•• ‘BRUCKNER & GESUALDO: MOTETS’ WAS OUR FEATURED ALBUM FOR JULY 2025 ••

Recorded live in concert in October 2024, this release marks the Monteverdi Choir’s 60th birthday and the 200th anniversary of Bruckner’s birth with an album that combines his celebrated a cappella motets with the sacred motets of Carlo Gesualdo (1566 – 1613). Performed in 2024 by the Monteverdi Choir in Ely, Oxford and the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich under conductor Jonathan Sells, the album brings alive both the tormented passion and the exultant beauty of both composers’ music.

Track Listing:

Palestrina arr. Wagner	Stabat mater
Gesualdo	Illumina faciem tuam
Bruckner	Christus factus est WAB 11
Gesualdo	Ave dulcissima Maria
Bruckner	Ave Maria WAB 6
Lotti	Crucifixus a 8
Gesualdo	Tribulationem et dolorem
Bruckner	Os justi WAB 30
Gesualdo	O vos omnes
Bruckner	Salvum fac populum tuum WAB 40
Gesualdo	Peccantem me quotidie
Bruckner	Vexilla regis WAB 51
Gesualdo	Laboravi in gemitu meo
Bruckner	Locus iste WAB 23

Monteverdi Choir
Jonathan Sells conductor

SDG736 • Released 2025