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Gesualdo

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Gesualdo (Italian) [dʒezuˈaldo]
n
(Biographies / Gesualdo, Carlo, Prince of Venosa (?1560-1613) M, Italian, MUSIC: composer) Carlo (ˈkarlo), Prince of Venosa. ?1560-1613, Italian composer, esp of madrigals


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They will sing a 17th century madrigal by Gesualdo with the rest of the programme comprising music from the 20th century and from mainly English composers including Imogen Holst, Benjamin Britten, Alan Bush, Alan Bullard and Howard Skempton.
Initially the ensemble concentrated mainly on the music of leading Renaissance and Early Baroque composers like Gesualdo, Hassler, Monteverdi, and Schutz.
The same was true of Gesualdo, Craig Armstrong's setting of Ian Rankin's staccato script about the murderous Renaissance composer.
 
 
 
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