The Kings Singers – Close Harmony (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

The Kings Singers – Close Harmony (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:54:53 minutes | 2,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Signum Records

THE KING’S SINGERS have set the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over fifty years. They are renowned for their unrivalled technique, musicianship and versatility, which stem from both the group’s rich heritage and its drive to bring an extraordinary range of new and unique works, collaborations and recordings to life.

The King’s Singers’ extensive discography has led to numerous awards, including two Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a place in Gramophone magazine’s inaugural Hall of Fame.Over the course of 2023, the group has released three diverse, collaborative albums that showcase the breadth of their repertoire. One marks 400 years since the deaths of two great Renaissance composers, Thomas Weelkes and William Byrd. Another celebrates their body of commissioned music, including the six Nonsense Madrigals written for the group by György Ligeti (who would have turned 100 in 2023). And the third honours 100 years of Disney, with almost thirty brand-new arrangements of songs from its iconic films.

Growing the global canon of choral music has always been one of the group’s key aims, and The King’s Singers have now commissioned more than 200 works by many of the most prominent composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. These composers include John Tavener, Joe Hisaishi, Judith Bingham, Eric Whitacre, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Krzysztof Penderecki and Toru Takemitsu. All of this new music joins their unique body of close-harmony and a cappella arrangements, including those by individual King’s Singers past and present.

Tracklist:

01. The Kings Singers – John: Crocodile Rock (04:04)
02. The Kings Singers – Mvula: Father, Father (04:59)
03. The Kings Singers – Simon: Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover (03:15)
04. The Kings Singers – Vance, Sheeran: The Hills of Aberfeldy (04:08)
05. The Kings Singers – Mercury: Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy (03:16)
06. The Kings Singers – Kern: The way you look tonight (02:27)
07. The Kings Singers – Heyward, Gershwin, Gershwin: Oh! I Can’t Sit Down (02:46)
08. The Kings Singers – Scott: How long will I love you? (02:29)
09. The Kings Singers – McCartney, Lennon: Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da (04:31)
10. The Kings Singers – Traditional: She moved through the fair (03:30)
11. The Kings Singers – Hammond: I’m a train (02:06)
12. The Kings Singers – Blake: Meet You in the Maze (05:53)
13. The Kings Singers – McAnally, Hemby, Musgraves: Rainbow (02:33)
14. The Kings Singers – Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee (01:21)
15. The Kings Singers – Swann: Slow Train (03:32)
16. The Kings Singers – McCartney, Lennon: Honey Pie (02:46)
17. The Kings Singers – Fields, Coleman: Rhythm of Life (02:17)
18. The Kings Singers – Ellington: Creole Love Call (03:32)
19. The Kings Singers – Mitchell: Sisotowbell Lane (04:46)
20. The Kings Singers – French: Une gente bergère (02:55)
21. The Kings Singers – McCartney, Lennon: When I’m 64 (03:31)
22. The Kings Singers – Traditional: She’s like the swallow (04:35)
23. The Kings Singers – Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville (03:27)
24. The Kings Singers – Anonymous: Takeda Lullaby (03:18)
25. The Kings Singers – McCartney, Lennon: Penny Lane (02:42)
26. The Kings Singers – McVie: Songbird (03:21)
27. The Kings Singers – Mercury: Seaside Rendezvous (02:39)
28. The Kings Singers – McBroom: The Rose (03:38)
29. The Kings Singers – Arlen: Somewhere Over the Rainbow (06:08)
30. The Kings Singers – Drayton: Master-piece (2024) (12:17)
31. The Kings Singers – Goodwin: What kind of things do The King’s Singers sing? (02:00)

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