Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday
The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, Choral & Song Choice
Park’s direction of the music is sensitive and alert variegated...Words and polyphonic strands are lucid, and while The Gesualdo Six can build up intense and resonant climaxes, their voices...
Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday
The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, Choral & Song Choice
Park’s direction of the music is sensitive and alert variegated...Words and polyphonic strands are lucid, and while The Gesualdo Six can build up intense and resonant climaxes, their voices...
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The expressive extremity of the music and the notoriety of the life seem inextricably bound together where Gesualdo is concerned. Here, his Maundy Thursday Tenebrae Responsories provide the climax of a programme which opens with an astonishingly fine rendition of the Tallis Lamentations.
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Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineApril 2022Choral & Song Choice
April 2022
Park’s direction of the music is sensitive and alert variegated...Words and polyphonic strands are lucid, and while The Gesualdo Six can build up intense and resonant climaxes, their voices are never forced...In sum, these are accounts of haunting beauty – warmly recommended
April 2022
Detractors of the English vocal tradition are wont to reproach such ensembles with playing safe, but as English as The Gesualdo Six sound, one has to applaud the element of risk-taking in their performance.
