Release Date: 28 June 2024
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571284538
Description
The infallible Gesualdo Six trademarks of consummate musicianship and scholarly integrity are much in evidence here.
'Queen of Hearts' addresses and reflects on queens spiritual (the Virgin Mary) and temporal (Mary Tudor and Anne Boleyn, among others) in a programme of music largely of the sixteenth century, but spiced with two short works from the twenty-first.
"There are many engrossing and lovely musical experiences here." - BBC Music Magazine
"sung with […] heart-stopping beauty." – BBC Radio 3, Record Review (Andrew McGregor)
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"Throughout, The Gesualdo Six offer up introspective and expressive reading – literally deep in the case of Brumel's prayerful Sub tuum praesidium scored for sonorous low voices, and the same composer's De tout plongiet / Fors seulement whose bass line fathoms the abyss." – BBC Music Magazine (4 stars)
Tracklisting
Laurence Perkins
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Stephen Hough; The Halle; Mark Elder
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
