Tag: The Singers of Ferrara
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Gesualdo Renaissance
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…