Tenebrae Responsoria (Gesualdo)

• Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday • In monte Oliveti • Tristis est anima mea • :Alex Ross writes about Gesualdo's setting of this responsory: "... begins with desolate, drooping figures that conjure Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane (“My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death”). It then accelerates into frenzied motion, suggesting the fury of the mob and the flight of Jesus’ disciples. There follows music of profound loneliness, radiant chords punctured by aching dissonances, as Jesus says, “I will go to be sacrificed for you.” The movement from inner to outer landscape, from chromatic counterpoint to block harmonies, humanizes Jesus in a way that calls to mind Caravaggio's New Testament paintings of the same period, with their collisions of dark and light." • Ecce vidimus eum • Amicus meus osculi • Judas mercator pessimus • Unus ex discipulis meis • Eram quasi agnus innocens • Una hora non potuistis • Seniores populi consilium • Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday • Omnes amici mei dereliquerunt me et praevaluerunt insidiantes mihi • Velum templi scissum est • Vinea mea electa, ego te plantavi • Tamquam ad latronem existis cum gladiis et fustibus cemprehendere me • Tenebrae factae sunt, dum crucifixissent Jesum Judaei • Animam meam dilectam tradidi in manus iniquorum • Tradiderunt me in manus impiorum • Jesum tradidit impius summis principibus sacerdotum, et senioribus populi • Caligaverunt oculi mei fletu meo • Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday • Sicut ovis ad occisionem • Jerusalem, surge • Plange quasi virgo • Recessit pastor noster • O vos omnes • Ecce quomodo moritur justus • Astiterunt reges terrae • Aestimatus sum • Sepulto Domino • "et alia" – settings of: • Miserere mei, Deus () • Benedictus () ::For the Lauds of Holy Week ==Publication of the score==