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Play, download and edit the free video Gesualdo: Illumina faciem tuam (excerpt).

Illumina faciem tuam – a motet by Carlo Gesualdo, from #Fading by The Gesualdo Six.

This excerpt was performed live at St Anne and St Agnes Church in London in 2020, ahead of the group’s performance as part of VOCES8’s #LivefromLondon series.

Programme Note:
Gesualdo’s music is well known for its extreme style, with chromatic melodies creating dissonant and disjointed harmonic progressions that illuminate the most melancholy aspects of the dark texts he set. The sacred motet Illumina faciem tuam, with its startling harmonic shifts and expressive word-painting, is typical of the composer: listen for the gradual build-up between ‘salvum me’ (‘save me’) and ‘quoniam invocavi te’ (‘for I have called upon thee’), as the tension grows through ever more insistent repetitions. [Owain Park © 2020]

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