The Gesualdo Six – Fading

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.

1. Te Lucis Ante Terminum I
2. Illumina Faciem Tuam
3. Look Down, O Lord
4. Phos Hilaron (Short Version)
5. Fading (No 3 of 'Arabesques')
6. Lullaby 'My Sweet Little Baby'
7. Marjal Aega Magada (No 2 of 'Four Estonian Lullabies')
8. Media Vita
9. Laulan Lapsele (No 1 of 'Four Estonian Lullabies')
10. Ad Te Clamamus 'Salve Regina'
11. Lase Kiik Käia! (No 3 of 'Four Estonian Lullabies')
12. Versa Est in Luctum
13. Potrò Viver Io Più Se Senaze Luce
14. Seeds in Flight (No 4 of 'Arabesques')
15. O Ecclesia
16. My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird
17. O Little Rose, O Dark Rose
18. Äiutus (No 4 of 'Four Estonian Lullabies')

Label: Hyperion

Catalog: 239827

Genre: Classical Artists