Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday

Album by Carlo Gesualdo & The Tallis Scholars & Peter Phillips

Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday is a set of sacred vocal works by Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo, published in 1611. The pieces exemplify his late Renaissance style, featuring intense chromaticism, sudden harmonic shifts and expressive dissonance applied within a liturgical Tenebrae context, and represent a late, experimental phase in his output where madrigalesque techniques are brought into sacred music.
First released: 1987

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: Sicut ovis ad occisionem
    3:45
  2. 2.
    Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: Ierusalem, surge
    3:31
  3. 3.
    Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: Plange quasi virgo
    5:29
  4. 4.
    Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: Recessit pastor noster
    3:40
  5. 5.
    Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: O vos omnes
    3:35
  6. 6.
    Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: Ecce quomodo moritur iustus
    5:46
  7. 7.
    Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: Astiterunt reges
    2:24
  8. 8.
    Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: Aestimatus sum
    3:48
  9. 9.
    Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday: Sepulto Domino
    5:32
  10. 10.
    4 Marian Motets: Ave, dulcissima Maria
    4:16
  11. 11.
    4 Marian Motets: Precibus et meritis
    3:02
  12. 12.
    4 Marian Motets: Ave, Regina coelorum
    3:30
  13. 13.
    4 Marian Motets: Maria, Mater gratiae
    3:42

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