Bo Holten has composed more than 100 works including symphonies, solo concertos, works for chorus and orchestra, operas, and musicals. He has also written works for chamber ensembles, song cycles,...
Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, became famous for two reasons: The bloody double murder of his first wife and her lover, and his passionate and erotic view of profane love. The Books of Madrigals...
Published together in 1611, Gesualdo's Fifth and Sixth Books of Madrigals can be seen as musical 'twins', concluding a collection of madrigals by a composer whose boundless invention and creativity...
Gesualdos Second Book of Madrigals, performed on this recording by male voices only, is an even more radical study of the themes explored in Volume 1 (8.570548), a continuation as it were of the same...