Fading

The Gesualdo Six

2020

CD

United Kingdom

The group's third album is inspired by the day's-end Compline service, and the not widely known chromatic folk song settings of Veljo Tormis suit to this atmosphere very well.

Conductor

Owain Park

Label

Hyperion

Album info

Adrian Peacock: Producer
David Hinitt: Recording engineer
Simon Perry: Executive producer
Perdita Andrew: Executive producer

Recording

Recorded: February 21, 2019 - February 23, 2019, St George's Church, Chesterton, Cambridge

1. Te lucis ante terminum

Thomas Tallis (c.1505 – 1585)

ISRC:

2:34

2. Illumina faciem tuam

Carlo Gesualdo (1566 – 1613)

ISRC:

3:37

3. Look down, O Lord

Jonathan Seers (b.1954)

ISRC:

2:23

4. Phos hilaron (short version)

Owain Park (b.1993)

ISRC:

2:12

5. Fading (No 3 of ‘Arabesques’)

Joanna Marsh (b.1970)

ISRC:

4:34

6. Lullaby ‘My Sweet Little Baby’

William Byrd (c.1540 – 1623)

ISRC:

2:22

7. Marjal aega magada (No 2 of ‘Four Estonian Lullabies’)

Veljo Tormis (1930 – 2017)

Four Estonian Lullabies It's Time for the Berry to Sleep (Räpina parish)

ISRC: GBAJY2028507

1:54

8. Media vita

Nicholas Gombert (1495 – 1560)

ISRC:

7:53

9. Laulan lapsele (No 1 of ‘Four Estonian Lullabies’)

Veljo Tormis

Four Estonian Lullabies I Sing to My Child (Kuusalu parish)

ISRC: GBAJY2028509

1:43

10. Ad te clamamus (Salve Regina)

Christopher Tye (c.1505 – 1572/3)

ISRC:

5:22

11. Lase kiik käia! (No 3 of ‘Four Estonian Lullabies’)

Veljo Tormis

Four Estonian Lullabies Let the Cradle Swing (Kuusalu parish)

ISRC: GBAJY2028511

1:40

12. Versa est in luctum

Alonso Lobo (1555 – 1617)

ISRC:

5:19

13. Potrò viver io più se senza luce

Luca Marenzio (c.1553 – 1599)

ISRC:

2:56

14. Seeds in flight (No 4 of ‘Arabesques’)

Joanna Marsh

ISRC:

5:14

15. O Ecclesia, oculi tui

Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 1179)

ISRC:

1:24

16. My heart is like a singing bird

Sarah Rimkus (b.1990)

ISRC:

5:45

17. O Little Rose, O Dark Rose

Gerda Blok-Wilson (b.1955)

ISRC:

4:39

18. Äiutus (No 4 of ‘Four Estonian Lullabies’)

Veljo Tormis

Four Estonian Lullabies Lulling (Muhu parish)

ISRC: GBAJY2028518

2:28

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