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This absorbing project finds Australian composer Brett Dean and Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tuur drawing inspiration in very different ways from the music, life and times of Carlo Gesualdo, and juxtaposes these reflections with Gesualdos own music. Deans Carlo (composed 1997) begins with pure Gesualdo from the 6th Book of Madrigals, then gradually enters a very 20th century sound-world. Through use of both sampled and real- time voices as well as increasingly intense strings Dean paints a hallucinatory picture of the Prince of Verona s state of mind as he is driven toward his violent crimes of passion. Erkki Sven Tuurs L ombra di Gesualdo references the Gesualdo motet O crux benedicta from the Sacrae Cantiones, and Gesualdos piece is also heard in an arrangement for strings by Tuur. The program is completed by Tuurs Psalmody.

Recorded February 2014 at The Taallinn Methodist Church
Recording Engineer: Maido Maadik
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Produced by Manfred Eicher