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The King's Singers - Wonderland (2023)

Posted By: ArlegZ
The King's Singers - Wonderland (2023)

The King's Singers - Wonderland (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 313 Mb | Total time: 67:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Signum Records | # SIGCD739 | Recorded: 2022, 2023

Wonderland is full of magic and myth. Containing exclusively works commissioned by The King’s Singers across their 55 years; the album celebrates their trademark musical storytelling; with no shortage of comedy. György Ligeti’s six Nonsense Madrigals; each setting playful children’s poetry or extracts from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; provide a musical spine to the album; commemorating 100 years since the composer’s birth in 1923.

The King’s Singers - Christmas Carols with The King’s Singers (2021)

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The King’s Singers - Christmas Carols with The King’s Singers (2021)

The King's Singers - Christmas Carols with The King's Singers (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 307 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 166 Mb | Artwork included | 01:08:20
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Signum Classics

This brand new Christmas album from The King’s Singers features 25 tracks covering everything from contemporary choral gems and folk songs through to well-loved carols. Dotted throughout the album are several of the most famous English church carols, which take The King’s Singers right back to their earliest singing days, and which also reflect the group’s heritage at King’s College, Cambridge. In Christmas Carols with The King’s Singers, the group bottle that frosty, moonlit, fireside Christmas wonder and pour it into their sound.

The King's Singers - The Triumphs of Oriana (2006)

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The King's Singers - The Triumphs of Oriana (2006)

The King's Singers - The Triumphs of Oriana (2006)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 67:13 | 278 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Signum Records | Catalog: 082

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 some variant of the couplet "Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of Diana/Long live fair Oriana," allowing the composer (there were 23 different ones for the 25 pieces) to strut his polyphonic stuff at the end of the song.

The King's Singers - When You Wish Upon a Star (2023)

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The King's Singers - When You Wish Upon a Star (2023)

The King's Singers - When You Wish Upon a Star (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 390 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 193 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:20:56
Classical Crossover, Vocal | Label: Warner Classics

The King’s Singers celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Disney with When you wish upon a star, a joyful album of twenty-five hit songs drawn from the soundtrack of the past century. They are joined by mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and a host of guest artists in a programme comprising virtuoso close-harmony arrangements freshly commissioned from an international line-up of composers, including John Rutter, Nico Muhly, Alexander L’Estrange, Toby Young, Jim Clements and Jamey Ray. The tracklist embraces songs from nine decades of Disney animation, spanning everything from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Coco (2017) to evoke memories of childhood for listeners of all ages.

King's Singers - Royal Rhymes and Rounds (2012)

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King's Singers - Royal Rhymes and Rounds (2012)

King's Singers - Royal Rhymes and Rounds (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 290 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 155 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Vocal Music | Label: Signum Records | # SIGCD307 | Time: 01:05:48

Royal Rhymes and Rounds is the King's Singers' contribution to the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne in 2012. There are ballads, part songs, madrigals, rounds, and anthems written during the reigns of (and some also in honor of) Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Victoria, and Elizabeth II. The music from the times of Henry and Elizabeth I is especially strong since it was the era of a flowering of English song, which then lay relatively dormant for several centuries. The composers include such luminaries as William Cornysh, Orlando Gibbons, John Dowland, and Thomas Weelkes, as well as Henry himself, whose rousing ballad Pastime with good companie opens the album. It's in this transparent repertoire that the group sounds its absolute best. The singers' immaculate intonation, focused tone quality, and sensitive musicianship are remarkable.

Albrecht Mayer, The King’s Singers - Let It Snow! (2013)

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Albrecht Mayer, The King’s Singers - Let It Snow! (2013)

Albrecht Mayer, The King’s Singers - Let It Snow! (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 313 Mb | Total time: 68:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 479 1907 | Recorded: 2013

One of Germany’s best-loved classical performers joins forces with a legendary close- harmony group for a winter-themed album to bring warmth to the dark months of the year: Albrecht Mayer & The King’s Singers. The pairing of probably the world’s most famous and accomplished oboist, Albrecht Mayer with the UK’s celebrated vocal ensemble is a heavenly musical partnership, and the interplay of colours, melodies and harmonies between these performers enchant and delight with Baroque, classical and seasonal favourites. The album has a Yuletide theme with tracks such as ‘Let It Snow’, ‘Jingle Bells’ and ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’.

The King's Singers - Finding Harmony (2020)

Posted By: ArlegZ
The King's Singers - Finding Harmony (2020)

The King's Singers - Finding Harmony (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 336 Mb | Total time: 69:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Signum Records | # SIGCD607 | Recorded: 2019

Singing together binds us together. From the Protestant Reformation in Europe during the 1500s to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, there have been countless moments in history when songs have united nations, cultures and causes. This is still the case in todays world. Finding Harmony is evidence that music has always been our common language. A unique collection of pieces that span the globe including music thats too often forgotten each song is the key to a powerful true story about who we are and how weve got here. Together, Finding Harmony proves how deeply we can be moved by all kinds of stories when songs connect us to them, and to each other.

The King's Singers - Madrigals & Songs from the Renaissance [8CDs] (2018)

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The King's Singers - Madrigals & Songs from the Renaissance [8CDs] (2018)

The King's Singers - Madrigals & Songs from the Renaissance [8CDs] (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.87 Gb | Total time: 07:21:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 9029570282 | Recorded: 1974-1990

In 1968, six former choral scholars from King’s College, Cambridge established the King’s Singers, later described by The Times as “the superlative vocal sextet”. The group has always comprised two countertenors, a tenor, two baritones and a bass, and over the years it has proved consistently exceptional for vocal distinction and breadth and diversity of repertoire. This celebratory collection of eight CDs focuses on Renaissance composers from Italy, England, France, Spain, Germany and the Low Countries.

The King's Singers, Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia - A Little Christmas Music (1989)

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The King's Singers, Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia - A Little Christmas Music (1989)

The King's Singers, Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia - A Little Christmas Music (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 266 Mb | Total time: 58:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # CDC 7 49909 2 | Recorded: 1989

Christmas with The King's Singers New music, old music, music from the Renaissance and Baroque, spirituals, folksongs, jazz and pop… The Beatles, David Bowie, swing, classical avantgarde, waltzes by Strauss, and musical theatre songs. Which genre of music are the King's Singers actually yet to interpret? Which style have they not yet captured within their unique global reach and within their transparent and intimate six-voiced sound world? One thing is for sure - when the King's Singers came together at the end of the 1960s in Cambridge, no one would have believed the success story that lay ahead of them. Some musical experts were scathing: a male-only vocal sextet was most likely to be found in the pop sector.

The King's Singers - Pachelbel: Vespers (2010)

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The King's Singers - Pachelbel: Vespers (2010)

The King's Singers - Pachelbel: Vespers (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:12:47 | 384 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal, Sacred | Label: Signum Records | Catalog: SIGCD198

One of the best-kept secrets about Johann Pachelbel is his sacred music, both that he wrote it – his omnipresent Canon in D and imposing output for the organ tends to obscure this point – and that it is of such excellent quality as it is. Little of it has been recorded prior to British label Signum's Pachelbel: Vespers, featuring the commanding talents of the King's Singers and period instrument ensemble Charivari Agréable under the direction of Kah-Ming Ng, and the specific works on this disc have never been recorded by anyone.