in Choir & Organ (Jan, 2018)
The idea here was to create a 50th-anniversary recording that paid tribute to the history and past members of the King’s Singers, while still moving ahead creatively. It took three discs to fit all that in. Recorded as-live and sometimes with an audience, the singing is as seemingly effortless as ever, even when some of the arrangements of contemporary material (Billy Joel, KT Tunstall, U2) come across as rather effortful. Dividing multi-disc compilations thematically seems to be the current preference. It half-works here, with both ‘Spiritual’ and ‘Secular’ interpreted quite eclectically, and ‘Close Harmony’ potentially covering the whole project. Some performances are gilded rather than pure gold, but the box-set is …
Gold – The King’s Singers
We Are
And I Love Her
Don’t Worry About Me
Kelele
And So It Goes
Down with Love
All of Me
Shenandoah
Lamorna
Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy
See You Again
Alice in Wonderland
Black Horse and The Cherry Tree
Danny Boy
I’ll Follow The Sun
Bobby Shaftoe
Love Is Here To Stay
Scarborough Fair
That Lonesome Road
Loch Lomond
Down by the Riverside
MLK
The Prayer of King Henry VI
Sing Joyfully
Thou, My Love, Art Fair
Sicut cervus
In manus tuas
Master of Music
Musica Dei donum
Abendlied
The Bell Both Toll
Quatre petites prieres de Saint Franc?ois d’Assise
Das ist je gewisslich wahr
Morgengesang
This Marriage
Psalm 124
Versa est in luctum
Rest
Tutivillus
The Bluebird
Be Not Afeard
Le papillon et la fleur
Dessus le marche d’ Arras
Though Amaryllis Dance in Green
Lagrimas de mi consuelo
Handmade Proverbs
Les Marins de Kermor
Con amores, la mi madre
All meine Herzgedanken
Die Nacht
Revecy venir du Printans
Romance du soir
Horizons
Plaisir d’amour
Come, Blessed Bird
The Little Green Lane
Das G’laut zu Speyer
Basiez moi!
Gentil senora mia
Quand tu dors pres de moi
The King’s Singers
35,90€
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