The King's Singers Collection by The King's Singers

Various composers

The King's Singers

The King's Singers Collection

Price: € 25.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212012024
Catnr: SIGCD 120
Release date: 01 April 2008
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Label
Signum Classics

UPC
0635212012024

Catalogue number
SIGCD 120

Release date
01 April 2008

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About the album

To celebrate The King’s Singers 40th anniversary year, the group are releasing five of their bestselling Signum released albums from the last 6 years in a fantastic new CD boxed-set collection.

The King’s Singers Collection includes Tallis’s masterpiece, Spem in alium, alongside magical works of our day (Landscape & Time), the overwhelming beauty of William Byrd (Treason & Dischord) and Gesualdo and with some ‘icing on the cake’ - King’s Singers lollipops on Six.

After 40 years The King's Singers show no sign of slowing down. The five albums in this set were made in the space of three years and display the diversity and flexibility of the world's premiere a cappella ensemble.

Gesualdo: Powerful and harmonically daring music, the dark texts for Holy Week resonated with the Italian prince Carlo Gesualdo's own life, which was mired in murder, guilt and obsession. His music sounds as fresh as the day he composed it.

Six: Classic jazz and pop arrangements plus a commission from Joby Talbot, displaying the group's famous blended sound, perfect intonation and customary style.

1605: Follow the story of how a group of young religious zealots tried to change the faith of a nation by force. With music from Catholics and Protestants, this fascinating programme ends with a commission from Francis Pott which finds grim resonances with today's religious intolerances.

Spem: Historians may not know exactly why Tallis wrote Spem in alium, but nobody disagrees that this majestic 40-part motet is one of the glories of renaissance art.

Landscape & Time: We are all shaped by the surroundings and age in which we live. Listen to music, including five commissions, which give us different perspectives from England, Scotland, America, Japan, Hungary, Finland and Estonia.

Fantastische verzamelcollectie ter ere van The King’s Singers jubileum
Ter ere van The King’s Singers veertigjarige jubileum in 2008 bracht de groep vijf van haar bestverkochte Signum albums van de laatste zes jaar uit in een fantastische nieuwe verzamelcollectie. Na veertig jaar laten The King’s Singers nog altijd geen teken van vermoeidheid zien. De vijf albums in deze collectie werden in drie jaar tijd opgenomen en laten de diversiteit en flexibiliteit zien van een van ’s werelds beste a capella ensembles.

Gesualdo bevat krachtige en harmonisch gewaagde muziek. De duistere teksten van Holy Week geven het leven weer van de Italiaanse prins Carlo Gesualdo die was verwikkeld in moord, schuld en obsessie. De muziek klinkt net zo fris als op de dag dat ze gecomponeerd werd.

Six bevat klassieke jazz en pop arrangementen plus een bijdrage van Joby Talbot, waarin hij het beroemde meerstemmige geluid van
de groep laat horen, met een perfecte intonatie en een eigen stijl.

1605 volgt het verhaal van een groep jonge religieuze fanatiekelingen die het geloof van een natie probeerde te veranderen door middel van geweld. Met muziek van katholieken en protestanten eindigt dit fascinerende album met een bijdrage van Francis Pott, die grimmige overeenkomsten ziet met de hedendaagse religieuze taboes.

Van Spem weten historici niet precies waarom Tallis het schreef, maar het is zeker dat dit majestueuze 40-delige motet één van dehoogtepunten is van de renaissance kunst.

Landscape & Time, tot slot, gaat over het feit dat we allemaal gevormd zijn door de omgeving en tijd waarin we leven. Deze muziek geeft verschillende perspectieven weer vanuit Engeland, Schotland, Amerika, Hongarije, Finland en Estland.

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The King's Singers

The King's Singers have set the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over fifty-five years. They are renowned for their unrivalled technique, musicianship and versatility, which stem from the group’s rich heritage and its drive to bring an extraordinary range of new and unique works, collaborations and recordings to life. 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. The King’s Singers were officially 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 stuck to this formation ever since.
In the last few years, the group has recorded and released a series of diverse, collaborative albums that showcase the huge breadth of their repertoire. One honours two great English Renaissance composers: Thomas Weelkes and William Byrd; another is centred around Romantic music; a third honours 100 years of Disney, with 28 brand-new arrangements of iconic Disney songs; a fourth is a double-album focussed on the group’s library of signature ‘close harmony’ arrangements; and another celebrates the group’s extraordinary body of commissioned new music. Growing the global canon of choral music has always been one of the group's key aims, and The King’s Singers have now commissioned more than 300 works by many of the most prominent composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. These composers include John Tavener, Joe Hisaishi, Judith Bingham, Eric Whitacre, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Penderecki and Toru Takemitsu. All this new music joins their body of bespoke a cappella arrangements, including many by King’s Singers past and present.
Alongside their demanding performing and recording schedule – with over 100 concerts worldwide every season – the group leads educational workshops and residential courses across the globe, working with ensembles on their approaches to group singing. To mark their 50th anniversary in 2018, they founded The King’s Singers Global Foundation (based in the USA), to provide a platform to support the creation of new music across multiple disciplines, to coach a new generation of performers, and to provide musical opportunities to people of all backgrounds.

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