| Label: SIGNUM RECORDS
Catalog: SIGCD120
Format: CD Disc One: Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday (SIGCD048): Lectio 1; Responsories from 1st Nocturn (In Monte Oliveti; Tristis est anima mea; Ecce vidimus eum); Lectio 2; Responsories from 2nd Nocturn (Amicus meus osculi; Judas mercator pessimus; Unus ex discipulis meis); Lectio 3; Responsories from 3rd Nocturn (Eram quasi agnus innocens; Una hora non potuistis; Seniores populi consilium); Benedictus; Christus factus est
Disc Two: The King's Singers: Six (SIGCD056) Down to the River to Pray; Blackbird; The Wishing Tree; Lullabye (Goodnight my Angel); Blue Skies; After The Goldrush
Disc Three: 1605 Treason & Dischord: William Byrd and the Gunpowder Plot (SIGCD061) John Dowland (1563-1626) George Whitehead's Almand; William Byrd (1543-1623) Kyrie from Mass for 4 Voices; A Fancie; Gloria from Mass for 4 Voices; Richad Dering (c.1580-1630) Ardens est cor meum; William Byrd: Civitas sancti tui; Peter Philips (1560/61-1628) Ave Maria gratia piena; William Byrd: Credo from Mass for 4 Voices; John Dowland: Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral; Thomas Weelkes (c.1576-1623) O Lord how joyful is the King; William Byrd: From Virgin's womb/Rejoice, rejoice; John Dowland: M. Bucton's Galliard; William Byrd: Sanctus/Benedictus from Mass for 4 Voices; Francis Pott (born 1957) Master Tresham: His Ducke; William Byrd: Agnus Dei from Mass for 4 Voices
Disc Four: Thomas Tallis: Spem In Alium (SIGCD071) Spem in Alium (8:22); Interview with the King's Singers (6:14)
Disc Five: Landscape & Time (SIGCD090) Richard Rodney Bennett (b.1936) The Seasons of his Mercies (6.39); John McCabe (b.1939) Scenes in America Deserta (14.57); Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962) Taaeveti laulud: Taaveti laul 22 (4.49), Õnnis on inimene (2.09), Taaveti laul 141 (2.26), Taaveti laul 121 (3.27); Jackson Hill (b.1941) Remembered Love (8.27); Peter Maxwell Davies (b.1934) House of Winter (11.52); Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Rakastava (7.46); Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) Esti Dal (3.17); Bob Chilcott (b.1955) Even Such is Time (2.50) 5 CDs for the price of 3!
To celebrate The King's Singers 40th anniversary year, the group are releasing five of their best-selling albums from the last 6 years in a fantastic new CD boxed-set collection.
The King's Singers Collection includes Tallis' 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.
"One can't help but admire the impeccable intonation, rhythmic precision and immaculate ensemble of this performance." [Spem in alium] - BBC Music Magazine
"The King's Singers Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maudny Thursday is simply superb." - All Music Guide Website  Price: $77.98 |
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