Gesualdo - Madrigaux & Chants Sacrés

Gesualdo - Madrigaux & Chants Sacrés - Madrigali & Sacrae Cantiones

(Gesualdo: Five Madrigals - Five Motets for five and six voices)
Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir.
Harmonia mundi « Deller Recordings » DR 203 [LP]
Harmonia mundi DR 203 / HMU 203 [LP / sleeve]
Harmonia mundi « Musique d'Abord » HM 203 [LP]
Harmonia mundi « Musique d'Abord » HM 40 203 [Cass.]
Harmonia mundi « Black Label » HM 203 / HMB 203 [LP / sleeve]
RCA « Victrola » VIC 1364 (LP, mono, USA)
RCA « Victrola » VICS 1364 (LP, stereo, USA)

Contents:

Madrigaux - Madrigals - Madrigale

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince de Venosa

1. Ecco, morirò dunque !; Hai, già mi discoloro
2. Io tacerò; Invan dunque, o crudele
3. Dolcissima mia vita
4. Itene ò miei sospiri
5. Moro lasso al mio duolo

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Sacrae Cantiones

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince de Venosa

6. Ave, dulcissima Maria
7. O vos omnes
8. Ave, Regina coelorum
9. O crux benedicta
10. Hei mihi, Domine

Performers:
The Deller Consort
Mary Thomas (soprano), Sally Le Sage (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Phillip Todd (tenor), Max Worthley (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
Alfred Deller, dir.

Playing time: 24' 53" + 20' 56" = 45' 49"

Recording site and date:
Unknown [1966];
Rel.: 1967

Excerpts:
[6]-[10] Harmonia mundi HM 2 473 [LPx2] Polyphonie sacrée de la Renaissance
[6] Musique de tous les temps MTT 49

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 117-22 (may 1967), 207-38 (may 1976 (as HMU 203)

Comments:
Information from LP (Harmonia mundi).
Date of recording is as stated in Jean-Luc Tingaud « Alfred Deller, le contre-ténor », édition Josette Lyon, p. 142.

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