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Byrd: Mass For Five Voices & Other Works
The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
The entire program is sung with the utmost restraint...Among the miscellaneous collections of Byrd’s music, this ranks near the top, an impressive presentation sung one voice to a part, beautifully...
Byrd: Mass For Five Voices & Other Works
The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park
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Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
The entire program is sung with the utmost restraint...Among the miscellaneous collections of Byrd’s music, this ranks near the top, an impressive presentation sung one voice to a part, beautifully...
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In a selection of motets woven affectingly throughout the glorious five-part Mass, The Gesualdo Six perfectly captures all the power and tenderness of Byrd's compositional voice.
Lux aeterna - CDA68388 works by Bennett, Byrd, Cox, Daley, Guest, Marsh, McKevitt, Morales, O'Donnell, Park, Purcell, Skempton, Tallis & Tavener:
"As always with the Gesualdo Six, the thing that strikes one most forcibly on first listening is the ensemble's extraordinary vocal blend!" GRAMOPHONE
CARLO GESUALDO (c1561-1613) - Tenebrae Responsaries for Maundy Thursday:
"In sum, these are account of haunting beauty - warmly recommended" BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2023
Nov/Dec 2023
The entire program is sung with the utmost restraint...Among the miscellaneous collections of Byrd’s music, this ranks near the top, an impressive presentation sung one voice to a part, beautifully blended, capturing the mood that Byrd sought to create. Highly recommended.
September 2023
It is a special strength of this recording that The Gesualdo Six sound pellucid and grand and yet intimate, as though combining two approaches.
30th July 2023
This beautifully sung and recorded disc captures supremely well the stillness at the heart of the Mass, which was written for secret Catholic worship during the reign of Elizabeth I.
