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The King's Singers

Gold

Price: € 22.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212050026
Catnr: SIGCD 500
Release date: 03 November 2017
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212050026
Catalogue number
SIGCD 500
Release date
03 November 2017
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About the album

The King’s Singers celebrate their 50th anniversary with a celebratory 3-CD set, combining three complete programmes of Close Harmony, Spiritual and Secular pieces.

De King's Singers op een muzikale reis

Het maakt niet uit waar het vandaan komt, door wie het gecomponeerd is en wanneer. Tijdens de viering van hun 50ste jubileum nemen de King's Singers hun luisteraars mee op een nieuwe muzikale reis: een die hulde brengt aan het erfgoed, maar tegelijkertijd de diversiteit van muziek toont. Van oud tot modern, serieus tot luchthartig, verwacht tot onverwacht.

In 1968 kwamen de zes originele King's Singers samen door hun gezamenlijke liefde voor zingen. Nu, vijftig jaar later, vieren de King's Singers hun jubileum met het album Gold. Dit album brengt de muzikale reis van de King's Singers in kaart met muziek die hun carrière de afgelopen 50 jaar heeft gedefinieerd.

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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.
We Are
02:52
(Bob Chilcott) The King's Singers
02.
And I Love Her
03:06
(John Lennon, Paul McCartney) The King's Singers
03.
Don't Worry About Me
03:40
(Frances Cooke) The King's Singers
04.
Kelele
03:10
(Angélique Kidjo) The King's Singers
05.
And So It Goes
03:46
(Billy Joel) The King's Singers
06.
Down with Love
02:56
(Yip Harburg, Harold Arlen) The King's Singers
07.
All of Me
05:44
(John Legend) The King's Singers
08.
Shenandoah
03:13
(Traditional) The King's Singers
09.
Lamorna
01:52
(Traditional) The King's Singers
10.
Some Folks? Lives Roll Easy
03:27
(Paul Simon) The King's Singers
11.
See You Again
02:41
(Charlie Puth, Wiz Khalifa) The King's Singers
12.
Alice in Wonderland
02:41
(Alan Clare) The King's Singers
13.
Black Horse and The Cherry Tree
03:26
(KT Tunstall) The King's Singers
14.
Danny Boy
03:17
(traditional) The King's Singers
15.
I'll Follow The Sun
02:29
(John Lennon, Paul McCartney) The King's Singers
16.
Bobby Shaftoe
01:13
(traditional) The King's Singers
17.
Love Is Here To Stay
02:38
(George Gershwin) The King's Singers
18.
Scarborough Fair
03:17
(traditional) The King's Singers
19.
That Lonesome Road
02:48
(James Taylor) The King's Singers
20.
Loch Lomond
03:06
(Traditional) The King's Singers
21.
Down by the Riverside
03:59
(Traditional) The King's Singers
22.
MLK
02:19
(Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.) The King's Singers

Disc #2
01.
The Prayer of King Henry VI
01:51
(Henry George Lay) The King's Singers
02.
Sing Joyfully
02:26
(William Byrd) The King's Singers
03.
Thou, My Love, Art Fair
03:39
(Bob Chilcott) The King's Singers
04.
Sicut cervus
02:55
(Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) The King's Singers
05.
In manus tuas
02:04
(Thomas Tallis) The King's Singers
06.
Master of Music
05:53
(Toby Hession) The King's Singers
07.
Musica Dei donum
04:14
(Orlandus Lassus) The King's Singers
08.
Abendlied
02:54
(Josef Rheinberger) The King's Singers
09.
The Bell Both Toll
03:13
(Richard Rodney Bennett) The King's Singers
10.
Quatre petites prieres de Saint Francois d?Assise
06:26
(Francis Poulenc) The King's Singers
11.
Das ist je gewißlich wahr
04:35
(Heinrich Schütz) The King's Singers
12.
Morgengesang
02:23
(Max Reger) The King's Singers
13.
This Marriage
02:23
(Eric Whitacre) The King's Singers
14.
Psalm 124
02:33
(Salamone Rossi Hebreo) The King's Singers
15.
Versa est in luctum
04:28
(Alonso Lobo) The King's Singers
16.
Rest
03:28
(Ralph Vaughan Williams) The King's Singers
17.
Tutivillus
02:08
(Geoffrey Poole) The King's Singers
18.
The Bluebird
03:40
(Charles Villiers Stanford) The King's Singers

Disc #3
01.
Be Not Afeard
02:49
(John Rutter) The King's Singers
02.
Le papillon et la fleur
02:47
(Gabriel Fauré) The King's Singers
03.
Dessus le marche d? Arras
01:31
(Orlandus Lassus) The King's Singers
04.
Though Amaryllis Dance in Green
01:11
(William Byrd) The King's Singers
05.
Lagrimas de mi consuelo
04:09
(Juan Vásquez) The King's Singers
06.
Handmade Proverbs
05:29
(Toru Takemitsu) The King's Singers
07.
Les Marins de Kermor
07:51
(Camille Saint-Saëns) The King's Singers
08.
Con amores, la mi madre
02:46
(Juan de Anchieta) The King's Singers
09.
All meine Herzgedanken
02:54
(Johannes Brahms) The King's Singers
10.
Die Nacht
02:49
(Franz Schubert) The King's Singers
11.
Revecy venir du Printans
02:47
(Claude le Jeune) The King's Singers
12.
Romance du soir
02:43
(Camille Saint-Saëns) The King's Singers
13.
Horizons
07:04
(Peter Louis van Dijk) The King's Singers
14.
Plaisir d?amour
02:58
(Jean-Paul-Égide Martini) The King's Singers
15.
Come, Blessed Bird
02:27
(Edward Johnson) The King's Singers
16.
The Little Green Lane
02:19
(Traditional) The King's Singers
17.
Das G?laut zu Speyer
01:05
(Ludwig Senfl) The King's Singers
18.
Basiez moi!
02:04
(Josquin des Prez) The King's Singers
19.
Gentil senora mia
04:17
(Josquin des Prez) The King's Singers
20.
Quand tu dors pres de moi
03:34
(Georges Auric) The King's Singers
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