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Hedvig Mollestad's music changed direction with 2020's Ekhidna, a conceptual offering about the Greek goddess.

Der 1660 auf Sizilien geborene Alessandro Scarlatti gilt als "Erneuerer der Barockmusik". Er war Vater von neun Söhnen, darunter Domenico und Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, die ebenfalls Komponisten wurden. Vor allem als Opernkomponist bekannt, hat er im Laufe seines Opernschaffens die Dimensionen dieser Form kontinuierlich ausgeweitet und den Anteil des Orchesters immer mehr verstärkt.

Der 1660 auf Sizilien geborene Alessandro Scarlatti gilt als "Erneuerer der Barockmusik". Er war Vater von neun Söhnen, darunter Domenico und Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, die ebenfalls Komponisten wurden.

Here is the very first album ever recorded by Michel Corboz for Erato, just a few months after he got to know the legendary producer Michel Garcin in a choral competition – a decisive encounter that would become one of the most fruitful collaborations in the history of early music.

From a musical point of view, Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, was a lutenist and composer. His madrigals used an intense chromaticism that was a distinctive part of his style and which did not appear again until the late 19th century. However, he is perhaps best known for his murderous past; his discovery, in 1590, that his wife had been having a twoyear affair had deadly consequences for both the woman and her lover. Being a nobleman, Gesualdo was, of course, immune from prosecution.

There is something deeply troubling and inscrutable in Carlo Gesualdo’s music, something that any listener, even the most inexpert one, will unfailingly experience.This most particularly holds for Tenebrae Responsoria (1611), his definitive statement, his monument, his testament. It is as if this work, firmly embedded in the framework of liturgy for the Holy Week and reaching back to the practices of the Gregorian chant, would constantly extend over its boundaries and transgress its time and setting, immediately addressing modernity, disturbing all the rules in a severe tension, reaching into something that borders on chaos and madness, within the very order and religious devotion it fully espouses.Graindelavoix, the groundbreaking ensemble based in Antwerp and directed by Bjorn Schmelzer, are the ideal performers for this disquieting repertoire which originally was sung at Gesualdo’s castle and with probably only one listener in the audience: Gesualdo himself…

There is something deeply troubling and inscrutable in Carlo Gesualdo’s music, something that any listener, even the most inexpert one, will unfailingly experience. This most particularly holds for Tenebrae Responsoria (1611), his definitive statement, his monument, his testament.