Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Here is “Fantasia on English Children's Songs” by Owain Park, from our album Wishing Tree. 🌳
🎧 Stream, spin, and discover: https://linktr.ee/TheGesualdoSix
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Fantasia on English children’s songs was commissioned by Opus Anglicanum in September 2014 and first performed later that year. From the outset, I imagined a piece animated by a sense of play, in which a children’s choir would occasionally join the chorus. Out of a more dream-like opening, fragments of familiar tunes begin to surface: Sing a song of sixpence, Old MacDonald had a farm, Mary, Mary, quite contrary, and Oranges and lemons, framed by the call of Boys and girls come out to play. These melodies are overlapped and gently reshaped, often sounding at the same time. My hope was to preserve something of their innocence, while layering them to create soft, unexpected dissonances. Elsewhere the songs move together, forming a brighter, more animated texture. [Owain Park © 2026]
*****
💿 Order your copy: thegesualdosix.co.uk/shop/wishing-tree-2026
Performed by The Gesualdo Six
Directed by Owain Park
Video by Hafren Park & Joseph Wicks (G6 Studio)
Audio by David Hinitt & Adrian Peacock for Hyperion Records
#ChoralMusic #acapella
Here is “Fantasia on English Children's Songs” by Owain Park, from our album Wishing Tree. 🌳
🎧 Stream, spin, and discover: https://linktr.ee/TheGesualdoSix
*****
Fantasia on English children’s songs was commissioned by Opus Anglicanum in September 2014 and first performed later that year. From the outset, I imagined a piece animated by a sense of play, in which a children’s choir would occasionally join the chorus. Out of a more dream-like opening, fragments of familiar tunes begin to surface: Sing a song of sixpence, Old MacDonald had a farm, Mary, Mary, quite contrary, and Oranges and lemons, framed by the call of Boys and girls come out to play. These melodies are overlapped and gently reshaped, often sounding at the same time. My hope was to preserve something of their innocence, while layering them to create soft, unexpected dissonances. Elsewhere the songs move together, forming a brighter, more animated texture. [Owain Park © 2026]
*****
💿 Order your copy: thegesualdosix.co.uk/shop/wishing-tree-2026
Performed by The Gesualdo Six
Directed by Owain Park
Video by Hafren Park & Joseph Wicks (G6 Studio)
Audio by David Hinitt & Adrian Peacock for Hyperion Records
#ChoralMusic #acapella
