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The Gesualdo Six & Owain Park Fading
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The Gesualdo Six & Owain Park Fading on 180g LP from Hyperion
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 their imaginative programming and impeccable blend, the group formed in 2014 for a performance of Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories in Cambridge and has gone on to perform at numerous major festivals around the world.
Owain Park was born in Bristol in 1993. As well as directing the Gesualdo Six, he is Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers and works with ensembles including Southbank Sinfonia, Chamber Choir Ireland, Ensemble la Sportelle and Capella Cracoviensis. In 2024, he conducted the BBC Singers in a selection of Bruckner motets at the BBC Proms, which served as a prelude to the Berlin Philharmonic’s performance of Bruckner’s Symphony No 5. He also conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra in works by Anne Dudley and Iain Farrington as part of the ‘BBC Singers at 100’ celebrations at the Barbican. Pressed on 180g vinyl.
Track Listing
Side A:
- Fading : Te lucis ante terminum I
- Fading : Illumina faciem tuam
- Fading : Look Down, O Lord
- Fading : Phos hilaron: II. Phos hilaron
- Fading : Arabesques: III. Fading
- Fading : Lullaby 'My Sweet Little Baby', T. 242
- Fading : 4 Estonian Lullabies: No. 2, It’s Time for the Little Berry to Sleep
- Fading : Media vita
Side B:
- Fading : Ad te clamamus
- Fading : O Ecclesia, BN 64
- Fading : Versa est in luctum
- Fading : Potrò viver io più se senza luce
- Fading : My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird
- Fading : O Little Rose, O Dark Rose
