The Waiting Sky (2024)
Anna Lapwood & The Pembroke Girls Choir
Featuring Cradle Lullaby
Sony Classical International • Spotify • iTunes
Beauty for Ashes (2024)
The Elysian Singers; Sam Laughton (conductor)
Featuring Beati quorum via
‘Beauty for Ashes’ is a unique collection of unrecorded music from some of the UK’s foremost choral composers.
Signum Classics • Spotify • iTunes
Queen of Hearts (2024)
The Gesualdo Six; Owain Park (director)
Featuring Prière pour Marie
“Music intricately composed and moments of the most tender beauty, delivered by seven male singers with an unflagging ensemble spirit” – The Times
Purchase CDs • Hyperion • Spotify • iTunes
Sword in the Soul (2023)
London Choral Sinfonia; Michael Waldron (conductor)
Featuring Hail, gladdening Light
“Owain Park has written and arranged much for LCS through his position as Composer in Residence. Hail Gladdening Light packs an emotional punch in a short and restrained setting. The solo plainsong-inspired melody against more harmonically advanced wordless choir gives a nice melodic and harmonic link to Grier.”
Orchid Classics • Spotify • iTunes
Morning Star (2023)
The Gesualdo Six; Owain Park (director)
Featuring O send out thy light and Owain’s arrangements of Bethlehem, of noblest cities and The Three Kings.
Listen to Owain speak about this album on the Gramophone podcast here.
Purchase CDs • Hyperion • Spotify • iTunes
Carols for Choirs 6 (2023)
The Oxford Choir; The Oxford University Music Press
Featuring A babe is born
“Carols for Choirs 6 brings together carols from both the emerging talents in choral music today, and world-famous choral composers, to provide a complete resource of contemporary carols for the festive season. This new anthology forms part of the iconic Carols for Choirs series and has been published in celebration of the Oxford University Press Music Department’s Centenary in 2023.“
Oxford University Press Music • Spotify • iTunes
Palimpsest: New Works from Old for Saxophone and Choir (2023)
The Choir of Canterbury Cathedral; David Newsholme (conductor); Sam Corkin (saxophonist)
Featuring Tota Pulchra Es
Signum Classics • Spotify • iTunes
The Very Best Time of Year (2023)
Cambridge Chorale; Owain Park (conductor)
Featuring The Holy Child; A Winter Bloom; Here is the little door; I wonder as I wander; & The Very Best Time of Year (Rutter arr. Park)
Spotify • Purchase a copy • iTunes
Revoiced (2022)
Corvus Consort; Ferio Saxophone Quartet; Freddie Crowley
Featuring Miserere after Allegri
‘Revoiced’ explores the magical blend of saxophones and voices, bringing new colours to music from the Baroque and Renaissance, recasting contemporary choral works into a fresh soundworld, and inspiring the creation of new music.
Chandos Records • Spotify • iTunes
Battle Cry: She Speaks (2022)
Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano); Toby Carr (theorbo)
BBC Music Magazine 2023 – Vocal Award Winner
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2023 – Concept Album Winner
Featuring Battle Cry (I – Boudicca; II – Philomela in the forest; III – A singer’s ode to Sappho; & IV – Marietta)
“Park’s work, to evocative texts by Georgia Way, is a hugely powerful centrepiece, sometimes Britten-like in its gaunt transparency, its folk allusions, and monumentally dramatic in the lengthy final song, Marietta.” – The Scotsman
Delphian Records • Spotify • iTunes
In Winter’s House (2022)
Tenebrae; Nigel Short (director)
Featuring O magnum mysterium
“A technically superb display of a largely unfamiliar, and imaginatively chosen, festive music. One to warm the chilliest evenings” – BBC Music Magazine
Signum Records • Spotify • iTunes
When Sleep Comes: Evening Meditations for Voices & Saxophone (2022)
Tenebrae; Nigel Short (director); Christian Forshaw (saxophonist)
Featuring Night Prayer
“…“straight” takes on music by Victoria and Owain Park are beautifully done…the performances can’t be faulted, and the acoustic of All Hallows, Gospel Oak, casts a warm glow over proceedings” – The Arts Desk
Signum Records • Spotify • iTunes
Lux Aeterna (2022)
The Gesualdo Six; Owain Park (director)
Featuring Sequence: In Parenthesis
To mark the Centenary of the Armistice of World War One and innspired by David Jones’s epic poem, ‘In Parenthesis’ narrates the experiences of Private John Ball. You can watch The Gesualdo Six’s short film here.
