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Gesualdo’s *Moro, lasso, al mio duolo* is a madrigal from Book VI of his complete collection. Composed in 1611, this piece showcases the composer's intense chromaticism and dramatic use of dissonance, creating a powerfully emotive lament. It represents Gesualdo’s most radical exploration of musical...
From Gesualdo's fifth book (1611), noted for extreme harmonic progressions and expressive chromaticism conveying the pain of beauty's departure.
From Gesualdo's fifth book (1611), a madrigal celebrated for its lush chromaticism and affective text-setting characteristic of his mature compositional style.
From Gesualdo's fifth book (1611), notable for extreme chromaticism and dissonant harmonies depicting the text's themes of weeping and pleading for mercy.
From Gesualdo's fourth book (1596), a five-voice madrigal on the anguish of parting, notable for his characteristic chromatic word-painting and abrupt harmonic shifts.
From Gesualdo's fifth book (1611), a madrigal exploring the paradox of painful joy through his characteristic dissonant chromaticism and expressive text setting.
From Gesualdo's fourth book (1596), a madrigal about the beloved's bright eyes, distinguished by striking chromatic harmonies and affective word-painting.
From Gesualdo's fifth book (1611), a madrigal with intense chromatic language and dissonant harmonies depicting death's scattering of earthly things.
Madrigal from Gesualdo's Sixth and final Book (1611), representing the most uncompromising expression of his radical chromaticism and dissonance in the Italian madrigal tradition.
From Gesualdo's fourth book (1596), exemplifying his mature style through stark contrasts between diatonic passages and intense chromatic dissonance.
From Gesualdo's third book (1595), an earlier example of his developing chromatic style, setting a text urging the beloved to dry her beautiful eyes.
From Gesualdo's sixth book (1611), among his final published madrigals, showcasing his most advanced and uncompromising chromatic harmonic language.
Madrigal from Gesualdo's Third Book (1595), marking an intensification of his characteristic style with abrupt harmonic shifts deployed to mirror extremes of poetic sentiment.
Madrigal from Gesualdo's Second Book (1594), showing the Prince of Venosa's early exploration of the dissonant chromatic idiom he would push to extremes in later publications.
Madrigal from Carlo Gesualdo's First Book (1594), composed before his turn to radical chromaticism and reflecting the conventional late-Renaissance harmonic style of the period.
