VIII. Aestimatus sum cum descendentibus in lacum
  16. 17.
    Responses for Holy Saturday, Nocturnus III: IX. Sepito Domino sigantum est monumentum

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