12 Days of Christmas

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We are delighted to be partnering with Ryedale Festival, Echo Vocal Ensemble and The Swan Consort to produce the ‘12 Days of Christmas’.

Give the gift of a Choral Christmas to your loved ones this year from three of the UK’s brightest choral ensembles.

Filmed in the splendour of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, 12 Days of Christmas delivers a seasonal musical offering to the recipient’s email inbox every day from 25th December to 6th January.

With options for bespoke gift packages or eco-friendly digital delivery, 12 Days of Christmas is the perfect present for your music-loving friends and family wherever they may be during the festive season.

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Presented in association with Ryedale Festival and with grateful thanks to Tidze.

Advent Sessions

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From Darkness to Light

The Gesualdo Six present a series of short recitals for the season of Advent, recorded in the stunning Boxgrove Priory.

Ticket holders will be able to watch each recital on demand from the date of broadcast until 6 January 2021.

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i. I look from afar (Sunday 29 November)

Music by Palestrina, Lassus and Eccard.

ii. In Mary’s Love (Sunday 6 December)

Music by Hildegard, Bingham and Palestrina.

iii. Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland (Sunday 13 December)

Works by Praetorius and Cheryl Frances-Hoad alongside a plainchant setting of the Advent hymn, Veni redemptor gentium.

iv. Veni Emmanuel (Sunday 20 December)

Works by Byrd and Adrian Peacock alongside the traditional Advent hymn, Veni Emmanuel.

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12 Days Challenge

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Calling ALL composers, musicians, and enthusiasts! Complete this cadence for choir as you see fit. The twelve winning submissions will be recorded professionally and featured as part of an upcoming seasonal festival featuring The Gesualdo Six, Echo Vocal Ensemble and The Swan Consort, in partnership with Ryedale Festival.

Email your submission to choralchristmas@gmail.com or you can tweet with the hashtag #12dayschallenge.

Limelight Award for Fading

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“A ravishing disc that combines Renaissance music by the likes of Tallis and Gesualdo with complementary contemporary choral works.”

We are thrilled that Fading has been awarded Vocal Recording of the Year by Limelight.

“These performances are superb: precision, warmth, power and delicacy united in an utterly beguiling whole, all the while maintaining perfect definition as each vocal tonality inhabits its own sphere,” wrote Lisa MacKinney, also admiring the recording from St George’s Church, Cambridge. “Its glorious acoustics are on show in spades, with a rich, thick presence and just the right amount of reverberation for these glorious voices to soar heavenwards.”

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About the album

Since the fourth century, the service of Compline has marked the end of the day, ushering in the darkness of the night. Much of the music here is inspired by this ancient service. The first half of the album features a selection of atmospheric works that relate to the transition between light and darkness. Then there is a turning point; the light returns, birds sing, and flowers bloom once more.

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A beautiful lullaby by Estonian composer, Veljo Tormis

London Sound Gallery artists featured on Radio 3

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Congratulations to three of the London Sound Gallery artists for being featured as part of BBC Radio 3’s YOUNG STARS: 31 UNDER 31 series.

Héloïse Werner and Matilda Lloyd were announced by Georgia Mann, and Owain Park by Petroc Trelawny on BBC Radio 3 Breakfast shows during October.

Catch their London Sound Gallery concerts on-demand before 1 January 2021. Find out more.

Fading nominated for Limelight award

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Our latest album, Fading has been nominated for Limelight’s Recording of the Year 2020.

Limelight’s critics have picked their 25 favourite recordings from the last 12 months.

Rarities include a Mass by Jan Ladislav Dussek (rediscovered by Richard Egarr) and William Alwyn’s operatic version of Strindberg’s Miss Julie. Finally, two discs that mix the old with the new: Owain Park’s masterfully programmed choral recital, Fading, and an intriguing juxtaposition of Rameau and Debussy on Víkingur Ólafsson’s latest disc. In other words, plenty of food for thought.

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A long list of 100 recordings has been whittled down to five discs in each of five categories: Orchestral, Chamber, Instrumental, Vocal & Choral, and Opera.

Read Limelight Magazine’s review of Fading here.

O Radiant Dawn: new commissions

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We are delighted to be co-commissioning a series of new works for our ‘O Radiant Dawn’ programme with trumpeter, Matilda Lloyd. The first piece is by Richard Barnard, who chose a text by Emily Berry for his piece, ‘Aura’.

We will be giving the world premiere of this piece on Friday 9 October at St John’s Smith Square. Find out more about the performances here.

If you would be interested in supporting these commissions then we would be delighted to hear from you. Please visit the contact page.

Performances in August 2020

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St John’s Smith Square

Canon and Invention

Tuesday 4 August 2020 at 8.00 PM

Join us online for our performance as part of St John’s Smith Square’s Digital Exchange project. Our programme explores the roots of fugue in musical canons from Italy, featuring works by Ockeghem, Josquin and Mouton. Broadcast details will be published via our social media channels.

We recorded this concert live last week to an audience of 25 people. This was a trial organised by DCMS and thankfully the findings were positive. Although the return to live performance with audiences has been delayed, our event was a useful stepping stone on the road to recovery.

JAM on the Marsh

Passion and Polyphony

Friday 7 August 2020 at 7.30 PM | Find out more

Exploring a relationship between old and new, playful and profound, The Gesualdo Six present an exhibition of some of the finest vocal consort works from renaissance and modern-day composers.

The ensemble have become renowned for their stagecraft, and the church of St Leonard’s in Hythe provides a unique canvas for this programme.

Fauré Requiem

Friday 14 August 2020 at 7.30 PM | Find out more

A concert of music and readings for all affected by Covid-19. The Fauré Requiem with new readings by poet Grahame Davies commissioned for this event by JAM on the Marsh.

The Gesualdo Six
London Mozart Players
Simon Hogan, organ
Owain Park, conductor

BBC Choral Evensong

Wednesday 19 August at 3.30 PM | Find out more

We have commissioned Kerensa Briggs to compose a psalm chant for our appearance on BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong on Wednesday 19 August at 3.30pm. Listen to her work alongside music by William Byrd and Piers Kennedy, plus the first performance of Night Prayer by Owain Park.

Live from London

Saturday 29 August 2020 at 7.00 PM | Find out more

We are delighted to be taking part in a new online vocal festival, Live from London, which features some of the world’s finest vocal ensembles.

Bristol Concerts this September

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We are delighted to be returning to Bristol to give two concerts at All Saints Clifton on Saturday 19 September 2020 at 3pm and 7pm.

We have chosen some of our favourite pieces to perform, including well-loved works from our repertoire alongside new pieces discovered over the past few months.

Taking our cue from other organisations planning similar events and in line with current guidelines, both concerts are for a small and distanced audience. Ticket prices reflect this, although reduced rates are available.

Audience members will be required to wear masks apart from those who are exempt.

Tickets are available by request only. Please use this form to request your tickets.

The safety of all who attend—audience, artists and stewards—is our top priority.

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Call for Graphic Scores

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‪The Hermes Experiment are inviting composers to submit graphic scores for premiere in collaboration with The Gesualdo Six this Autumn.

They are looking for pieces linked to reconnection and new beginnings.

Email hermesexperiment@gmail.com or tweet @TheHExperiment by 15 September at 5pm. 

The winner will be announced on 17 September 2020.

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The Hermes Experiment

Find out more about our 2016 Composition Competition.

Find out more about our 2019 Composition Competition.