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Fanfare Magazine: 39:1 (09-10/2015) 
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This recorded program (the title means “sweetest poison”) is not simply a sampling of all six books of madrigals that Don Carlo Gesualdo (1566–1613) published between 1594 and 1611. It is a reinterpretation of his music, cast in the form of a romantic song cycle (Gaggero’s words). The contents—prologue, six moods, epilogue—suggest that a narrative will be heard, but the only narrative, or what he calls the dramatic structure, is in Gaggero’s notes. He has transcribed the published music into modern notation in order to add articulation and phrasing, and he has directed the singing to emphasize the text, believing that other interpreters betray the text by emphasizing the color and phrasing of the melodies. (I will leave it to him to engage those others in the debate that he proposes.)

He has found the story line of his song cycle primarily by choosing from Book 6 as well as Books 5 and 4 (only one selection is taken from each of the first three books). Another dramatization of a group of madrigals was Monteverdi’s Book 4 developed on a DVD as The Full Monteverdi (31:6). This sort of thing has an advantage over miscellaneous collections of a composer’s madrigals, though in recent years they have not appeared as often (it seems to me) as sets of the published books. The unfolding program repays close attention and justifies Gaggero’s claims for his approach to the madrigals. Worth hearing.

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