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

• Owain Park (b. 1993):
• 1 Louisa 04:41
• Sing to Me, Windchimes:
• 2 Sing to Me, Windchimes: I. Sing to Me, Windchimes 03:12
• 3 Sing to Me, Windchimes: Interlude. The Inundation of the Spring 00:36
• 4 Sing to Me, Windchimes: II. Loveliest of Trees 03:44
• 5 Sing to Me, Windchimes: III. Star of the Frost 02:03
• 6 Sing to Me, Windchimes: IV. The Rainy Summer 04:58
• 7 Sing to Me, Windchimes: Interlude. A Wind That Woke a Lone Delight 00:52
• 8 Sing to Me, Windchimes: V. Into My Heart an Air That Kills 03:38
• 9 Sing to Me, Windchimes: VI. Life has a Loveliness to Sell 07:41
• Owain Park:
• 10 Antiphon for the Angels 10:23
• Shakespeare Love Songs:
• 11 Shakespeare Love Songs: I. Love Is a Smoke 02:31
• 12 Shakespeare Love Songs: II. Love, Whose Month Is Ever May 02:40
• 13 Shakespeare Love Songs: III. So Sweet a Kiss 04:30
• 14 Shakespeare Love Songs: IV. When Love Speaks 02:15
• Owain Park:
• 15 Holy Is the True Light 05:57
• Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time:
• 16 Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: I. Light Thickens 02:21
• 17 Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: II. Weary with Toil 03:56
• 18 Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: III. Now It Is the Time of Night 02:05
• 19 Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: IV. Let Fall the Windows of Thine Eyes 02:37
• 20 Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: V. Be Not Afeard 02:43
• 21 Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: VI. The Cloud-Capp’d Towers 03:26
• Total Runtime 01:16:49

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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