Royal Rhymes and Rounds

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Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
January 1, 2012
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CORNYSH GIBBONS DOWLAND WEE
    • PERFORMER
      The, King'S Singers
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 01, 2012
    • UPC
      635212030721
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD307
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    Works ⌄

    1. Pastime with Good Company, "The Kynges Balade" (The King's Ballad)

      Composer: Henry VIII

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    2. Ah, Robin, gentle Robin

      Composer: William Cornysh

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    3. Blow thy horn, hunter

      Composer: William Cornysh

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    4. It is to me a ryght gret joy

      Composer: Henry VIII

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    5. Hey Trolly Lolly Lo!

      Composer: Henry VIII

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    6. Long live fair Oriana

      Composer: Ellis Gibbons

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    7. The Silver Swan (Round)

      Composer: Orlando Gibbons

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    8. The silver swanne

      Composer: Orlando Gibbons

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    9. Fair Oriana, beauty's Queen

      Composer: John Hilton

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    10. Lightly she whipped o'er the dales

      Composer: John Mundy

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    11. Book of Songs, Book 2: Flow, my tears

      Composer: John Dowland

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    12. Weep, O Mine Eyes

      Composer: John Bennet

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    13. As Vesta was, from Latmos hill descending

      Composer: Thomas Weelkes

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    14. The Triumph of Victoria

      Composer: Walter Parratt

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    15. Who can dwell with greatness

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    16. To her beneath whose steadfast star

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    17. No. 1. Time

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    18. No. 2. Concord

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    19. No. 3. Time and Concord

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    20. No. 4. Country Girls

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    21. No. 5. Rustics and Fishermen

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    22. No. 6. Final Dance of Homage

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    23. A Rough Guide to the Royal Succession (It's just one damn King after another … )

      Composer: Paul Drayton

      Ensemble: The King's Singers


On a new disc to celebrate the 2012 Diamond Jubilee, the King's Singers present a selection of works from the past 500 years written in honor of the great Monarchs of Britain. Starting with works for (and in some cases by) Henry VIII, the program covers the Elizabethan 'Triumphs of Oriana' by composers such as Gibbons, Mundy and Dowland; a very Victorian selection of dedicatory works by Elgar, Parry and Parratt; choral arrangements from the opera 'Glorianna' by Benjamin Britten; and a new piece by Paul Drayton that comically pens 'A Rough Guide to the Royal Succession'. (Drayton is perhaps best known to fans of the King's Singers as the composer of their much-loved encore work Masterpiece.)