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madrigal group (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass) 2.2.2.2+ContraBassoon: 4.2.3.0: Strings
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This is a work in which the orchestra goes into raptures over three of Gesualdo+s wonderful madrigals, dwelling on the extraordinary harmonies, extending the flights of feeling and motion, and deepening the poignancies. In Moro Lasso, the voices sing the entire madrigal through, unaccompanied before the orchestra is engaged. In Mille Volte il Di, the voices present the madrigal in short sections for the orchestra to comment on. In Io Pur Respiro, the song is presented in longer sections. The madrigals are otherwise sung exactly as Gesualdo wrote them. The orchestral music consists entirely of the music of the madrigals; they are metamorphosed in texture, range, tempo, and by repetitions. No extraneous material whatever had been introduced. Moro, Lasso, Al Mio Duolo I die, alas, for all my sorrow and she who could give me life. Ah! how she wounds me and will offer no pity! Oh most painful fate, she who could grant me life renders me death. Mille Vilte Il Di Moro I die a thousand times a day. And you, cruel sighs, care not that in dying I cease not to sigh. And you, cruel soul, afflicted by my grief and yet holding me in it, know that only death can free me from my harsh and bitter state. My sighs and my soul are merciless to me, and only death is pitiful. Io Pur Respiro Am I still Breathing, despite my anguish And heart, art thou still beating, Oh cruel heart unfeeling? Woe! Futile is my yearning to see but once again my beloved! O come, Death, come and take me, rid me of hopeless suffering! And with a single blow end my life and woe. -Gesualdo
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-World Premiere. Spokane Symphony/Donald Thulean. 1979.
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Recorded by The Portland Youth Philharmonic, Donald Thulean, Symphony of Songs, Albany Records CD TROY 160.
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"Here, then, is the music of Avshalomov: lyric, harmonically aware of the worlds which are not the usual ones; the vocal music - more than half his output - grasping the fascinating potentialities of the American language freely and with imagination. These are qualities native to him."-- William Bergsma, Bulletin of the American Composer's Alliance
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