{"id":773,"date":"2015-03-13T09:43:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T09:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.ifagiolini.com\/betrayal\/?p=773"},"modified":"2015-03-31T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T09:30:45","slug":"gesualdo-does-comic-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ifagiolini.com\/betrayal\/gesualdo-does-comic-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Gesualdo does Comic Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gesualdo does Comic Relief<\/strong><\/p>\n

If there’s one thing Gesualdo didn’t do much, it was comedy. He was lampooned as a cuckold, sometimes ridiculed for his music (Dr. Burney accused him of ‘perpetual embarrassments’), and his harmonic twists<\/a> might even cause occasional gasps of surprise, but his plangeant suspensions, mournful tones and accusatory texts hardly line him up for a commedia <\/em>award.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, in the spirit of Red Nose Day<\/a> and, perhaps, seeking some attention for our thematically inappropriate crime drama, music director Robert Hollingworth will be on BBC Radio 3’s<\/a> In Tune<\/em> today (13 March), armed with a musical joke by Gesualdo himself. The full programme starts at 4.30pm: Robert is expected to be on a little before or after 5pm.<\/p>\n

Robert’s previous appearances on In Tune<\/em> include April 1st, when he sang an item by one ‘Giorgio Formbio’, called Quando lavo i vetri<\/em>. It included a verse or two at Gesualdo’s expense:<\/p>\n

When young Gesualdo was first wed<\/p>\n

My how he was glad<\/p>\n

he loved his gorgeous missus<\/p>\n

’til he found out she’d been had.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

The dashing young duke Andria<\/p>\n

surprised her in her large boudoir,<\/p>\n

I watched him as he went too far,<\/p>\n

When I’m cleaning windows.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Gesualdo found out, oh my God,<\/p>\n

he killed her and cut up her bod<\/p>\n

while wearing her nightdress, that’s odd,<\/p>\n

when I’m cleaning windows.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

A sample of the ditty can still be heard of the Radio 3 website<\/a>. (In point of fact, the nightdress was worn by the Duke of Andria – he was found in it, mangled and bloodstained, the morning after.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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