The Gesualdo Six - Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday

The expressive extremity of the music and the notoriety of the life seem inextricably bound together where Gesualdo is concerned. Here, his Maundy Thursday Tenebrae Responsories provide the climax of a program which opens with an astonishingly fine rendition of the Tallis Lamentations.