Radiant Dawn
The Gesualdo Six
Matilda Lloyd (trumpet), The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park
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The Gesualdo Six explore different aspects of light and shade—musical evocations of dawn and dusk, the seasonal and the sacred—by composers from Saint Hildegard, writing in the twelfth century, to Owain Park in the twenty-first. The participation of trumpeter Matilda Lloyd, whether soaring above or blending with the voices, makes this a G6 album like no other.
For their tenth Hyperion album, award-winning vocal supergroup The Gesualdo Six combine voices and trumpet to unearth the spirit of the surprise 1990s hit ECM album Officium (Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble), launched when G6 director Owain Park was still in the cradle. Exploring fresh sound worlds, this album presents writing old and new, with two compositions commissioned specifically for the release. The Gesualdo Six now regularly tour the world, giving 150+ concerts a year. The group has commissioned (and written) over 100 new works from a diverse range of composers.
Contents:
1. ROTH: Night prayer
2. TALLIS: O nata lux de lumine
3. DALEY: Grandmother moon, 'She looks into and beyond my soul'
4. PRITCHARD: The light thereof, 'And the city had no need of the sun'
5. MACMILLAN: O radiant dawn
6. TALLIS: Dum transisset Sabbatum
7. HILDEGARD: O gloriosissimi
8. PANUFNIK, R: O hearken
9. WHITE: Christe, qui lux es et dies II
10. BARNARD, R: Aura, 'Listen to me little water'
11. BINGHAM: Enter Ghost, 'The air bites shrewdly'
12. PARK: Sommernacht, 'Im Garten rauscht die Sommernacht'
13. RHEINBERGER: 3 Geistliche Gesänge, Op 69 - 3: Abendlied
14. MACMILLAN: In splendoribus sanctorum
15. BURGON: Nunc dimittis, 1979 version, 'Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace'
ARTISTS
The Gesualdo Six
Owain Park, conductor
Matilda Lloyd, trumpet
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Hyperion CD
CDA68465