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The Best of The King's Singers
Various composers

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 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...
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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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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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