Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday
The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park (conductor)
CDA68348
The expressive extremity of the music and the notoriety of the life seem inextricably bound together where Gesualdo is concerned. Here, his Maundy Thursday Tenebrae Responsories provide the climax of a programme which opens with an astonishingly fine rendition of the Tallis Lamentations.