[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 10 February 2013
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As we commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Gesualdo in 2013, one of his last works still remains to be rediscovered: the second book of Sacrae Cantiones, motets for six and seven voices, of which the bassus and sextus parts have, alas, disappeared. Thanks to his unrelenting and methodical research, James Wood has managed to reconstruct the score for the first time as it might have been sung in 1603. This fascinating investigation took three years to complete; here is the result.
Gesualdo: Sacrae Cantiones, Liber Secundus, a6 e a7, 1603
Reconstructed by James Wood