Seatown wrote: Been entertaining my in laws from Campania in Southern Italy.Hopin' to get out there again asap.
My choices this week have been hardly gnostic rock and roll but deffo undeservedly unsung.
Gesualdo...Madrigals
Pergolesi/Scarlatti Stabat Mater
Also other stuff from 16-18thc Italian music such as Monteverdi and Tartini.
Strangely enough, I've just come back from holidaying in Southern italy and I've been discovering Gesualdo's music too. I find it interesting that, although I know very little about medieval music, the madrigals I've heard sound spooky and quite unsettling compared to say, Montiverdi's (which were far more soothing).
I've just been reading the Wiki entry on Gesualdo ... bleedin' eck - he was a bit barmy, wasn't he? Even by the standards of your common-or-garden mad genius he seemed a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
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