Composers with a criminal record, part 1.
Today, the first part of our mini-series about composers with a criminal record. When we listen to some divine music, it’s hard to imagine that the people that wrote it, were only human – sometimes humans with dark sides and all.
Yet they do exist, and today we’re putting the spotlight on them.
Nicolas Gombert (ca.1495-ca.1560)
1. Magnificat sexti et primi toni
Cappella Mariana conducted by Vojtěch Semerád
(CD Song of songs – Cappella Mariana, Etcetera KTC 1602)
Carlo Gesualdo (ca. 1561–1613)
2. Tenebrae factae sunt
3. Velum templi scissum est
4. O vos omnes
Pomerium Musices conducted by Alexander Blachly
(CD The Mannerist Revolution, Dorian Recordings DOR 90154)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
From ‘Das Wohltemperierte Klavier’ (BWV 846-861):
5. Prelude and Fuga in C flat minor, BWV 849
6. Prelude and Fuga in E flat minor, BWV 853
Glenn Gould, piano
(CD Glenn Gould – Bach Wohltemperierte Clavier, CBS Records M 3K 42266)
Carlo Gesualdo
7. Tristis est anima mea
8. Io taceró
Pomerium Musices conducted by Alexander Blachly
(CD The Mannerist Revolution, Dorian Recordings DOR 90154)
In image: Don Carlo Gesualdo
