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Gesualdo : death for five voices : the composer Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613) / a film by Werner Herzog.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 1422
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Latin
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Gesualdo, Carlo, principe di Venosa, approximately 1560-1613.
- Gesualdo, Carlo.
- Gesualdo, Carlo, principe di Venosa, approximately 1560-1613--Criticism and interpretation.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Composers--Italy--Biography.
- Composers.
- Italy.
- Madrigals.
- Motets.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biographical films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Death for five voices
- Place of Publication:
- Leipzig : Arthaus Musik, [2005]
- Language Note:
- Italian and English dialogue with overdubbed narration in English or German; music sung in Italian and Latin; subtitles in German, English, French, Spanish and Italian.
- System Details:
- DVD5; NTSC; Region 0; PCM stereo.; picture format: 16:9.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "Bearing all the hallmarks of Herzog's eccentric and original talent, this atmospheric documentary tells the chilling story of the sixteenth-century composer Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, one embracing sexual excess, ghastly murder and obsession. Filmed on location in Italy, it explores both his musical legacy and the extraordinary influence his tormented life has continued to exert on some of those whose lives have crossed his past"--Container.
- Contents:
- Special feature: Audio commentary by Werner Herzog.
- Participant:
- Pasquale d'Onofrio, Salvatore Catorano, Angelo Carrabs, Milva, Angelo Michele Torriello and others, actors ; Gerald Place, Alan Curtis, commentary ; overdubbed narration by Werner Herzog ; madrigals and motet performed by Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis, conductor ; Gesualdo Consort of London, Gerald Place, conductor.
- Credits:
- Producer, Lucki Stipetić ; director of photography, Peter Zeitlinger ; editor, Evelyn Paulmann ; lighting, Norbert Erben ; camera, Thomas Prodinger ; script, Jenny Erpenbeck.
- Notes:
- Originally produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduction in association with ZDF, c1995.
- Program notes in English, French and German (22 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) inserted in container.
- OCLC:
- 587706313
- Publisher Number:
- 807280205596
- 102 055 Arthaus Musik
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