The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park

Presented by Philippe Maillard Productions (2-L-R-22-12384 and 3-L-R-22-12385The Gesualdo SixOwain Park, bass & directionGuy James counter-tenorAlasdair Austin, counter-tenorJoseph Wicks, tenorJosh Cooter, tenorSimon Grant, barytonTALLIS, PALESTRINA, VICTORIA, BYRD, DESPREZ.... Penitential music offers particularly fruitful themes for a setting to music: sorrow, remorse, supplication to the Lord, these subjects open up abysmal spiritual and philosophical meditations, often in resonance with the concerns of the composers themselves. The Renaissance is, in this area, a real golden age that The Gesualdo Six invites us to discover or rediscover. At the heart of this program, the moving Lamentations de Jérémie de Robert White, with lines as clean as they are desolate, find a welcome echo in masterpieces by Byrd, Victoria or Guerrero, without forgetting the latest but no less poignant Crucifixus de Lotti.It goes without saying that The Gesualdo Six are the worthy heirs of the greatest English polyphonist formations, with a striking perfection but also this expressive intensity that belongs only to them.