While he is primarily remembered as a champion of Igor Stravinsky, Edgard Varèse, and the Second Viennese School, conductor Robert Craft was also profoundly interested in baroque-era polyphony, particularly the music of Carlo Gesualdo. Craft’s first pioneering recording of the Italian master’s madrigals, made for a small independent label in 1955, was an important landmark in the revival of interest in Gesualdo’s unique, revolutionary oeuvre and has since become a collector’s item for fans of vocal polyphony and early music. Toblach Ausgabe announces the inaugural release in the “Revolutionaries Remastered” series, focusing on important and influential recordings and disruptive, visionary artists from the early LP era — newly remastered by Urlicht AudioVisual. The download version of this release includes detailed notes on the recording by Audra Kendrick along with texts and new translations.
Gesualdo Renaissance
