(c) Andrew Wilkinson The Gesualdo Six & Owain Park: Oratoire du Louvre
Paris, Eglise de l'Oratoire du Louvre — Main Hall
About the Event
Penitential music offers particularly rich themes for setting to music: grief, remorse, and supplication to the Lord—these subjects open up depths of spiritual and philosophical meditation, often resonating with the composers’ own concerns. The Renaissance represents, in this field, a true golden age that The Gesualdo Six invites us to discover or rediscover. At the heart of this program are Robert White’s deeply moving *Lamentations of Jeremiah*, with lines as refined as they are desolate, which find a welcome echo in masterpieces by Byrd, Victoria, and Guerrero, not to mention Lotti’s later but no less poignant *Crucifixus*.
It goes without saying that The Gesualdo Six prove themselves worthy heirs to the greatest English polyphonic ensembles, with striking perfection but also that expressive intensity that is uniquely their own.
TALLIS, PALESTRINA, VICTORIA, BYRD, DESPREZ….
Penitence and Prayer
Cast / Production
The Gesualdo Six
Owain Park, bass & direction
Guy James, countertenor
Alasdair Austin, countertenor
Joseph Wicks, tenor
Josh Cooter, tenor
Simon Grant, baryton
Address
Eglise de l'Oratoire du Louvre, 145, rue Saint‐Honoré, Paris, France — Google Maps
