Radiant Dawn The Gesualdo Six & Owain Park

• Alec Roth (b. 1948):
• 1 Roth: Night Prayer 03:29
• Thomas Tallis (1505 - 1585):
• 2 Tallis: O nata lux de lumine 02:09
• Eleanor Daley (b. 1955):
• 3 Daley: Grandmother Moon 04:03
• Deborah Pritchard (b. 1977):
• 4 Pritchard: The Light Thereof 04:48
• James MacMillan (b. 1959):
• 5 MacMillan: The Strathclyde Motets: O Radiant Dawn 04:21
• Thomas Tallis:
• 6 Tallis: Dum transisset Sabbatum 07:28
• Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179):
• 7 Hildegard von Bingen: O gloriosissimi lux 02:09
• Roxanna Panufnik (b. 1968):
• 8 Panufnik: O Hearken 02:21
• Robert White (1538 - 1579):
• 9 White: Christe, qui lux es et dies II 05:17
• Richard Barnard (b. 1977):
• 10 Barnard: Aura 06:44
• Judith Bingham (b. 1952):
• 11 Bingham: Enter Ghost 07:21
• Owain Park (b. 1993):
• 12 Park: Sommernacht 04:12
• Josef Rheinberger (1839 - 1901):
• 13 Rheinberger: 3 Geistliche Gesänge, Op. 69: No. 3, Abendlied 03:13
• James MacMillan:
• 14 MacMillan: The Strathclyde Motets: In splendoribus sanctorum 10:00
• Geoffrey Burgon (1941 - 2010):
• 15 Burgon: Nunc dimittis (1979 A Cappella Version) 03:17
• Total Runtime 01:10:52

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The Gesualdo Six ist ein preisgekröntes britisches Vokalensemble, das einige der besten Consort-Sänger Großbritanniens vereint und von Owain Park geleitet wird. Die Gruppe wurde 2014 für eine Aufführung von Gesualdos „Tenebrae-Responsorien” in Cambridge gegründet und ist seitdem bei zahlreichen großen Festivals auf der ganzen Welt aufgetreten. Das Ensemble hat Hunderte neuer Werke bei einer Vielzahl von Komponisten in Auftrag gegeben und veranstaltet regelmäßig Kompositionswettbewerbe. Für ihr zehntes Hyperion-Album kombinieren die preisgekrönten Vokalisten von The Gesualdo Six Stimmen mit Trompete, um den Geist des Erfolgsalbums „Officium” von Jan Garbarek und dem Hilliard Ensemble aus den Neunzigerjahren heraufzubeschwören – damals lag der Dirigent von The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park, noch in der Wiege. Das Album präsentiert alte und neue Kompositionen, darunter zwei, die speziell für diese Veröffentlichung in Auftrag gegeben wurden.

Die musikalische Bandbreite reicht dabei von Hildegard von Bingen aus dem 12. Jahrhundert über Thomas Tallis und Josef Rheinberger bis hin zu Owain Park aus dem 21. Jahrhundert. Die Mitwirkung der Trompeterin Matilda Lloyd, die sich mal über die Stimmen erhebt und mal mit ihnen verschmilzt, macht dieses Album zu einem besonderen Klangerlebnis.

The Gesualdo Six
Owain Park, Musikalische Leitung

The Gesualdo Six
is an award-winning British vocal ensemble comprising some of the UK’s finest consort singers, directed by Owain Park. Praised for imaginative programming and impeccable blend, the ensemble formed in 2014 for a performance of Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories in Cambridge and has gone on to perform at numerous major festivals across the UK, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. Notable highlights include a concert in the distinguished Deutschlandradio Debut Series, performances at Wigmore Hall (London) and Miller Theatre (New York), and collaborations with Fretwork, the Brodsky Quartet, London Mozart Players, Luxmuralis, William Barton and Matilda Lloyd.

The ensemble integrates educational work into its activities, regularly holding workshops for young musicians and composers. The Gesualdo Six has curated two Composition Competitions, with the 2019 edition attracting entries from over 300 composers around the world. The group has commissioned new works from Joanna Ward, Kerensa Briggs, Deborah Pritchard, Joanna Marsh, Shruthi Rajasekar and Richard Barnard, and coronasolfège for 6 by Héloïse Werner.

Videos of the ensemble performing a diverse selection of works filmed in Ely Cathedral have been watched by millions online. The group released its debut recording English Motets on Hyperion in 2018 to critical acclaim. This was followed by Christmas, a festive album of seasonal favourites; Fading, a collection of Compline-themed music; Josquin’s legacy, exploring pedagogy and patronage at courts in Renaissance Italy; Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday, inspired by the darkness and shadows of Holy Week; Lux aeterna, which illustrates musical responses to grief; and Byrd’s Mass for five voices.

Owain Park
was born in Bristol in 1993. As well as directing The Gesualdo Six, he maintains a busy schedule of conducting projects with ensembles including the London Mozart Players, Southbank Sinfonia, the Academy of Ancient Music and Capella Cracoviensis. Owain is Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers and formerly Musical Director of Cambridge Chorale.

Owain’s compositions are published by Novello and have been performed internationally by ensembles including The Tallis Scholars and Aurora Orchestra. While at Cambridge University, he studied orchestration with John Rutter, before undertaking a master’s degree in composition. He is Composer-in-Residence for the London Choral Sinfonia, and was one of BBC Radio 3’s ‘31 under 31 Young Stars 2020’. An album of his compositions recorded by The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge was nominated for the 2019 BBC Music Magazine Awards. In 2020 the Epiphoni Consort released When Love speaks, an album of his secular choral works.

Owain is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO) and was awarded the Dixon Prize for Improvisation, having been Senior Organ Scholar at Wells Cathedral and Trinity College Cambridge. He was a Tenebrae Associate Artist for two seasons, and has worked with ensembles such as The Sixteen, the Gabrieli Consort and Polyphony.

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