Nearly 4000 years ago, when the tall towers of a city called Troy reached gleaming into the sky, a proud king fought against an invading army in a desperate siege. The reading is supplemented by music from Nielsen.
Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Verona, is equally celebrated as the composer of madrigals of great power and complexity and as the murderer of his wife and her lover. This detailed study of his life and music has been updated to include new biographical material on the composer's latter years.