WILLIAM BYRD
Byrd: Mass for five voices & other works The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Jun/2023 ] 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. |
TALLIS / GESUALDO / SEERS / PARK / BYRD etc
Fading The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] "The Gesualdo Six are the real deal. Far from fading, they're just coming into focus" Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2020 |
OWAIN PARK / HENRY PURCELL / THOMAS TALLIS / WILLIAM BYRD & OTHERS
Lux aeterna The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park, with Samuel Mitchell (narrator) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] "As always with The Gesualdo Six, the thing that strikes one most forcibly on first listening is the ensemble's extraordinary vocal blend." Gramophone |
CARLO GESUALDO / THOMAS TALLIS / etc
Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] "...The Gesualdo Six can build up intense and resonant climaxes, their voices are never forced...In sum, these are accounts of haunting beauty - warmly recommended." BBC Music Choral & Song Choice April 2022 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The King of Instruments (the BBC series) Gillian Weir (six European organs) [ Priory DVD + CD / DVD/CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] This new DVD (with a free bonus CD containing specially recorded performances of some of the works) is a release by Priory of the BBC programmes that were recorded on six famous European Organs by Dame Gillian Weir in the late 1980s |
Electric Six
Hearbeats and Brainwaves [ Too Many Robots / CD - released 7/Nov/2011 ] |
The James Hunter Six
Whatever It Takes [ Daptone Records / CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] James Hunter had already established himself as a permanent fixture in the world of Rhythm and Soul with his five previous albums, each more poignant and well-executed than the last. However, Whatever It Takes has buried them all. His voice has never... |
Sonic Boom Six
Sonic Boom Six [ Xtra Mile / CD - released 14/Dec/2012 ] |
The James Hunter Six
Whatever It Takes (LP) [ Datpone / LP - released 2/Feb/2018 ] James Hunter has certainly paid his dues. Over the span of 30 years, he's worked on the railway, busked in the streets of London, provided backup vocals and guitar for Van Morrison, played clubs and theatres all over the world, written scores of... |
Six By Seven
The Closer You Get + Peel Sessions (2LP) [ Beggars Banquet / 2 LP - released 17/Feb/2017 ] Despite heaping praise on Six by Seven's breakthrough second album The Closer You Get, the press seemed confused as to how to categorise them. The band straddled a fine line between post-Brit Pop, British rock and a much edgier kind of punk. Inspired... |
Six Organs Of Admittance
Companion Rises (LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 21/Feb/2020 ] The new Six Organs of Admittance song title says it all: "Two Forms Moving." Musically, a beatific bongo-driven acoustic form interlocks with a metallic guitar with intermittent synth radiation form, as two distinct vocal forms join together too.... |
JOHN DOWLAND
Dowland: Lute Songs, Lute Solos Alfred Deller (counter-tenor) / Robert Spencer (lute) / The Consort of Six [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] Alfred Deller's Dowland has become part of our history. The most legendary of English countertenors distilled the very essence of the melancholy of the 17th century English song in general and of the composer of the Lachrimae in particular. |
JOSEF HAYDN
Complete Piano Trios with Flute HOB XV15-17 Classical Chrome: Penelope Evison (six-keyed flute) Douglas Mews (forte-piano) Euan Murdoch (classical cello) [ Concordance / CD - released 15/Sep/2003 ] "I can imagine no more persuasive account of them than thsi well-documented mid-priced CD" (Dominion Post Aug 2003) |
Daisy Jones & The Six
Aurora [ Atlantic / Warner / CD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] Daisy Jones & The Six are the fictional band at the centre of Taylor Jenkin Reid's 2019 blockbuster novel of the same name. In the book, the band create a 70s masterpiece titled 'Aurora', then they split up and never recorded again. It charts the... |
Daisy Jones & The Six
Aurora (Limited Edition LP) [ Atlantic / Warner / LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] Daisy Jones & The Six are the fictional band at the centre of Taylor Jenkin Reid's 2019 blockbuster novel of the same name. In the book, the band create a 70s masterpiece titled 'Aurora', then they split up and never recorded again. It charts the... |
Daisy Jones & The Six
Aurora (LP) [ Atlantic / Warner / LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] Daisy Jones & The Six are the fictional band at the centre of Taylor Jenkin Reid's 2019 blockbuster novel of the same name. In the book, the band create a 70s masterpiece titled 'Aurora', then they split up and never recorded again. It charts the... |
Electric Six
Absolute Pleasure [ Too Many Robots / CD - released 19/Oct/2012 ] |
Electric Six
Fire [ CD ] |
Electric Six
Zodiac [ Too Many Robots / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] |
The Filthy Six
The Filthy Six [ Acid Jazz / CD - released 26/Jul/2010 ] |
The Filthy Six
The Filthy Six (Vinyl) [ Acid Jazz / LP - released 26/Jul/2010 ] |
BYRD / WHITE / MORLEY / CORNYSH / TAVERNER
The English Motets The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Mar/2018 ] The versatile Owain Park adds another two roles-those of singer and director-to his burgeoning Hyperion discography, while The Gesualdo Six make their label debut. Their programme of motets ranges widely across the religious musical landcsapes of... |
