People are always going on about Carlo Gesualdo's chromaticism but he never used it to more worthy effect or less self indulgently than it is used in this humane masterpiece expressing the deepest grief.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Going To Take The Rest of This Horrible Year Off
A day early but here is Giaches De Wert's terrifying setting of the Vox in Rama passage from the gospel according to Matthew
People are always going on about Carlo Gesualdo's chromaticism but he never used it to more worthy effect or less self indulgently than it is used in this humane masterpiece expressing the deepest grief.
People are always going on about Carlo Gesualdo's chromaticism but he never used it to more worthy effect or less self indulgently than it is used in this humane masterpiece expressing the deepest grief.
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