Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa: Tenebrae I

Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa: « Leçons de Ténèbres », Volume 1.
Feria Quinta (Tenebrae I)
Responsories of the Office of Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday, First, second & third Nocturnes
The Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir.
Harmonia mundi « Deller Recordings » HMD 220 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HM 220 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HM 230 [LP]
Harmonia mundi « Musique d'Abord » HM 220 [LP]
Harmonia mundi « Musique d'Abord » HMA 55 220 / HM 220 [Sleeve / LP]
Harmonia mundi « Musique d'Abord » HMA 190 220 [CD]
Musical Heritage Society MHS 3703 [LP]

Contents:

    Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa: Feria Quinta. In Coena Domini

    In j. Noct.
  1. Resp. 1: In monte Oliveti oravit ad Patrem
    Versus: Vigilate
  2. Resp. 2: Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem
    Versus: Ecce appropinquat hora
  3. Resp. 3: Ecce vidimus eum non habentem speciem neque decorem
    Versus: Vere languores nostros ipse tulit
    4. In ij. Noct.
  4. Resp. 4: Amicus meus osculi me tradidit signo
    Versus: Bonum erat ei
  5. Resp. 5: Judas mercator pessimus osculo
    Versus: Melius illi erat

    6. —
  6. Resp. 6: Unus ex discipulis meis me tradet hodie
    Versus: Qui intigit mecum manum in paropside
    7. In iij. Noct.
  7. Resp. 7: Eram quasi agnus innocens
    Versus: Verbum iniquum mandaverunt adversum me
  8. Resp. 8: Una hora non potuisti vigilare mecum, qui exhortabamini mori pro me
    Versus: Quid dormitis ?
  9. Resp. 9: Seniores populi consilium fecerunt
    Versus: Collegerunt pontifices et pharisaei concilium

Performers:
The Deller Consort
Honor Sheppard (soprano), Christina Clarke (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Mark Deller (counter-tenor), John Buttrey (tenor), Neil Jenkins (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone), Norman Platt (baritone)
Alfred Deller, dir.

Playing time: 26' 18" + 26' 45" = 53' 03"

Recording site and date:
Boughton Aluph All Saints, Kent [1970];
Rel.: 1970

Compilation
Harmonia mundi HMU 220 / HMD 220, HM 230 / HMD 230, HMU 240 / HMD 240, HMD 250 [LPx3 (Sleeve / LP)] Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa: « Leçons de Ténèbres », Volume 1-4
Musical Heritage Society MHS 3703 / 3817 [LPx2] Carlo Gesualdo: Tenebrae I-II

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 152-37 (dec. 1970)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 56/670-1599 (march 1979, as HMU 220)

Comments:
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Pierre-F. Roberge