Purchase CDs • Hyperion • Spotify • iTunes
Two Voices (2021)
Fair Oriana: Angela Hicks & Penelope Appleyard
Featuring Midnight Poem
Listen to Owain speak about the piece here.
VOCES8 Records • Spotify • iTunes
Isolation Songbook (2021)
Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano); Michael Craddock (baritone); Alexander Soares (piano)
Featuring 18th April
“Witty and touching in equal measure, this personal but deeply relatable lockdown project from a young husband-and-wife-to-be stemmed from Owain Park’s appropriately bitter-sweet setting of a poem which Charlston wrote for her fiancé to mark what would have been their wedding-day last year” – Presto Classical Editor’s Choice (March 2021)
Delphian Records • Spotify • iTunes
Images (2021)
Anna Lapwood (organ)
“Calling on Owain Park for new music is benefitting not only Anna Lapwood but also the musical genre as a whole. New music can be original, unexpected, and compelling all in one, without pushing people away… an adept understanding of how to make something new within a familiar frame of reference.
“The seven-minute piece is a dramatic piece of musical storytelling full of contrasting colours and textures that are both intriguing enough to trigger the curious and sufficiently familiar in terms of musical language to delight the listener.“ – Jon Jacob, Thoroughly Good
Signum Records • Spotify • iTunes
When love speaks (2020)
The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader
Featuring:
- Shakespeare Love Songs
- Louisa
- Holy is the True Light
- Sing to me, windchimes
- Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time
Delphian website • Spotify • iTunes
Fading (2020)
The Gesualdo Six; Owain Park (director)
Featuring Phos hilaron
“Ingeniously programmed and impeccably delivered, with that undefinable excitement that comes from a group of musicians working absolutely as one, The Gesualdo Six’s ‘Fading’ is startlingly, urgently excellent. The quality of the singing – the blend and bass-anchored balance, the rounded, unforced tone, the control from solo voices – is exhilarating” -Alexandra Coghlan, Gramophone
Purchase CDs • Hyperion website • Spotify • iTunes
Park: Choral Works (2018)
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge & Stephen Layton
15 tracks; from The Wings of the Wind to The spirit breathes
Nominated for BBC Music Magazine Award 2019
Hyperion website • Spotify • iTunes
Christmas (2019)
The Gesualdo Six; Owain Park (director)
Featuring On the infancy of our Saviour and Owain’s arrangement of Vaughan William’s The truth sent from above
“The close recording of the The Gesualdo Six on ‘Christmas’ reveals the tightness of their ensemble in repertoire ranging from Praetorius to Cheryl Frances-Hoad. Jonathan Harvey’s The Annunciation and director Owain Park’s vibrant On the Infancy of our Saviour compliment well-chosen pieces, making for a delightful and informative listening experience – and a thoughtful stocking filler!” – Choir and Organ (November 2019)
Purchase CDs • Hyperion • Spotify • iTunes
A Rose Magnificat (2018)
Gabrieli Consort & Paul McCreesh
Featuring Ave Maris Stella
Winner of BBC Music Magazine Award 2019
Hyperion website • Spotify • iTunes
Path of Miracles & Footsteps (2017)
Tenebrae & Nigel Short
Featuring Footsteps
“Imaginatively and skilfully written for voices” – MusicWeb International
Signum Records • Spotify • iTunes
Upheld by Stillness (2016)
Ora & Suzi Digby
Featuring Upheld by stillness
“Owain Park’s meditative Upheld by Stillness takes its inspiration from Byrd’s Sanctus and Benedictus, weaving a work of flickering movement and unshowy invention.” – Gramophone
Yulefest! (2015)
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge & Stephen Layton
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day, Shepherds’ Cradle Song, The very best time of year, Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Hyperion website • Spotify • iTunes
The Hearts’ Voice (2013)
RSCM Millennium Youth Choir, David Ogden & Daniel Moult
Let Thine Heart Keep Thine Commandments
Owain’s piece was runner-up in a the composition competition run by the Kings James Bible Trust and the RSCM.
Jingle Wells (2012)
Wells Cathedral Choir; Matthew Owens (director); Jonathan Vaughan & Owain Park (organ)
Featuring Cradle Lullaby
Regent Records • Spotify • iTunes
All times and seasons (2011)
The Choir of Westbury on Trym Parish Church; Richard Johnson (organ); & David Ogden (director)
Featuring Confirmation Prayer
iTunes • Church • Soundcloud
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