The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - When Love Speaks - Choral Music by Owain Park (2020) [Official Digital Download]

The Epiphoni Consort follow up on their acclaimed debut, of music by David Bednall, with a portrait album of another young choral composer on the ascendant.

Owain Park’s musical tracks were set early, when he joined the choir of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol as a boy chorister. Subsequently organ scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, he draws - while still only in his twenties - on a specially English tradition of text-setting and choral writing which links him to figures such as Stanford and Vaughan Williams.

His innate understanding of the medium is shown in the skillfully contrasted weights and colours of Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time, one of two Shakespeare cycles included here, and the Epiphoni Consort singers make the most of the luxuriant chordal writing that characterizes Park’s style as a whole - what his former teacher John Rutter has described as ‘towers of sound’.

The choir is joined by a solo violin for the call and response patterns of Antiphon for the Angels, while Sing to me, windchimes movingly sets loss and yearning alongside poetic images of spring and youth.

TRACKLIST

1. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Louisa
2. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Sing to Me, Windchimes: I. Sing to Me, Windchimes
3. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Sing to Me, Windchimes: Interlude. The Inundation of the Spring
4. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Sing to Me, Windchimes: II. Loveliest of Trees
5. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Sing to Me, Windchimes: III. Star of the Frost
6. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Sing to Me, Windchimes: IV. The Rainy Summer
7. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Sing to Me, Windchimes: Interlude. A Wind That Woke a Lone Delight
8. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Sing to Me, Windchimes: V. Into My Heart an Air That Kills
9. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Sing to Me, Windchimes: VI. Life has a Loveliness to Sell
10. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Antiphon for the Angels
11. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Shakespeare Love Songs: I. Love Is a Smoke
12. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Shakespeare Love Songs: II. Love, Whose Month Is Ever May
13. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Shakespeare Love Songs: III. So Sweet a Kiss
14. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Shakespeare Love Songs: IV. When Love Speaks
15. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Holy Is the True Light
16. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: I. Light Thickens
17. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: II. Weary with Toil
18. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: III. Now It Is the Time of Night
19. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: IV. Let Fall the Windows of Thine Eyes
20. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: V. Be Not Afeard
21. The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader - Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: VI. The Cloud-Capp’d Towers



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