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The Best of The King's Singers
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The King's Singers

The Best of The King's Singers

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212029725
Catnr: SIGCD 297
Release date: 01 October 2012
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212029725
Catalogue number
SIGCD 297
Release date
01 October 2012
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About the album

As part of Signum's 15th anniversary year this celebratory collection of The Best of 'The King's Singers' has been released – a double album with a collection of songs drawn from their now extensive catalogue on Signum.

The first CD includes titles from Christmas (the groups debut album with Signum, released in 2004), along with music from Landscape and Time, Treason and Dischord, Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories, Sacred Bridges, Siglio d’Oro, Romance du soir, From the heart, High Flight and the 2012 release Royal Rhymes and Rounds.

The second CD presents songs from four albums: Six, their most recent light album Swimming over London and the Grammy® Award winning Simple Gifts.

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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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Disc #1
01.
Onnis on inimene, from Taaveti laulud
02:11
(Cyrillus Kreek) The King's Singers
02.
Gloria, from Mass for Four Voices
05:53
(William Byrd) The King's Singers
03.
In Monte Oliveti, from 1st Nocturn
04:42
(Carlo Gesualdo) The King's Singers
04.
Bogoroditsye Dyevo
01:03
(Arvo Pärt) The King's Singers
05.
Civitas sancti tui
05:06
(William Byrd) The King's Singers
06.
The Lamb
03:23
(John Tavener) The King's Singers
07.
Mon Dieu, j'ai en toi esperance (Psalm 7)
04:38
(Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck) The King's Singers
08.
My heart is a holy place
04:02
(Patricia van Ness) The King's Singers
09.
Versa est in luctum
03:24
(Juan Gutierrez de Pailla) The King's Singers
10.
In ieiunio et fletu
02:50
(Diogo Dias Melgas) The King's Singers
11.
Shir hama'a lot Ashrei koi yere (Psalm 128)
03:53
(Salamone Rossi Hebreo) The King's Singers
12.
Esti Dal
03:16
(Zoltan Kodaly) The King's Singers
13.
Rakastava
07:45
(Jean Sibelius) The King's Singers
14.
Calme des Nuits, Op 68, No.1
03:12
(Camille Saint-Saëns) The King's Singers
15.
Music,When Soft Voices Die
02:14
(Edward Bairstow) The King's Singers
16.
Lightly she whipped o'er the dales
03:13
(John Mundy) The King's Singers
17.
The Silver Swan
01:46
(Orlando Gibbons) The King's Singers
18.
Days, from Even such is time
01:59
(Bob Chilcott) The King's Singers
19.
Lux Aurumque
03:41
(Eric Whitacre) The King's Singers
20.
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
03:00
(Libby Larsen) The King's Singers
21.
Lullabye (Goodnight, my angel)
04:04
(Billy Joel) The King's Singers
22.
You are the new day
02:40
(John David) The King's Singers
23.
She's always a woman to me
03:22
(Billy Joel) The King's Singers
24.
Greensleeves
03:03
(Trad English) The King's Singers
25.
Valparaiso
03:49
(Sting) The King's Singers
26.
Hide and seek
05:12
(Imogen Heap) The King's Singers
27.
Home
03:53
(Michael Bublé) The King's Singers
28.
Straighten up and fly right
04:08
(Nat King Cole) The King's Singers
29.
The gift to be simple
02:09
(Trad American ) The King's Singers
30.
Blue Skies
03:26
(Irving Berlin) The King's Singers
31.
Recipe for Love
03:07
(Harry Cornick) The King's Singers
32.
Hallelujah
05:03
(Leonard Cohen) The King's Singers
33.
Swing low, sweet chariot
03:02
(Trad American ) The King's Singers
34.
I'm yours
03:39
(Jason Mraz) The King's Singers
35.
Silent Love
03:26
(Mia Makaroff) The King's Singers
36.
Blackbird
02:49
(John Lennon) The King's Singers
37.
After the Goldrush
03:06
(Neil Young) The King's Singers
38.
Out of the woods
04:12
(Sinead Lohan) The King's Singers
39.
Swimming over London
03:12
(Bob Chilcott) The King's Singers
40.
Steal away
02:56
(Spiritual) The King's Singers
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