Love Songs / The King's Singers

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Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
February 8, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      The King'S Singers
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 08, 2019
    • UPC
      635212056523
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD565
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. A Star is Born: It's a New World

      Composer: Harold Arlen

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    2. Toy Story 2: When She Loved Me (arr. P. Lawson)

      Composer: Randy Newman

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    3. All of Me (arr. A. L'Estrange for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: John Legend

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    4. Cotton Club Parade: I've Got the World on a String (arr. A. L'Estrange for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Harold Arlen

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    5. Tuoll on mun kultani (arr. B. Chilcott for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    6. Don't Worry About Me (arr. C. Bruerton for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Frances

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    7. April Come She Will

      Composer: Paul Simon

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    8. Pal Joey: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (arr. A. L'Estrange for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Richard Rodgers

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    9. Arrirang (arr. B. Chilcott for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    10. Quand tu dors près de moi (after J. Brahms) (arr. G. Langford for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Georges Auric

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    11. Beyond The Sea (La Mer) (arr. A. L'Estrange for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Charles Trenet

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    12. The Goldwyn Follies: Love Is Here to Stay (arr. R.R. Bennett for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: George Gershwin

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    13. I Love my Love

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    14. My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose (arr. S. Carrington for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    15. Three Sisters: I Won't Dance (arr. A. L'Estrange for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Jerome Kern

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    16. Helplessly Hoping

      Composer: Stephen Stills

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    17. At Last (arr. A. L'Estrange for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Harry Warren

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    18. Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy (arr. A. Jackman for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Paul Simon

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    19. One Minute to Zero: When I Fall In Love (arr. A. L'Estrange for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Victor Young

      Ensemble: The King's Singers


It’s no surprise that The King’s Singers have recorded a huge number of love songs on all kinds of albums over the last fifty years. Some of these were albums devoted to love songs like Chanson d’amour and Romance du soir. Other albums couldn’t help but include music about love, although their theme was actually different. This album, Love Songs, is a chance to revisit some of the ensemble’s favorite tracks that they’ve recorded over the last two decades, compiled from across their back catalogue with Signum Records. The tracks they’ve chosen have come from five different albums, released between 2008 and 2017. Rather than trying to take in any of the enormous number of classical love songs from the back catalogue, the group wanted to focus on some of the best folk songs, jazz standards, and pop songs that have featured in King’s Singers concerts throughout their history. This selection has been curated especially to celebrate the group’s favorite recent albums, and to show how rich and varied the tapestry of love songs we have today is.

REVIEWS:

[A] spirited, handsomely sung program of entries representing a number of genres. I enjoy the bass fiddle licks sung with such jazzy appeal in ‘I’ve Got the World On a String’ (Harold Arlen) and Jerome Kern’s ‘I Won’t Dance’. The softrock arpeggios in Paul Simon’s ‘April Come She Will’ and ‘Helplessly Hoping’ (Stephen Stills) are great fun, and I will happily make time for Simon Carrington’s radiant arrangement of ‘My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose’. For a union of the British choral tradition and the Doo-Wop style, look no further than this rendition of ‘At Last’.

A cappella groups singing in this style have proliferated like gangbusters on high school and college campuses. If a young musician you know is singing in one, why not get ahold of this and show them what the gold standard sounds like.

-- American Record Guide