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Carlo Gesualdo

Carlo Gesualdo has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 13 episodes and was first played on 23 October 2014.

Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa (?8 March 1560 – 8 September 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer, lutenist, nobleman, and notorious murderer from the late Renaissance. He is famous for his intensely expressive madrigals, which use a chromatic language not heard again until the 19th century; and he is also famous for committing what are possibly the most famous murders in musical history, of his first wife and her lover.

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
Sabbato Sancto
Gesualdo, The Hilliard Ensemble
ECM Records, ECM New Series1991
Sabbato Sancto
Gesualdo, The Hilliard EnsembleECM Records, ECM New Series1991
Discogs
Toccata Quinta (Cembalo Universale)
Scipione Lacorcia, Carlo Gesualdo Da Venosa, Ettorre De La Marra, Giovanni De Macque, Ascanio Mayone, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Harry van der Kamp
Sony Classical2006
Toccata Quinta (Cembalo Universale)
Scipione Lacorcia, Carlo Gesualdo Da Venosa, Ettorre De La Marra, Giovanni De Macque, Ascanio Mayone, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Harry van der KampSony Classical2006
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Sela Mia Morte Brami
D. Carlo Gesualdo
Arcophon0
Sela Mia Morte Brami
D. Carlo GesualdoArcophon0
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Recessit Pastor
Don Carlo Gesualdo
Columbia Masterworks1962
Recessit Pastor
Don Carlo GesualdoColumbia Masterworks1962
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O Dolorosa Gioia
Don Carlo Gesualdo
Columbia Masterworks1962
O Dolorosa Gioia
Don Carlo GesualdoColumbia Masterworks1962
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O Vos Omnes
Gesualdo, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller
Harmonia Mundi France1971
O Vos Omnes
Gesualdo, Deller Consort, Alfred DellerHarmonia Mundi France1971
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12 Madrigals From Book II
Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Collegium Vocale Köln
CBS Masterworks1990
12 Madrigals From Book II
Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Collegium Vocale KölnCBS Masterworks1990
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O Maria, Vernans Rosa
Scarlatti, Jacques Clément, Carlo Gesualdo, Francesco Cavalli, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
Erato1985
O Maria, Vernans Rosa
Scarlatti, Jacques Clément, Carlo Gesualdo, Francesco Cavalli, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot GardinerErato1985
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Feria Sexta : Troisième Nocturne De L'Office Des Ténèbres Du Vendredi Saint
Carlo Gesualdo Da Venosa
Harmonia Mundi, Deller Recordings0
Feria Sexta : Troisième Nocturne De L'Office Des Ténèbres Du Vendredi Saint
Carlo Gesualdo Da VenosaHarmonia Mundi, Deller Recordings0
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Illumina Faciem Tuam
Gesualdo, The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery
Delphian2016
Illumina Faciem Tuam
Gesualdo, The Marian Consort, Rory McCleeryDelphian2016
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