David A This is a ballet consisting of orchestrations of Gesualdo madrigals. The music is much more than an “arrangement”. Stravinsky re-imagines Gesualdo’s music through his unique and unparalleled ear. Listen to his ballet “Agon” and compare the remarkably different world it inhabits with this work to understand Stravinsky’s ability to create sound worlds that are always unique yet differ in every one of his compositions. Enjoy!
@@tomdis8637 Thank you Tom for sharing your knowledge with me. I will revisit Agon as you suggest (long time since I heard it), I thought I had most, if not all, of Stravinsky's music on CD but I obviously have a gap here. Wish it went on longer!!!!!! Thanks again friend.
@@DavidA-ps1qr You're welcome. So nice to encounter such a gracious person on the Internet! "Agon" is truly an amazing work. In it, Stravinsky manages to bring four of his "mistresses" together without quarreling - twelve-tone technique, ballet, love of classical music forms, and his deep interest in music of the Renaissance. Give "Canticum Sacrum" a listen as well...another "four mistresses" work - his renewed faith in God, Renaissance vocal forms and styles, again, twelve-tone technique, and a unique framework of abstract textures and colors. Enjoy, friend!
My father, Richard Robinson, worked with Stravinsky on the Gesualdo recording with Aldous Huxley. As a small child at the time, I can still remember my father and mother rehearsing in the house before Daddy went to the recording studio. He was the tenor in those fantastic works.
Sublime, powerful music!🌹🌹🌹
Gesualdo + Stravinsky = Maravilla. Gracias por compartir.
Gesualdo was always for me a harmonical genius.
Wow first reaction shock basito. Wow fra non supera però DPG
Surely this is Gesualdo di Venosa's music merely arranged by Stravinsky.
David A This is a ballet consisting of orchestrations of Gesualdo madrigals. The music is much more than an “arrangement”. Stravinsky re-imagines Gesualdo’s music through his unique and unparalleled ear. Listen to his ballet “Agon” and compare the remarkably different world it inhabits with this work to understand Stravinsky’s ability to create sound worlds that are always unique yet differ in every one of his compositions. Enjoy!
@@tomdis8637 Thank you Tom for sharing your knowledge with me. I will revisit Agon as you suggest (long time since I heard it), I thought I had most, if not all, of Stravinsky's music on CD but I obviously have a gap here. Wish it went on longer!!!!!! Thanks again friend.
@@DavidA-ps1qr You're welcome. So nice to encounter such a gracious person on the Internet! "Agon" is truly an amazing work. In it, Stravinsky manages to bring four of his "mistresses" together without quarreling - twelve-tone technique, ballet, love of classical music forms, and his deep interest in music of the Renaissance. Give "Canticum Sacrum" a listen as well...another "four mistresses" work - his renewed faith in God, Renaissance vocal forms and styles, again, twelve-tone technique, and a unique framework of abstract textures and colors. Enjoy, friend!
My father, Richard Robinson, worked with Stravinsky on the Gesualdo recording with Aldous Huxley. As a small child at the time, I can still remember my father and mother rehearsing in the house before Daddy went to the recording studio. He was the tenor in those fantastic works.