Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Here is “Put out into the deep” by David Bednall, from our album Wishing Tree. 🌳
🎧 Stream, spin, and discover: https://linktr.ee/TheGesualdoSix
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Bristol-based composer David Bednall chose a passage from the Gospel of St Luke to set for his commission from Opus Anglicanum, the five-voice British group notable for commissioning many new works. The story describes Jesus filling the doubtful fishermen’s nets, empty from the previous night’s efforts. Put out into the deep is carefully crafted, beginning with a chant-inspired melody which develops as the voices are gently revealed. Plainchant laces the work, even appearing as two Latin phrases while the English text is suspended—the characters taking a break from their work—with rippling scalic melodies. The harmonies reflect the influence of twentieth-century British composers such as Edward Bairstow and Herbert Howells. [Owain Park © 2026]
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💿 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 “Put out into the deep” by David Bednall, from our album Wishing Tree. 🌳
🎧 Stream, spin, and discover: https://linktr.ee/TheGesualdoSix
*****
Bristol-based composer David Bednall chose a passage from the Gospel of St Luke to set for his commission from Opus Anglicanum, the five-voice British group notable for commissioning many new works. The story describes Jesus filling the doubtful fishermen’s nets, empty from the previous night’s efforts. Put out into the deep is carefully crafted, beginning with a chant-inspired melody which develops as the voices are gently revealed. Plainchant laces the work, even appearing as two Latin phrases while the English text is suspended—the characters taking a break from their work—with rippling scalic melodies. The harmonies reflect the influence of twentieth-century British composers such as Edward Bairstow and Herbert Howells. [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
