'This recording excels because it gets exactly right the balance between the mannered, madrigalesque features of the music and the eerie drama and morbidity of the religious story' Anthony Pryer
Gesualdo • Victoria
Gesualdo: Responsories of the Office of Tenebrae for Holy Saturday
Gesualdo: Miserere
Victoria: Lamentations for Holy Saturday
Tenebrae/Nigel Short
DG Archiv 479 0841 67:33 mins
Audio clip: from Gesualdo's Responsories, II. Jerusalem, surge
For a full review pick up a copy of the June issue of BBC Music Magazine
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