SDG736
Release date: 18th April 2025
Monteverdi Choir
Jonathan Sells
Producer: Nicholas Parker
Engineer: Mike Hatch
Bruckner & Gesualdo: Motets
£7.00 – £12.99
Description
Recorded live in concert in October 2024, this release marks the Monteverdi Choir’s 60th birthday and the 200th anniversary of Bruckner’s birth with an album that combines his celebrated a cappella motets with the sacred motets of Carlo Gesualdo (1566 – 1613).
Performed in 2024 by the Monteverdi Choir in Ely, Oxford and the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich under conductor Jonathan Sells, the album brings alive the tormented passion of both composers’ music.
Monteverdi Choir
Jonathan Sells
Producer: Nicholas Parker
Engineer: Mike Hatch
Release date: 18 April 2025
“They’re back, thank goodness; I’ve been missing the Monteverdi Choir of late…I’m pleased to report that this first recording with Jonathan Sells is brilliant…The Monteverdi Choir sing [the motets] with a ravishing blend of precision and warmth such that the Ave Maria and Os justi, in particular, must be among the finest accounts we have on record.” – Gramophone
| Palestrina arr. Wagner | Stabat mater |
| Gesualdo | Illumina faciem tuam |
| Bruckner | Christus factus est WAB 11 |
| Gesualdo | Ave dulcissima Maria |
| Bruckner | Ave Maria WAB 6 |
| Lotti | Crucifixus a 8 |
| Gesualdo | Tribulationem et dolorem |
| Bruckner | Os justi WAB 30 |
| Gesualdo | O vos omnes |
| Bruckner | Salvum fac populum tuum WAB 40 |
| Gesualdo | Peccantem me quotidie |
| Bruckner | Vexilla regis WAB 51 |
| Gesualdo | Laboravi in gemitu meo |
| Bruckner | Locus iste WAB 23 |
