Gesualdo: The Prince's Archlute / Zuljan

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Ricercar
Release Date
May 27, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Carlo Gesualdo
    • PERFORMER
      Bor Zuljan
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 27, 2022
    • UPC
      5400439004344
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      RIC434
    • LABEL
      Ricercar
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical

The murderous composer Carlo Gesualdo, Principe di Venosa, was also a lutenist extolled by his contemporaries. At the end of the sixteenth century he received the first two prototypes of the archlute from his colleague Alessandro Piccinini in Ferrara, one of which he kept. In the absence of surviving music for the lute by the composer himself, Bor Zuljan has imagined the sound world of the prince’s archlute: a kaleidoscope of fabulous and extreme sonorities on this extravagant instrument, from transcriptions of his vocal and instrumental music to the astonishing chromatic compositions of composers he is thought to have encountered, and whose work exerted an influence on his. Includes works by C. Gesualdo, A. Piccinini, J. H. Kapsberger, P. P. Melli, C. Saracini etc.