When Love Speaks: Choral Music by Owain Park The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader

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Album info

Album-Release:
2020

HRA-Release:
26.06.2020

Label: Delphian

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Choral

Artist: The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader

Composer: David Bednall, Owain Park (1993-)

Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)

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  • Owain Park (b. 1993):
  • 1Louisa04:41
  • Sing to Me, Windchimes:
  • 2Sing to Me, Windchimes: I. Sing to Me, Windchimes03:12
  • 3Sing to Me, Windchimes: Interlude. The Inundation of the Spring00:36
  • 4Sing to Me, Windchimes: II. Loveliest of Trees03:44
  • 5Sing to Me, Windchimes: III. Star of the Frost02:03
  • 6Sing to Me, Windchimes: IV. The Rainy Summer04:58
  • 7Sing to Me, Windchimes: Interlude. A Wind That Woke a Lone Delight00:52
  • 8Sing to Me, Windchimes: V. Into My Heart an Air That Kills03:38
  • 9Sing to Me, Windchimes: VI. Life has a Loveliness to Sell07:41
  • Owain Park:
  • 10Antiphon for the Angels10:23
  • Shakespeare Love Songs:
  • 11Shakespeare Love Songs: I. Love Is a Smoke02:31
  • 12Shakespeare Love Songs: II. Love, Whose Month Is Ever May02:40
  • 13Shakespeare Love Songs: III. So Sweet a Kiss04:30
  • 14Shakespeare Love Songs: IV. When Love Speaks02:15
  • Owain Park:
  • 15Holy Is the True Light05:57
  • Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time:
  • 16Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: I. Light Thickens02:21
  • 17Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: II. Weary with Toil03:56
  • 18Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: III. Now It Is the Time of Night02:05
  • 19Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: IV. Let Fall the Windows of Thine Eyes02:37
  • 20Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: V. Be Not Afeard02:43
  • 21Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: VI. The Cloud-Capp’d Towers03:26
  • Total Runtime01:16:49

Info for When Love Speaks: Choral Music by Owain Park



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.

The Epiphoni Consort
Tim Reader, conductor



The Epiphoni Consort
The Epiphoni Consort was founded in 2014 as a project-based chamber choir for singers of an advanced training but who, in the majority of cases, pursue other primary careers.

Since our debut recital at the Gresham Centre in April 2014, we have embarked on an ambitious and eclectic programme of activity including Strauss’s fearsome Deutsche Motette in 20 parts at St John’s Smith Square and a concert-drama with music and acted scenes commemorating the centenary of the 1914 Christmas Truce.

In 2015 we were invited to appear at festivals including The Brandenburg Choral Festival, the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music and the London International A Cappella Choir Competition (LIACCC). Before a jury chaired by Peter Phillips of the Tallis Scholars, Epiphoni proceeded through the heats to the Grand Final. Phillips commended us on our “excellent interpretation and atmosphere” of the sixteenth century repertoire and vocal coach Ghislaine Morgan called us “mesmerising”. We went on to take second prize.

In November 2015 the world-renowned Tenebrae invited us to join them on stage at their Brahms and Bruckner CD launch at St James’, Spanish Place, after they awarded us first prize in their Locus Iste competition.

On January 1st 2016 we made our BBC TV debut in a documentary about the life and work of Sergei Rachmaninoff, The Joy of Rachmaninoff.

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