Presto Recordings of the Year
Finalist 2023

The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park

Byrd: Ave verum Corpus
Byrd: Afflicti pro peccatis nostris
Byrd: Mass for five voices
Byrd: Tristitia et anxietas
Byrd: Ave Maria
Byrd: Circumdederunt me
Byrd: Emendemus in melius
Byrd: De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae 'Lamentations'

In a selection of motets woven affectingly throughout the glorious five-part Mass, The Gesualdo Six perfectly captures all the power and tenderness of Byrd's compositional voice.

"It is a special strength of this recording that The Gesualdo Six sound pellucid and grand and yet intimate, as though combining two approaches." - Gramophone Magazine, September 2023