℗ 2020 Delphian Records
| Released | June 26, 2020 |
| Duration | 1h 16m 56s |
| Record Label | Delphian Records |
| Catalogue No. | DCD34239 |
| Genre | Classical (Choral) |
When Love Speaks: Choral Music by Owain Park
The Epiphoni Consort, Tim Reader
Available in 44.1 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC audio formats
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1.1
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Louisa
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; Emily Benson; Christopher Pelmore |
4:41 | |||
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Sing to me, windchimes
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1.2
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I. Sing to me, windchimes
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; Owain Park |
3:12 | |||
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1.3
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Interlude – The inundation of the Spring
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; Owain Park |
0:36 | |||
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1.4
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II. Loveliest of trees
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; Annie Hamilton; Owain Park |
3:44 | |||
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1.5
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III. Star of the frost
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; Owain Park |
2:03 | |||
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1.6
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IV. The Rainy Summer
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; Owain Park |
4:58 | |||
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1.7
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Interlude – A Wind that woke a lone Delight
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; Owain Park |
0:52 | |||
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1.8
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V. Into my heart an air that kills
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; Owain Park |
3:38 | |||
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1.9
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VI. Life has a loveliness to sell
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; Owain Park |
7:45 | |||
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1.10
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Antiphon for the Angels
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; Gabriella Jones |
10:23 | |||
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Shakespeare Love Songs
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1.11
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I. Love is a smoke
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader |
2:31 | |||
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1.12
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II. Love, whose month is ever May
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; Jess Haig |
2:40 | |||
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1.13
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III. So sweet a kiss
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; John Robb |
4:30 | |||
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1.14
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IV. When love speaks
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader |
2:15 | |||
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1.15
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Holy is the True Light
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader |
5:57 | |||
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Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time
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1.16
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I. Light thickens
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader |
2:21 | |||
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1.17
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II. Weary with toil
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; Milly Taylor; Jenny McPherson; Milo Comerford |
3:56 | |||
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1.18
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III. Now it is the time of night
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader |
2:05 | |||
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1.19
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IV. Let fall the windows of thine eyes
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; Milly Taylor |
2:37 | |||
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1.20
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V. Be not afeard
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader; Pippa Wright; Milo Comerford |
2:44 | |||
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1.21
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VI. The cloud-capp’d towers
Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort; Tim Reader |
3:28 | |||
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 skilfully 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 characterises 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.
44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Delphian Records Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -4.72 -14.55 to -0.55 | -29.46 -37.60 to -24.40 | -24.81 -32.60 to -18.50 | 14 11 to 17 | |
| 1 | Louisa | -4.32 | -30.90 | -26.9 | 16 |
| 2 | I. Sing to me, windchimes | -1.90 | -27.73 | -22.9 | 15 |
| 3 | Interlude – The inundation of the Spring | -13.42 | -33.86 | -30.1 | 11 |
| 4 | II. Loveliest of trees | -0.55 | -24.53 | -19.2 | 13 |
| 5 | III. Star of the frost | -3.94 | -29.30 | -25.8 | 15 |
| 6 | IV. The Rainy Summer | -0.58 | -24.40 | -18.5 | 14 |
| 7 | Interlude – A Wind that woke a lone Delight | -14.55 | -37.60 | -32.6 | 13 |
| 8 | V. Into my heart an air that kills | -3.54 | -28.39 | -23.8 | 15 |
| 9 | VI. Life has a loveliness to sell | -0.57 | -25.21 | -19.2 | 15 |
| 10 | Antiphon for the Angels | -2.30 | -28.80 | -24.1 | 15 |
| 11 | I. Love is a smoke | -7.31 | -29.75 | -25.4 | 13 |
| 12 | II. Love, whose month is ever May | -7.05 | -30.52 | -26.8 | 13 |
| 13 | III. So sweet a kiss | -3.74 | -28.89 | -24.8 | 15 |
| 14 | IV. When love speaks | -10.07 | -34.09 | -30.5 | 13 |
| 15 | Holy is the True Light | -0.87 | -28.42 | -23.3 | 17 |
| 16 | I. Light thickens | -6.33 | -31.68 | -25.9 | 12 |
| 17 | II. Weary with toil | -1.17 | -27.26 | -22.2 | 15 |
| 18 | III. Now it is the time of night | -1.53 | -24.65 | -19.1 | 12 |
| 19 | IV. Let fall the windows of thine eyes | -3.47 | -31.98 | -28.3 | 12 |
| 20 | V. Be not afeard | -3.93 | -29.70 | -25.0 | 16 |
| 21 | VI. The cloud-capp’d towers | -7.97 | -31.03 | -26.7 | 13 |