Performer: The King’s Singers
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Signum
Release: 2021
Size: 367 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Lennon & McCartney: Honey Pie
02. Christine McVie: Songbird
03. Simon: Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover
04. Jacob Collier: In The Real Early Morning
05. trad.: Mo li hua
06. Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble Bee
This is the third volume in the EP series “The Library” – a series that explores both the history, and the new horizons, of The King’s Singers close-harmony repertoire. Close-harmony is the part of their work for which they are best known, and their library of thousands of arrangements is one they’re determined to explore, maintain and develop. The track-listing is designed to celebrate some old favorites from the library alongside brand new arrangements and adaptations, created especially for these recordings, which may perhaps become ‘old favorites’ of the future.
The King’s Singers were founded on 1 May 1968 by six choral scholars who had recently graduated from King’s College Cambridge. Their vocal line-up was (by chance) two countertenors, a tenor, two baritones and a bass, and the group has never wavered from this formation since.