Music

Madrigali, libri quinto & sesto


Reviews (12)


RBB Kultur

d. 28. Oct. 2021

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Bernhard Schrammek

d. 28. Oct. 2021

"Das Collegium Vocale Gent unter Leitung seines Gründers Philippe Herreweghe hat nun das späte 5. Madrigalbuch von Gesualdo neu eingespielt, in dem es von aussergewöhnlicher Harmonik sowie überraschenden Tonarten- und Modiwechsel nur so wimmelt. Mit sechs erlesenen Solisten erreicht Herreweghe einen Klang, der an Expressivität, Wortausdeutung und Vokalqualität nur schwer zu übertreffen ist. Eine neue Referenzaufnahme!".


Jyllands-posten

d. 25. May 2012

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Jens Povlsen

d. 25. May 2012

"Mens den stejlende kromatik løfter den ene berusende harmoni efter den anden, indser man, at det er lidt af en åbenbaring at lægge øre til det erfarne ensembles smidige, meditative kæder af Gesualdos excentriske skønhed. En sjælden nydelse".


BBC music magazine

2012 July

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Anthony Pryer

2012 July

"Few vocalists if any could match this group for their tuning ... When it comes to the words, it may be that these singers are too North European to capture the erotic drama of the texts ... Even so, there are some fine tracks".


Fono Forum

2022 Januar

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Reinmar Emans

2022 Januar

"Ohne Zweifel bietet Philippe Herreweghe mit seinem auf sechs Sänger heruntergefahrenen Collegium eine sehr schöne und elegante Lesart vom fünften Madrigalbuch des eigenwilligen Fürsten von Venosa ... Das Collegium bietet einen sehr elaborierten Gemeinschaftsklang, bei dem insbesondere satztechnische Details fokussiert werden".


BBC music magazine

2022 January

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Jeremy Pound

2022 January

"These one-to-a-part performances are perfect for navigating the gnarly dissonances and extreme expression of Italy's controversial Renaissance great, as emotions run from ecstacy to deepest pain".


BBC music magazine

2023 May

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Steve Wright (musikanmelder)

2023 May

"Often centring on death or unhappy love, Gesualdo's madrigals deploy wild chromatic developments and have a sparse, haunting quality. Here, the singers zone in on Gesualdo's final two anthologies (perhaps the rawest of all) with their usual crystalline clarity".


Diapason

2023 avril

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Frédéric Degroote

2023 avril


Fono Forum

2023 August

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Susanne Benda

2023 August

"Eine quicklebendige Interpretation mit einer exzellenten Balance zwischen detaillierter Textausdeutung und weiten musikalischen Bögen, Aufregung und Beruhigung, Forte und Piano. Dabei liegt der Schwerpunkt mehr auf individueller Artikulation als auf kollektiver Bündelung".


The gramophone

2012 July

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Fabrice Fitch

2012 July

"The Hilliards seem to have found a new lease of life recently. Why indeed not search for dark light in this most paradoxical music?".


Diapason

2005 mai

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Denis Morrier

2005 mai

"Vurdering: Diapason d'or" - "Ce ne sont pas les hardiesses ni la violence expressive qui frappent dans cette interprétation, mais bien au contraire la suavité morbide du contrepoint et la stylisation expressive de la poésie madrigalesque".


International record review

2005 May

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Simon Heighes

2005 May

"La Venexiana understand this music to perfection ... Tuning in this highly chromatic music is notoriously difficult, but La Venexiana sound very relaxed about it all, taking the dissonances in their stride and rejoicing in Gesualdo's frequent and sudden changes from major to minor ... A distinguished follow-up to La Venexiana's outstanding recording of Gesualdo's Fourth Book of Madrigals for Glossa".


The gramophone

2023 May

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Fabrice Fitch

2023 May

"Recording of the month: At the end of a multi-volume survey such as this, one inevitably reflects on the whole project as much as the final instalment ... Les Arts Florissants ... achieve admirably clarity of form and argument in nearly every case ... Agnew is surely right to insist on the music's ability to stand on its own terms. It bears repeating: those who have thought of Gesualdo as a one-trick pony ('Moro lasso' and all that - ) now have more than six hours' evidence to the contrary".