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Live at the BBC Proms
Various composers

The King's Singers

Live at the BBC Proms

Price: € 13.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212015025
Catnr: SIGCD 150
Release date: 01 December 2008
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Signum Classics
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0635212015025
Catalogue number
SIGCD 150
Release date
01 December 2008
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The King's Singers celebrate their 40-year anniversary with a live BBC Proms performance from the Royal Albert Hall. This disc demonstrates the skill, flair and versatility you would come to expect from a King's Singers performance, sampling the besrt from their vast repertoire. The King's Singers have maintained their place at the apex of a cappella singing and are amongst the world's elite classical performers.

Following this concert The Daily telegraph said "every edge was bevelled smooth" and the Guardian described it as "flawlessly realised".

Vlekkeloze live-opname met het beste uit het repertoire van The King’s Singers
The King’s Singers vierden hun veertigjarig jubileum met een uitvoering op de BBC Proms in de Royal Albert Hall. Dit album met de live-opname van het concert toont de bekwaamheid, flair en veelzijdigheid die luisteraars van een optreden van The King’s Singers verwachten, en bevat de beste werken uit hun omvangrijke repertoire. The King’s Singers hebben hun plaats op het toppunt van a capellazang behouden en maken deel uit van de elite van klassieke musici.

The King’s Singers over het programma: “De Proms van 2008 richtten zich op volksliederen, dus kozen we ervoor om met voorbeelden uit Frankrijk en Engeland te beginnen en te eindigen. (…) Wij werden verzocht het virtuoze La Guerre van Clément Janequin, wiens 450e sterfdag werd herdacht, uit te voeren, en voegden er enkele andere favoriete Franse madrigalen uit de Renaissance aan toe. Voor het vertegenwoordigen van een hedendaags opdrachtwerk hebben we gekozen voor John McCabe’s prachtige Scenes in America Deserta, een sfeervol stuk dat het 3000 man tellende publiek in zijn ban hield. Ten slotte kozen we voor Victoriaanse partsongs, die oorspronkelijk gezongen werden tijdens kleine bijeenkomsten. (…) Het zeer bijzondere concert werd afgesloten met de toegift The Long Day Closes. We hopen dat luisteraars ervan zullen genieten.”

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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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01.
Chansons Françaises, Op. 130: La bell' si nous étions
01:13
(Francis Poulenc) The King's Singers
02.
Chansons Françaises, Op. 130: La belle se sied au pied de la tour
01:34
(Francis Poulenc) The King's Singers
03.
Chansons Françaises, Op. 130: Clic, clac, dansez sabots
01:58
(Francis Poulenc) The King's Singers
04.
Chansons Françaises, Op. 130: Pilons l'orge
00:42
(Francis Poulenc) The King's Singers
05.
Chansons Françaises, Op. 130: Ah! Mon beau laboureur
03:34
(Francis Poulenc) The King's Singers
06.
Chansons Françaises, Op. 130: Les Tisserands
01:56
(Francis Poulenc) The King's Singers
07.
Scenes in America Deserta
14:11
(John McCabe) The King's Singers
08.
Dessus le marche d'Arras
01:28
(Orlande de Lassus) The King's Singers
09.
Il est bel et bon
01:03
(Pierre Passereau) The King's Singers
10.
Toutes les nuitz
03:00
(Orlande de Lassus) The King's Singers
11.
La Guerre
07:11
(Clément Janequin) The King's Singers
12.
Hears not my Phyllis
02:47
(John Rogers) The King's Singers
13.
Phillis is my only Joy
01:49
(John William Hobs) The King's Singers
14.
The Little Green Lane
02:05
(Traditional) The King's Singers
15.
The Goslings
02:47
(Frederick Bridge) The King's Singers
16.
Greensleeves
03:11
(Traditional) The King's Singers
17.
Blow Away the Morning Dew
01:56
(Traditional) The King's Singers
18.
The Turtle Dove
03:30
(Traditional) The King's Singers
19.
Widdicombe Fair
03:42
(Traditional) The King's Singers
20.
The Long Day Closes
04:22
(Arthur Sullivan) The King's Singers
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