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This is a journal for Betrayal: a polyphonic crime drama, the long-awaited new collaboration between vocal ensemble I Fagiolini and director John La Bouchardière.
Scroll down for updates on the project, with news about performances, interviews and insights into the creative process, and background information on Gesualdo, his life and music. As the premiere approaches, we’ll also provide some clues that can be used during the show itself.
Betrayal: a polyphonic crime drama will be presented by Cambridge Early Music Festival at The Junction. Performances are as follows: Wednesday, 20 May – 20:00 Thursday, 21 May – 20:00 Friday [...]
Thoughts on Gesualdo and his music: part six Robert Hollingworth Rehearsing such pieces, one is struck by the extremely fine craftsmanship involved, but their realisation is like putting Escher [...]
Thoughts on Gesualdo and his music: part five Robert Hollingworth Despite being employed at the nearby musically conservative court of Mantua, Giaches de Wert directed his eighth book of mad [...]
Thoughts on Gesualdo and his music: part four Robert Hollingworth Also in the 1550s and also probably at Ferrara, the Netherlander Cipriano da Rore wrote his few harmonically experimental madrig [...]
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Thoughts on Gesualdo and his music: part three Robert Hollingworth The home of such harmonic experimentation was the court of Ferrara whose Duke was obsessed with music. The court had a histor [...]