The SCHOLA HEIDELBERG vocal soloists are proficient in diverse vocal styles, from Renaissance polyphony to 21st-century music, blending historical performance practice with contemporary interpretation.
Composer Biography
Claude Vivier, an adopted child, believed in three 'births': his physical birth in Montréal in 1948, his musical birth through Gilles Tremblay in 1968, and his compositional birth with Stockhausen in 1972.
Composer Biography
Michelangelo Rossi, educated by his uncle who was familiar with Gesualdo's madrigals, was famous as a composer of opera and instrumental music, particularly for his chromatic Toccata settima.
Composer Biography
Don Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa, a prince, was known almost exclusively as a composer of madrigals and sacred vocal music, and for his chromatic mannerism.
Compositional Technique
The neurobiologist Hannah Monyer notes that Gesualdo's and Rossi's madrigals feature vivid chromaticism where no two chords are alike, challenging the idea of uniform tuning.
Album & Artwork
The album's title, "Eros und Gewalt" (Eros and Violence), reflects the central theme explored in the vocal works and their poetic foundations.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album suggests that the themes of Eros and violence should be sought within the works themselves, rather than in the composers' biographies.
You might also enjoy...
Giacomo Carissimi & Claudio Monteverdi & Orlando di Lasso
Monteverdi & Gesualdo: Motets & Madrigals
Soulmates
Karl Jenkins: Motets
Christmas with the Shepherds: Morales, Mouton & Stabile