JOHANNES OCKEGHEM / JOSQUIN des PREZ / LOYSET COMPERE / ANTOINE BRUMEL / ADRIAN WILLAERT / etc
Josquin's legacy The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] 'The Gesualdo Six are well placed to record this music. They're very good at looking around the repertoire and working out what will fit with everything else … I love anthologies, and I love this particular one' (BBC Record Review) |
TALLIS / RUTTER / PRAETORIUS / HOLST/ HANDEL etc
Christmas The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] From the timeless plainchant 'Veni Emmanuel' via Jonathan Harvey to a riotous 'Jingle bells': Owain Park presents a programme of Christmas treats which effortlessly spans the centuries. |
ANONYMOUS / BYRD / HANDL / PART / PEACOCK / etc
Morning star The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] From Lassus and Byrd to Howells, Judith Bingham and Owain Park-The Gesualdo Six's exploration of Epiphany down the ages is a multifaceted compendium of musical delights. |
CASPAR JOSEPH MERTZ
Dances, Nocturnes and Etudes for Six‐String Guitar Graziano Salvoni (six-string 'Stauffer' guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jun/2014 ] Here's another recording dedicated to the music of Caspar Joseph Mertz, the court guitarist of Empress Carolina Augusta whose performances became famous throughout Austria, Hungary and Germany during the 1800s, making him one of the most sought-after... |
MILANO, F. da / DALL'AQUILA, M. / JOSQUIN DES PREZ / RIPA, A. da
Lute Recital: Italian Lute Virtuosi of the Renaissance Jakob Lindberg (six course lute) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2016 ] "Lindberg's tempos always feel spot on, allowing the music to breathe (as does the exemplary recording)…a captivating conspectus of a golden age aglow with confidences and delights" Five Stars BBC Music |
James Hunter Six
Hold On! [ Daptone / CD - released 18/Apr/2016 ] Hold On! is the fourth album by the rocking soul man James Hunter and his stalwart sextet. Daptone's Gabriel Roth produced the excellent Minute by Minute in 2013, but this is the band's debut for the label. Hold On! was recorded live in the studio,... |
James Hunter Six
Minute By Minute [ Universal Music / CD - released 4/Apr/2013 ] |
JOSQUIN DESPREZ
Giosquino: Josquin Desprez in Italia Odhecaton / Paolo Da Col / The Gesualdo Six [ Arcana / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] 'Odhecaton steer a middle course and opt for a bigger sound than either [The Hilliard Ensemble or De Labyrintho], something of which Ercole himself would have approved.' Gramophone Awards 2022 Finalist - Early Music |
P.G. Six
Slightly Sorry [ Drag City / CD - released 20/Feb/2007 ] |
P.G. Six
Starry Mind [ Drag City / CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] |
MORLEY / BYRD / TALLIS / GIBBONS
Her Heavenly Harmony: Profane Music from the Royal Court The Queen's Six [ Resonus Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] Following on from their acclaimed debut album (Music of the Realm - RES10146), a capella vocal sextet The Queen's Six return with a captivating exploration of secular jewels by the same six composers associated with the Tudor and Jacobean royal... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
From Windsor with Love The Queen's Six [ Signum Classics / CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] "Historically, The Queen's Six has always performed arrangements of pop songs. It was one of the main reasons for the group's inception in 2008, also the 450th anniversary of the Accession of Queen Elizabeth I, from whom they take their name. This... |
MORALES / FRANCO / de VICTORIA / GUERRERO / LOBO / etc
Journeys to the New World: Hispanic Sacred Music from the 16th & 17th Centuries The Queen's Six [ Signum / CD - released 21/Aug/2020 ] This is a musical trip from the mid-sixteenth century to around 1700, involving music in Late Renaissance style, carrying Spanish Catholicism across the Atlantic to supplant an indigenous culture. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Last Rose Of Summer: Folk Songs Of The British Isles The Queen's Six [ Signum / CD - released 20/Sep/2019 ] Based at Windsor Castle, the members of The Queen's Six make up half of the Lay Clerks of St George's Chapel, whose homes lie within the Castle walls. This rare privilege demands the highest musical standards, as they sing regularly for the Royal... |
BYRD / MORLEY / TOMKINS / WEELKES / GIBBONS / TALLIS
Music of the Realm: Tudor Music for Men's Voices The Queen's Six [ Resonus Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] The Queen's Six releases their debut album with a sumptuous selection of music from the golden age of English polyphony. Recorded in the extraordinary surroundings of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle - where each member of The Queen's Six is a... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Queen's Six Murder The Songs of Tom Lehrer The Queen's Six [ Signum Classics / CD - released 6/Aug/2021 ] Following Tom Lehrer's decision in 2020 to release almost 100 of his songs into the public domain (for anyone to perform and adapt without permission) The Queen's Six take up the offer with relish in this album of a cappella renditions of his "catchy... |
Six By Seven
The Closer You Get [ Beggars Banquet Records / CD ] |
Six By Seven
Greatest Hits [ Beggars Banquet / CD - released 17/Feb/2017 ] Back in 2000 it didn't seem like the country was ready for Six By Seven's brand of politically aware, angry and astute rock'n'roll. Whilst Olley was singing about junk food culture, unexploded mines, fake success and "this country's dirty and... |