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The Triumphs of Oriana
Various composers

The King's Singers

The Triumphs of Oriana

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212008225
Catnr: SIGCD 082
Release date: 01 October 2006
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Signum Classics
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0635212008225
Catalogue number
SIGCD 082
Release date
01 October 2006
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The King's Singers continue with this outstanding collection of madrigals from 23 composers including Thomas Morley, John Bennet, Michael Cavendish and Thomas Weelkes.

A collection of 25 madrigals from 23 different composers - from the famous to the obscure - make up this Elizabethan curiosity, published in 1601 by Thomas Morley. A musical dedication to Queen Elizabeth I, The Triumphs of Oriana displays the talents of English songwriters, long overshadowed by their European counterparts, conjuring up an image of an idealised and mythical England of old.

Een muzikaal eerbetoon aan Koningin Elizabeth door de beste Engelse componisten
The King’s Singers zetten hun voortreffelijke reeks opnames voort met deze uitstekende collectie van madrigalen door 23 componisten, onder wie Thomas Morley, John Bennet, Michael Cavendish en Thomas Weelkes.

In 1598 verleende Koningin Elizabeth aan Morley het monopolie op de muziekdruk. Hij wilde deze gulheid schijnbaar vergoeden door een collectie muziek ter ere van de Koningin samen te stellen. Deze collectie, The Triumphs of Oriana, met 25 madrigalen van 23 verschillende componisten, presenteert een geïdealiseerd en mythisch Engeland, met Elizabeth, in de gedaante van Oriana, als de terecht vereerde heerser van een idyllisch land. Het is niet alleen maar muzikale vleierij: de collectie toont de talenten van Engelse componisten.

The Thriumps of Oriana is gebaseerd op de Venetiaanse madrigalencollectie Il Trionfo di Dori, met 29 madrigalen van evenveel componisten. Morley slaagde er bijna in de Italiaanse collectie te imiteren. De madrigalen werden gecomponeerd door de beste Engelse kerkmusici, waarvan enkele nu nog steeds bekend zijn. De Engelse componisten werden lange tijd overschaduwd door hun collega’s op het continent. Morley wilde met zijn collectie aantonen dat Engelse componisten zich met de Italiaanse konden meten. Wat andere landen ook deden, Engeland kon dat net zo goed, of zelfs beter.

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The King's Singers

The King’s Singers have represented the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over fifty years. They are renowned for their unrivalled technique, versatility and skill in performance, and for their consummate musicianship, drawing both on the group’s rich heritage and its pioneering spirit to create an extraordinary wealth of original works and unique collaborations. What has always distinguished the group is their comfort in an unprecedented range of styles and genres, pushing the boundaries of their repertoire, while at the same time honouring their origins in the British choral tradition. They are known and loved around the world, and appear regularly in major cities, festivals and venues across Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, including Carnegie Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Mozarteum Salzburg, Tonhalle Zurich, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Edinburgh International Festival, Helsinki Music Centre, Sydney Opera...
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The King’s Singers have represented the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over fifty years. They are renowned for their unrivalled technique, versatility and skill in performance, and for their consummate musicianship, drawing both on the group’s rich heritage and its pioneering spirit to create an extraordinary wealth of original works and unique collaborations.
What has always distinguished the group is their comfort in an unprecedented range of styles and genres, pushing the boundaries of their repertoire, while at the same time honouring their origins in the British choral tradition. They are known and loved around the world, and appear regularly in major cities, festivals and venues across Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, including Carnegie Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Mozarteum Salzburg, Tonhalle Zurich, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Edinburgh International Festival, Helsinki Music Centre, Sydney Opera House, Tokyo Opera City and the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing. They also work with orchestras, recently including the NDR Radiophilharmonie and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, with whom they performed a specially commissioned work by Sir James MacMillan.
9 The King’s Singers’ extensive discography has led to numerous awards including two Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a place in Gramophone magazine’s inaugural Hall of Fame. As part of their 50th anniversary celebrations in 2018, the group undertook a series of major tours worldwide, supporting the release of a special anniversary album GOLD (also nominated for a Grammy Award), which featured important works in the group’s history and new commissions by Bob Chilcott, John Rutter and Nico Muhly.
This commitment to creating a new repertoire has always been central to the group, with over 200 commissioned works by many leading composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries, including John Tavener, Judith Bingham, Eric Whitacre, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Krzysztof Penderecki and Toru Takemitsu. These join a unique body of close-harmony and a cappella arrangements, including those by individual King’s Singers past and present. Many of their early collaborators’ own experience with brass bands helped to inform the distinct ‘King’s Singers sound’ and a large number of their commissioned works and arrangements are available in their own signature series with Hal Leonard, selling over two million copies worldwide. A key to the group’s success has been their ability to evolve and innovate over many years – and through 28 individual members – while always retaining this special sound and musical integrity.
They also lead educational workshops and residential courses across the world, working with groups and individuals on their techniques and approaches to ensemble singing. In 2018 they founded The King’s Singers Global Foundation to provide a platform for the creation of new music across multiple disciplines, coach a new generation of performers and provide musical opportunities to people of all backgrounds.
The King’s Singers were formed in 1968, when six recent choral scholars from King’s College, Cambridge gave a concert at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. By chance, the group was made up of two countertenors, a tenor, two baritones and a bass, and the group has maintained this formation ever since that debut.
Patrick Dunachie countertenor Edward Button countertenor Julian Gregory tenor Christopher Bruerton baritone Nick Ashby baritone Jonathan Howard bass
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