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Gesualdo & Beyond


Gesualdo's hyper-expressive music as starting point for an evening full of emotional extremes

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Oct 21 2021

Vibrant programme with the theme of war and violence, compiled by our violinist Joseph Puglia, with Gesualdo (1566-1613) as the starting point.

In the & Beyond series, we take one composer at a time as our starting point, looking at their significance in life, their relationships with composers in subsequent periods and how they inspired one another. The evening will feature a scintillating programme of intense ensemble playing, overseen and put together by our violinist Joseph Puglia, who has chosen Carlo Gesualdo (1566- 1613) as our point of departure.

 

Gesualdo’s hyper-expressive music was unusual for his time, and he employed compositional methods which we do not see again until Wagner and Schoenberg. He is best known for killing his wife after catching her with her lover. Both the manner in which he composed and this grisly fact form the basis of this programme. After the murder, Gesualdo’s music is full of texts representing emotional extremes – love, guilt and death, in particular. The works featuring on this programme share the same emotions as a common theme – with a main focus on violence and war.

Kate More

Miserere

Salvatore Sciarrino

Le voci sottovetro - arr. of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa' compositions
Capriccio 4 for violin

Igor Stravinsky

Suite from L’histoire du soldat (version for trio violin/clarinet/piano)

Arnold Schönberg

Phantasy

George Crumb

Black Angels (electric string quartet)

Asko|Schönberg

Joseph Puglia curator, violinist
Noa Frenkel mezzo soprano

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Oct. 21 2021

Thursday

20:15
Inleiding 19:15 Foyerdeck

Amsterdam

Muziekgebouw