This Apex reissue of Gesualdo recordings that originally came out on Erato in Europe is not just an example of a major label repackaging something from the backmost shelf for a quick buck, though it looks like one. These performances are by one of the pioneering and truly great vocal specialist groups in early music, A Sei Voci, a group whose future is in some doubt, as its leader and co-founder Bernard Fabre-Garrus died suddenly less than two hours before a concert in August 2006. These recordings of Don Carlo Gesualdo's ...
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This Apex reissue of Gesualdo recordings that originally came out on Erato in Europe is not just an example of a major label repackaging something from the backmost shelf for a quick buck, though it looks like one. These performances are by one of the pioneering and truly great vocal specialist groups in early music, A Sei Voci, a group whose future is in some doubt, as its leader and co-founder Bernard Fabre-Garrus died suddenly less than two hours before a concert in August 2006. These recordings of Don Carlo Gesualdo's Responsories were among the first made of this literature in a comprehensive sense and originally issued on LPs in the mid-'80s. Since then, the Hilliard Ensemble, the Tallis Scholars, BBC Singers, and the King's Singers have all passed this way, and it is hard to say that A Sei Voci's Gesualdo Responsories continue to outperform some of these others, though the recordings have held up surprisingly well. Pitch is sometimes wavery and changes with tape edits, vowel sounds are not...
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Add this copy of Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories; Benedictus; Miserere to cart. $13.29, like new condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Apex.
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