Start of O vos Omnes by Carlo Gesualdo. After the death of his first wife (murdered on his orders), Gesualdo was more than usually melancholy and turned to music for some kind of solace, often setting texts that were especially germane to his situation; words such as O vos omnes ('All ye that pass by, attend and see if there is any sorrow, like unto my sorrow') which come from the office of Matins for Holy Saturday.
The harmonic complexity and modernity of Gesualdo's music is held to be far in advance of his time.

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