Sutilezas y rigor en los madrigales de Carlo Gesualdo

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 08 June 2019

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Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 7 June 2019

de Lassus, Concupiscendo concupiscit

Nenna, Candida man ti bacio

Nenna, Se taccio il duol s’avanza

Monteverdi, O come è gran martire

Rore, Ancor che col partire

Marenzio, Non è questa la mano

Rossi, Alma afflitta, che fai?

Rossi, Occhi, un tempo mia vita

Gesualdo, Maria, mater gratiae

Gesualdo, Reminiscere miserationum

Gesualdo, Madrigali a cinque voci, libro secondo

Les Arts Florissants

Paul Agnew, Conductor

Les Arts Florissants play an abbreviated Christmas Oratorio in Paris

Simon Thompson, 13th December

Vigour and vibrato: Les Arts Florissant bring gallic refinement to Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at the Philharmonie de Paris.

****1

Gesualdo Passione with Les Arts Florissants

David Karlin, 16th October

Fusing the Renaissance polyphony of Les Arts Florissants with the contemporary dance of Compagnie Amala Dianor was an ambitious experiment, which displayed great virtues but didn't quite come off.

***11

Pop goes Purcell: Les Arts Flo serve up an intoxicating cocktail

Michelle Assay, 11th July

The Toronto Summer Music Festival opens with Les Arts Florissants’ enchanting performance of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, featuring the singers of Le Jardin des voix and the dancers of Compagnie Käfig.

*****

Epiphany meditation from Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants

David Karlin, 5th January

In the intimate setting of Lauenen Church, Agnew and Les Arts Florissants introduce us to the austere sound world of Marc-Antoine Charpentier and other French composers of 17th-century sacred music.

***11

Handel's pastoral sings, dances and laughs at the Barbican

Roy Westbrook, 14th March

William Christie directs with all his customary close involvement, and profound belief in the work in hand.

****1

Les Arts Florissants dazzle in Handel’s Partenope in Lucerne

Laura Servidei, 3rd September

William Christie leads his legendary orchestra and a group of young singers in a successful performance of Handel’s semi-serious opera.

***11

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Leonardo Mattana Ereño

Leonardo Mattana (1988) es Doctor en filosofía por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. También ha cursado estudios de piano, composición, teoría musical e historia de la música en el conservatorio de Sassari (Italia). Sus pasiones musicales son trasversales, privilegiando la música sinfónica y de cámara, pero sobre todo, buscando siempre en la experiencia estética de la música elementos de reflexión.

Sutilezas y rigor en los madrigales de Carlo Gesualdo con Paul Agnew y Les Arts Florsissants