In the video below we hear Gesualdo’s setting of “O vos omnes” from the middle of the Holy Saturday reponsories. Gesualdo’s iconoclastic style, while muted in a sacred setting, remains intact in this music. Listen as you read the text and notice how Gesulado shifts color and texture fluently as he treats each bit of [...]

In addition to Paul Crabtree’s Tenebræ Responsories, BCE is performing a half-dozen other works from the extensive Tenebræ repertory. Like most examples in this enormous body of music, they are all in Latin, and NB will explore them in more depth this week. To begin, let’s look at the music that come to us from around [...]