Christmas Carols with The King's Singers

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Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
September 3, 2021
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      The King'S Singers
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 03, 2021
    • UPC
      635212068328
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD683
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Balulalow

      Composer: James Burton

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    2. Gaudete Christus est natus (arr. B. Kay for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    3. O Little Town of Bethlehem (arr. P. Dunachie and R. Vaughan Williams for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    4. Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    5. The Shepherd's Carol

      Composer: Bob Chilcott

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    6. La filadora (arr. G. Richards for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    7. The Quiet Heart

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    8. Hodie Xpistus natus est (Hodie Christus natus est)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    9. Ding! Dong! Merrily on High (arr. C. Wood for choir)

      Composer: Thoinot Arbeau

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    10. O, Do Not Move

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    11. Missa O magnum mysterium: O magnum mysterium

      Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    12. Once in Royal David's City (arr. N. Ashby for choir)

      Composer: Henry John Gauntlett, Arthur Henry Mann

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    13. Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, Part II: Chorale: Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht

      Composer: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    14. Julebudet til dem, der bygge (The Christmas message) (arr. B. Holten for choir)

      Composer: Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    15. Gabriel's Message (arr. E. Pettman for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    16. Hymne à la Vierge, Op. 24

      Composer: Pierre Villette

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    17. The Little Road to Bethlehem (arr. B. Ives for choir)

      Composer: Michael Head

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    18. Dormi, dormi (arr. G. Turner for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    19. Nit de vetlla (arr. G. Richards for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    20. Wither's Rocking Hymn (arr. C. Bruerton for choir)

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    21. Jul, jul stralande jul (Christmas, Radiant Christmas)

      Composer: Gustaf Nordqvist

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    22. Lute-book lullaby (arr. G. Shaw for choir)

      Composer: William Ballet

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    23. Qui creavit caelum (Song of the Nuns of Chester)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    24. L'enfance du Christ, Op. 25, Part II, "La fuite en Egypte": L'adieu des bergers à la Sainte Famille (arr. C Bruerton)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    25. Fröhliche Weihnacht überall (arr. M. Bucher for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers


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 have represented the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over fifty years. They are renowned for their unrivalled technique, versatility and skill in performance, and for their consummate musicianship, drawing both on the group’s rich heritage and its pioneering spirit to create an extraordinary wealth of original works and unique collaborations.

REVIEWS:

If you love a capella men’s ensembles in Christmas music the King’s Singers are for you. This new album has some of the most beautiful ensemble singing I’ve heard in a long time. The arrangements are all tasteful and the singing, both in solos and ensemble, exquisite. These are not the same singers that recorded some truly ugly arrangements in some truly ugly albums several decades ago. Back them there seemed to be an attempt by their producers to make the King Singers more “withit” by recording them in arrangements that someone deemed funny or original. Since then someone brought the group back to what they do best. There are a number of familiar carols here (`Ding! Dong! Merrily on High!’, `Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day’, etc.), but also some newer carols that are really lovely (`The quiet heart’, `The little road to Bethlehem’, `O, do not move’). What a suitable disc for a wintry evening by the fire! Notes, texts, and translations.

-- American Record Guide