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...madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo, far too few, introduced the second half of the program. Aldous Huxley has given Gesualdo's art the proper eulogy and analysis; one can only add that bursts of unrelated harmonies and dramatic stops and starts notwithstanding, each part flowed smoothly...
Deft Exercise. Later in the week Stravinsky touched off some mild demonstrations, of his own. Occasion: the world premiere in Venice of his seven-minute Monumentum Pro Gesualdo di Venosa Ad CD Annum, inspired by the music of late-16th-century Madrigalist Don Carlo Gesualdo, who has long fascinated Stravinsky (Gesualdo had his wife and her lover murdered and is said to have suffocated one of his own children before relieving his tensions in song). In 1956 Stravinsky set himself the task of "recomposing" three Gesualdo madrigals for orchestra. The results added up to little more than deft exercises...
...Venice (Sept. 12-27). New works by Italian composers plus the first performance of Igor Stravinsky's 15-minute religious oratorio Gesualdo Monumentum, a work inspired by the writings of 16th century Madrigal Composer Don Carlo Gesualdo (who evidently used his music to sublimate his personal troubles; he had his wife and her lover murdered, suffocated one of his children...
TIME'S music staff is to be congratulated for fine stories on two comparatively unknown yet great musicians: Gesualdo, long dead and almost forgotten except by a handful of music lovers, and Don Elliott, long a musician's musician, whose star is just beginning to rise...
Ahead of His Time. Between 1594 and 1611, Gesualdo published six books of madrigals that contain such daring harmony and such sensitivity that many historians consider him centuries ahead of his time, see in him a musical contemporary of Richard Wagner. Until recently, the modern public has had little chance to savor the sorrows of Gesualdo, but now a first-class LP has been released on the Sunset label with five singers led by young (28) California Conductor Robert Craft, a protege of Composer Igor Stravinsky. The album is "presented by" Author Aldous Huxley, who has long been fascinated...