TV Standard: NTSC

Credits:

Bo Holten, Música Ficta (Colombia), Concerto Copenhagen

Description:

Bo Holten is a contemporary composer at the forefront of Danish music, but also leads his hand-picked Musica Ficta in Renaissance and Baroque music. His recent strong fascination is with the music of Jesuald, known for his strong personality and life. Holten's idea of adapting his dramatic life into an opera was to create a completely new work by "shadowing" his own compositions to the madrigals of Jezualdo. The story, which depicts three different periods in the life of Gesualdo and intersperses Gesualdo's madrigals throughout, not only painstakingly depicts Gesualdo's suffering, but also poses the meaning of "living" to those of us living in the modern age. Naxos Japan