Gesualdo. Lucie Skeaping takes a look at the intriguing life and music of the notorious 16th-century Italian musician and murderer, Carlo Gesualdo , Prince of Venosa. She delves deep into the psyche of this astonishing eccentric who was only rediscovered in the 1920s but influenced composers as diverse as Peter Warlock and Igor Stravinsky. With examples of some of Gesualdo 's best madrigals, motets and Tenebrae Responses.
