It is the presence of the always innovative King's Singers that will draw buyers to this CD, but the album equally represents the efforts of the German-based ensemble Sarband. With a partly Turkish membership, Sarband has launched the idealistic project of making music that incorporates features of Near Eastern traditions as well as those from the ...
The "Chant" boom of the 1990s revived interest in sacred works, and several contemporary composers of traditionally based choral music also benefited from the phenomenon. Such devoutly religious composers as Henryk Górecki and John Tavener, among others, were accorded special attention for their settings of ecclesiastical texts, and several choral ...
The King's Singers, the male vocal sextet, perform with extraordinary vocal blend, purity of tone, technical security, and interpretive sensitivity. This CD brings together choral music from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century that is related to the broad themes of landscape and time. The collection contains texts related to specific ...
The King's Singers originally made their reputation in the 1960s on the strength of their interpretations of Renaissance music. Given their wide popularity over the years, and their contractual obligations to major companies such as EMI and RCA, the King's Singers have been required to branch out into areas, such as the music of the Beatles and ...
Peter Dickinson's 2005 CD on Albany, Pianos Voices and Brass is an odd collection of ADD and DDD recordings of keyboard and vocal works, made in various venues in 1974, 1982, 1988, and 2004. Due to these peculiar circumstances, this disc sounds spotty and uneven, and the program seems too offhandedly assembled for an important commercial release. ...
In 1601, English composer Thomas Morley published a volume of madrigals called The Triumphs of Oriana. The music was intended to honor the aging Queen Elizabeth I, referred to as Oriana for reasons about which historians disagree (one version of the story is given in the detailed and informative notes by Thomas Elias). Each madrigal concluded with ...
The chant boom of the 1990s revived interest in sacred works, and several contemporary composers of traditionally based choral music also benefited from the phenomenon. Such devoutly religious composers as Henryk Górecki and John Tavener, among others, were accorded special attention for their settings of ecclesiastical texts, and several choral ...
The King's Singers, a English a cappella sextet with a long history of iconoclasm, exceed even their own previous exploits with this recording of Thomas Tallis' 40-part motet Spem in alium. This is a CD single, including the Tallis work and an interview with the singers in which they discuss not only the obvious questions that arise -- how did ...
Considering the longevity of the King's Singers' career (which began in the 1960s with performances of the Schola Cantorum Pro Musica Profana, or, as they were more casually known, the Cam River Boys), it's only natural that a greatest-hits album would require two discs, each crammed full of arrangements of popular songs and vocal pieces from the ...
The quintessentially English King's Singers have recorded prolifically and are approaching a catalog landmark of 100 album releases. Three box sets of five albums apiece are on the market, all with titles suggesting they represent best-of selections from among the group's repertoire. In no case is this so; all the boxes are simply repackagings of ...
The King's Singers point out in their commentary on this 2008 release that their activities over the previous few years had tended toward the classical side of the classical-popular divide. Whether intentionally or not, these virtuoso male a cappella singers returned to vernacular material with a disc unusual even by their adventurous standards. ...
In this CD, the King's Singers focus on penitential vocal polyphony of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- the "Golden Age" -- in Spain, Portugal, and Mexico. Given the subject matter, with the tone of the album fairly consistent, it's deeply expressive, but thoroughly somber and subdued. Alonso Lobo's Lamentations, with texts from the book ...
The quintessentially English a cappella group the King's Singers have recorded prolifically and are approaching a catalog landmark of 100 album releases. Three box sets of five albums apiece are on the market, all with titles suggesting that they represent best-of selections from among the group's repertoire. In no case is this so; all the boxes ...
The inventiveness and originality of these works by John Tavener, written in the early '70s within five years of his breakthrough piece, The Whale, make this a release that should be of interest not only to followers of the composer, but even to fans of new vocal and choral music who aren't particularly taken with the austere "holy minimalism" ...
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