EXAUDI VOCAL ENSEMBLE - Madrigali (Sealed) (CD)

Gesualdo's late madrigals exert a strange and enduring fascination on the modern musical imagination. Today, when we hear these extraordinary messages of agony and ecstasy, we are drawn by a flame like lovers who cannot let go, into the distortion of chromatic harmony, the emotional overintensity and mysterious otherness of this most enticing figure of early Baroque." James Weeks "I admire EXAUDI, the way she sings creates an experience of innocent (but intellectually grounded) adventure, and it sounds as if the ink is still wet on the pages of Don Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa. Very exciting! Michael Finnissy