Gesualdo: Sacræ Cantiones Il Pomo d'Oro, Giuseppe Maletto

• Carlo Gesualdo (1566 - 1613): Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus:
• 1 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Ave Regina cœlorum 03:40
• 2 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Venit lumen tuum 02:32
• 3 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Ave, dulcissima Maria 04:54
• 4 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Reminiscere miserationum tuarum 03:35
• 5 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Dignare me laudare te 02:46
• 6 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Sancti Spiritus, Domine 02:02
• 7 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Domine, ne despicias deprecationem meam 03:19
• 8 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Hei mihi Domine 03:24
• 9 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Laboravi in gemitu meo 03:41
• 10 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Peccantem me quotidie 05:03
• 11 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: O vos omnes 03:43
• 12 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Exaudi, Deus, deprecationem meam 03:04
• 13 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Precibus et meritis 02:59
• 14 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: O Crux benedicta 03:28
• 15 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Tribularer si nescirem 03:22
• 16 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Deus, refugium et virtus 03:13
• 17 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Tribulationem et dolorem 03:42
• 18 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Illumina faciem tuam 03:21
• 19 Gesualdo: Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Maria, mater gratiæ 03:35
• Total Runtime 01:05:23

Info for Gesualdo: Sacræ Cantiones

Well established in the field of historically informed performance, the Italian ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro has recently expanded: it now includes a choir, and this is its first solo recording.

Conducted by Giuseppe Maletto, the ensemble presents Gesualdo’s fascinating first book of Sacræ Cantiones.

Less well known than his madrigals, the nineteen five-part motets that make up this work explore the theme of repentance through the Liturgy of Penance and the figure of the Virgin Mary.

The painfully voluptuous chromaticism and the expressive intensity and refinement of the lines make this work one of the most singular of that period.

Gesualdo’s interpretation of the liturgical text is intensely dramatic and highly personal.

Il Pomo d’Oro renders perfectly the mysterious beauty of this music.

il Pomo d'Oro Choir
Giuseppe Maletto, conductor

Giuseppe Maletto
engages in an intense activity as a professional singer, dedicating himself principally to medieval and renaissance polyphony and to the music of Claudio Monteverdi. La Venexiana, La Petite Bande, Hespèrion XXI, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Concerto Italiano, and Mala Punica are only a few of the prestigious groups with which he collaborates, participating in numerous concert tours in Europe, the United States, Israel, Japan, and Argentina. He has recorded over 40 CDs, several of which have received important awards, such as the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Prix Cecilia, Diapason d’Or de l’Année, the Premio Cini and the Gramophone Award.

In addition to Cantica Symphonia’s specialization in medieval and renaissance repertoire Maletto has also led performances of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers and the Missa In illo tempore, Carissimi’s Jephté, Odes and Anthems by Purcell, and several of Bach’s Cantatas. He has taught courses at the Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale in Saluzzo (Italy), at the Corso Internazionale di Musica Antica in Polizzi Generosa (Italy), and has held a seminar on the interpretation of the music of Monteverdi at the Novosibirsk Conservatory (Russia).

il Pomo d'Oro
In the year 2022, the ensemble il Pomo d’Oro is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Founded in 2012 by Giulio D’Alessio and Gesine Lübben, it soon established itself as an ensemble of outstanding quality in the field of historically informed performance. Il pomo d’Oro looks back on 10 years of intense concert activity worldwide and an impressive list of 35 recordings, many of them award winning.

The ensemble is particularly known and sought after as a partner of singers, be it for solo recitals or entire operas in performance and recording. In 2022, il Pomo d’Oro is touring the new programs of Joyce DiDonato, EDEN, and Jakub Jozef Orlinski, Anima Eterna, led by the main conductors of the ensemble, Maxim Emelyanychev (chief conductor), and Francesco Corti (chief guest conductor). The last ‘opera’ production with a stellar cast was Handel’s oratorio Theodora in November 2021, presenting for the first time the new vocal ensemble il Pomo d’Oro. Further operas and oratorios, mainly by Handel, are scheduled for the coming seasons.

In the field of instrumental music, the ensemble focuses on projects with Maxim Emelyanychev conducting and Francesco Corti as soloist and conductor (Bach harpsichord concertos). Zefira Valova, the concert master of il Pomo d’Oro, also appears as a violin soloist in a new album with works by Benda, Graun a.o., soon to be released.

il Pomo d’Oro is official ambassador of El Sistema Greece, a humanitarian project to provide free musical education to children in Greek refugee camps.

The ‘il Pomo d’Oro Academy‘ was launched online during the first wave of the Covid 19 pandemic, offering free music lessons to music students worldwide.

The Academy is now collaborating with El Sistema Venezuela, offering online masterclasses in Baroque music interpretation in cooperation with the “Inocente Carreño Itinerant Conservatory” in Caracas to the Baroque music ensembles of the El Sistema movement.

In its future residence in Monte San Savino, Italy, the il Pomo d’Oro Academy will host instrumental and vocal masterclasses, workshops and musical education for children.

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