Christmas Carols with The King's Singers
Signum Classics

Christmas Carols with The King's Singers

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Details

Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
The King'S Singers
Format
CD
Label
Signum Classics
Released
Sep 03, 2021
Catalog #
SIGCD683
UPC
635212068328

About

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

Tracklist 25 tracks

  1. 1 Balulalow 02:28
    Track
    1
    Title
    Balulalow
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    James Burton
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  2. 2 Gaudete Christus est natus (arr. B. Kay for choir) 01:39
    Track
    2
    Title
    Gaudete Christus est natus (arr. B. Kay for choir)
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  3. 3 O Little Town of Bethlehem (arr. P. Dunachie and R. Vaughan Williams for choir) 02:36
    Track
    3
    Title
    O Little Town of Bethlehem (arr. P. Dunachie and R. Vaughan Williams for choir)
    Duration
    02:36
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  4. 4 Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day 01:48
    Track
    4
    Title
    Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
    Duration
    01:48
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  5. 5 The Shepherd's Carol 03:09
    Track
    5
    Title
    The Shepherd's Carol
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Bob Chilcott
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  6. 6 La filadora (arr. G. Richards for choir) 03:18
    Track
    6
    Title
    La filadora (arr. G. Richards for choir)
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  7. 7 The Quiet Heart 02:36
    Track
    7
    Title
    The Quiet Heart
    Duration
    02:36
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  8. 8 Hodie Xpistus natus est (Hodie Christus natus est) 01:38
    Track
    8
    Title
    Hodie Xpistus natus est (Hodie Christus natus est)
    Duration
    01:38
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  9. 9 Ding! Dong! Merrily on High (arr. C. Wood for choir) 01:43
    Track
    9
    Title
    Ding! Dong! Merrily on High (arr. C. Wood for choir)
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Thoinot Arbeau
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  10. 10 O, Do Not Move 01:55
    Track
    10
    Title
    O, Do Not Move
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    John Tavener
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  11. 11 Missa O magnum mysterium: O magnum mysterium 03:33
    Track
    11
    Title
    Missa O magnum mysterium: O magnum mysterium
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Tomás Luis de Victoria
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  12. 12 Once in Royal David's City (arr. N. Ashby for choir) 03:09
    Track
    12
    Title
    Once in Royal David's City (arr. N. Ashby for choir)
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Henry John Gauntlett, Arthur Henry Mann
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  13. 13 Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, Part II: Chorale: Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht 01:20
    Track
    13
    Title
    Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, Part II: Chorale: Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht
    Duration
    01:20
    Composer
    Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  14. 14 Julebudet til dem, der bygge (The Christmas message) (arr. B. Holten for choir) 02:15
    Track
    14
    Title
    Julebudet til dem, der bygge (The Christmas message) (arr. B. Holten for choir)
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  15. 15 Gabriel's Message (arr. E. Pettman for choir) 02:20
    Track
    15
    Title
    Gabriel's Message (arr. E. Pettman for choir)
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  16. 16 Hymne à la Vierge, Op. 24 03:49
    Track
    16
    Title
    Hymne à la Vierge, Op. 24
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Pierre Villette
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  17. 17 The Little Road to Bethlehem (arr. B. Ives for choir) 03:03
    Track
    17
    Title
    The Little Road to Bethlehem (arr. B. Ives for choir)
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Michael Head
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  18. 18 Dormi, dormi (arr. G. Turner for choir) 03:01
    Track
    18
    Title
    Dormi, dormi (arr. G. Turner for choir)
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  19. 19 Nit de vetlla (arr. G. Richards for choir) 02:50
    Track
    19
    Title
    Nit de vetlla (arr. G. Richards for choir)
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  20. 20 Wither's Rocking Hymn (arr. C. Bruerton for choir) 03:26
    Track
    20
    Title
    Wither's Rocking Hymn (arr. C. Bruerton for choir)
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  21. 21 Jul, jul stralande jul (Christmas, Radiant Christmas) 02:45
    Track
    21
    Title
    Jul, jul stralande jul (Christmas, Radiant Christmas)
    Duration
    02:45
    Composer
    Gustaf Nordqvist
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  22. 22 Lute-book lullaby (arr. G. Shaw for choir) 03:45
    Track
    22
    Title
    Lute-book lullaby (arr. G. Shaw for choir)
    Duration
    03:45
    Composer
    William Ballet
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  23. 23 Qui creavit caelum (Song of the Nuns of Chester) 03:18
    Track
    23
    Title
    Qui creavit caelum (Song of the Nuns of Chester)
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  24. 24 L'enfance du Christ, Op. 25, Part II, "La fuite en Egypte": L'adieu des bergers à la Sainte Famille (arr. C Bruerton) 03:27
    Track
    24
    Title
    L'enfance du Christ, Op. 25, Part II, "La fuite en Egypte": L'adieu des bergers à la Sainte Famille (arr. C Bruerton)
    Duration
    03:27
    Composer
    Hector Berlioz
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers
  25. 25 Fröhliche Weihnacht überall (arr. M. Bucher for choir) 03:17
    Track
    25
    Title
    Fröhliche Weihnacht überall (arr. M. Bucher for choir)
    Duration
    03:17
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    The King's Singers