Erkki-Sven Tüür & Brett Dean: Gesualdo

• Carlo Gesualdo de Venosa (1566-1613) – Moro lasso

• Brett Dean (s. 1961) – Carlo

• Carlo Gesualdo de Venosa – O crux benedicta

• Erkki-Sven Tüür (s. 1959) – L'ombra della croce

• Erkki-Sven Tüür – Psalmody

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra

conductor TÕNU KALJUSTE

This absorbing project finds Australian composer Brett Dean and Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür drawing inspiration in very different ways from the music, life and times of Carlo Gesualdo, and juxtaposes these reflections with Gesualdo’s own music. Dean’s Carlo (composed 1997) begins with pure Gesualdo from the 6th Book of Madrigals, then gradually enters a very 20th century sound-world. Erkki Sven Tüür’s L’Ombra di Gesualdo references the Gesualdo motet O crux benedicta from the Cantiones sacrae, and Gesualdo’s piece is also heard in an arrangement for strings by Tüür. The programme is completed by Tüür’s Psalmody.

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