Gesualdo: Silenzio mio. Il quarto libro di madrigali Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe

• Carlo Gesualdo (1566 - 1613): Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto:
• 1 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 1, Luci serene e chiare 03:18
• 2 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 2, Tall’ or sano desio 02:53
• 3 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 3, Io tacerò, ma nel silenzio mio: Prima parte 02:21
• 4 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 3, Io tacerò, ma nel silenzio mio: Seconda parte 02:14
• 5 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 4, Che fai meco, mio cor? 02:10
• 6 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 5, Questa crudele e pia 02:48
• 7 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 6, Or che in gioia: Prima parte 01:00
• 8 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 6, Or che in gioia: Seconda parte 01:56
• 9 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 7, Cor mio, deh, non piangete: Prima parte 01:15
• 10 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 7, Cor mio, deh, non piangete: Seconda parte 02:07
• 11 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 8, Sparge la morte al mio Signor nel viso 04:05
• 12 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 9, Moro, e mentre sospiro: Prima parte 01:15
• 13 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 9, Moro, e mentre sospiro: Seconda parte 01:36
• 14 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 10, Mentre gira costei 02:01
• 15 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 11, A voi, mentre il mio core 02:11
• 16 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 12, Ecco, morirò dunque!: Prima parte 01:09
• 17 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 12, Ecco, morirò dunque!: Seconda parte 01:48
• 18 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 13, Arde ’l mio cor, ed è sì dolce il foco 02:17
• 19 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 14, Se chiudete nel core 02:02
• 20 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 15, Il sol, qual or più splende: Prima parte 00:59
• 21 Gesualdo: Madrigali a cinque voici, Libro quarto: No. 15, Il sol, qual or più splende: Seconda parte 02:01
• Total Runtime 43:26

Info for Gesualdo: Silenzio mio. Il quarto libro di madrigali

Collegium Vocale Gent and its founder Philippe Herreweghe continue their recordings of the works of Carlo Gesualdo with ‘Silenzio Mio’, which contains the Fourth Book of Madrigals, published in 1596. Regarded as one of the most eccentric composers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, but also one of the most creative, he experiments here with new melodic and harmonic effects that enthralled listeners of the time. These innovations are applied to poems by Alessandro Guarini and several anonymous writers, all of which focus on the expression of personal feelings, particularly a ‘pathos’ new on the literary scene. A veritable historical testimony to the artistic turning point that occurred at the court of Ferrara in the early seventeenth century, this fourth book takes its place in the long-term recording project of Collegium Vocale, hailed by critics for its ‘homogeneity, contrapuntal transparency and luminosity, strikingly evident even in the most tormented pieces’ (Diapason).

Collegium Vocale Gent
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor

Collegium Vocale Gent
In 2010, Collegium Vocale Gent celebrated its founding forty years before, by a group of friends studying at the University of Ghent, on Philippe Herreweghe’s initiative. They were one of the first ensembles to use new ideas about baroque performance practice in vocal music. Their authentic, text-oriented and rhetorical approach gave the ensemble the transparent sound with which it would acquire world fame and perform at the major concert venues and music festivals of Europe, Israel, the United States, Russia, South America, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.

In recent years, Collegium Vocale Gent has grown organically into an extremely flexible ensemble whose wide repertoire encompasses a range of different stylistic periods. Its greatest strength is its ability to assemble the ideal performing forces for any project. Music from the Renaissance, for example, is performed by an ensemble of six to twelve singers. German Baroque music, particularly J.S. Bach’s vocal works, quickly became a speciality of the group and is still the jewel in its crown. Today Collegium Vocale performs this music with a small ensemble in which the singers take both the chorus and solo parts. Collegium Vocale is also specializing more and more in the Romantic, modern and contemporary oratorio repertoires. To this end, Collegium Vocale Gent entered into a partnership with the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and since 2011 enjoys the support of the European Union’s Cultural Programme. The result is a shared symphonic choir recruiting singers from all of Europe, in which experienced singers stand alongside young talent. Moreover, Collegium Vocale Gent fulfils an important educational position.

Besides using its own baroque orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent works with several historically informed instrumental ensembles to perform these projects, including the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Freiburger Barockorchester and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. It also works with prominent symphony orchestras such as deFilharmonie (Royal Flemish Philharmonic), the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. The ensemble has worked with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sigiswald Kuijken, René Jacobs, Paul Van Nevel, Iván Fischer, Marcus Creed, Kaspars Putnins, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and many others leading conductors.

Under Philippe Herreweghe’s direction, Collegium Vocale Gent has built up an impressive discography with more than 80 recordings, most of them with the Harmonia Mundi France and Virgin Classics labels. In 2010, Philippe Herreweghe started his own label φ (phi) in order to give himself full artistic freedom to build up a rich and varied catalogue. In 2011-2012 a new cd with Motets by J.S.Bach (LHI 002) was released, followed by a recording of Choral works by Johannes Brahms (LPH 003) , a new recording of Bach’s Mass in B minor (LPH 004) and T.Lde Victoria’s Officium defunctorum (LPH 005).

Collegium Vocale Gent enjoys the financial support of the Flemish Community, the Province of East Flanders and the city of Ghent. In 2011 the ensemble became Ambassador of the European Union.

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