Tenebrae III

Performance sung by The Song Company with choreography by Shaun Parker

It was great to see the third in the trilogy after having helped get them stated with the collaboration between The Song Company and Kate Champion's Force Majeure.

The music is uplifting and passionate, written by Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, (1561 - 1613) murderer in 1590 of his guilty wife and her lover, later took a wife from the d'Este family, rulers of Ferrara, whose musical interests coincided with his own. He wrote a quantity of sacred and secular vocal music and a relatively small number of instrumental pieces. In style his music is unexpected in its sudden changes of tonality, its harmony and its intensity of feeling, qualities that have found particular favour among some modern theorists.

You can hear the music on the Naxos website. Definitely worth hearing.

Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au