Responsoria

Album by Carlo Gesualdo & Coro del Centro di Musica Antica di Padova & Livio Picotti

Responsoria is a collection of Tenebrae responsories by Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo, published in 1611. The music showcases Gesualdo's late-Renaissance style, featuring intense chromaticism, abrupt harmonic shifts and expressive dissonance in polyphonic sacred vocal writing, and forms a notable part of his late sacred output that illustrates his experimental harmonic approach.

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Sacrae Cantiones: Ave, Regina Coelorum
    2:37
  2. 2.
    Sacrae Cantiones: Ave, dulcissima Maria
    3:13
  3. 3.
    Sacrae Cantiones: Dignare me, laudare te
    1:45
  4. 4.
    Sacrae Cantiones: Precibus et meritis beatae Mariae
    2:15
  5. 5.
    Sacrae Cantiones: Maria, Mater gratiae
    2:50
  6. 6.
    Miserere mei, Deus (Psalm 51)
    8:25
  7. 7.
    Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia, Feria VI: Omnes amici mei
    3:47
  8. 8.
    Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia, Feria VI: Velum templi
    3:47
  9. 9.
    Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia, Feria VI: Vinea mea electa
    4:31
  10. 10.
    Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia, Feria VI: Tamquam ad latronem
    2:56
  11. 11.
    Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia, Feria VI: Tenebrae factae sunt
    3:52
  12. 12.
    Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia, Feria VI: Animam meam dilectam
    6:25
  13. 13.
    Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia, Feria VI: Tradiderunt me
    2:38
  14. 14.
    Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia, Feria VI: Jesum tradidit implus
    3:47
  15. 15.
    Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia, Feria VI: Caligaverunt oculi mei
    5:28

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