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ハイペリオン『Vinyl Edition』第4弾 初LP化5タイトル 180g重量盤

12世紀(ヒルデガルト・フォン・ビンゲン)から21世紀へと旅するジェズアルド・シックスの歌声は、14人の作曲家による感動的な音楽の連作を通して、古代の晩課を巡る瞑想的な考察を紡ぎ出します。最近BBCシンガーズの次期首席指揮者に就任が発表されたオワイン・パーク指揮の下、ジェズアルド・シックスは「言葉では言い表せないほど美しい歌声」(タイムズ紙)と「きらめくような清らかな歌声」(ガーディアン紙)を持つ歌手たちとして高い評価を得ています。彼らの3枚目のアルバム『フェイディング』は、2020年にライムライト誌の年間最優秀ボーカル・レコーディング賞を受賞しました。
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

The Gesualdo Six (actually there are seven of them including director Owain Park, who sings bass as well as directing) are among the UKs hot vocal groups. Fading, their third album, is inspired by the days-end Compline service, and it may make a good place to begin with the groups remarkable work. Their atmospheric, sensuous sound fits the strongly spiritual quality of many of the lyrics, and they have a consistency of approach strong enough to tie together some rather diverse material. For the most part, Park alternates Renaissance works with contemporary pieces. There are subdivisions within each category, though, and this is what gives the program its peculiarly powerful variety. On the Renaissance side, there are English pieces and Continental works of the 16th century that venture into more chromatic territory. The one by the groups namesake is the least chromatic of these (Gesualdos sacred music, for the most part, was a good deal less experimental than his madrigals), but pieces like Gomberts Media vita dovetail nicely with the little-known chromatic folk song settings of composer Veljo Tormis. In all, a highly original program, beautifully executed, and well recorded at St. Georges Church, Chesterton, Cambridge.