The King’s Singers - The Sound of The King’s Singers (2017)

With an unmistakable sound and repertoire that ranges from classical to pop, Renaissance to the Beatles, and from folksongs to pop songs through to the avant-garde, the fantastic vocal sextet the King’s Singers have enjoyed a unique global career. Formed in 1968, this exceptional group of English vocalists will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in the coming year. ‘The Sound of The King’s Singers’ combines three of the group’s most famous albums.

Whatever music finds its way to the Singers’ six stands, the product is always fresh and sung with a bright and full yet transparent vocal sound. This includes the lively madrigals from Italy, France, England, and Germany that they recorded in 1984 during their Madrigal History Tour, which, due to the collaboration with the instrumental ensemble ‘Consort of Musicke’ led by Anthony Rooley, is considered a gem of early music. This is in contrast to a further great achievement of the sextet - the King’s Singers’ 1985 interpretations of the cheeky musical and film hits of the Comedian Harmonists, which stand as a tribute to the legendary German vocal sextet from the 1930s. In further contrast, the 1989 album ‘America’ is a homage to the great US pop songs by Paul Simon, Randy Newman and Jimmy Web, with refined arrangements by David Cullen which were specially written for the King’s Singers and the English Chamber Orchestra under Carl Davis.

Tracklist:
Disc: 1
1. Amor vittorioso - The King's Singers/The Consort of Musicke
2. Lirum bililirum - The King's Singers/The Consort of Musicke
3. Il bianco e dolce cigno - Anthony Holt/The King's Singers
4. La Bella Franceschina - The King's Singers/The Consort of Musicke
5. Ultimi mei sospiri
6. Alla cazza
7. Or si rallegri il cielo
8. Fine Knacks for Ladies - The King's Singers/Anthony Rooley
9. Who Made Thee, Hob, Forsake the Plough? - Anthony Holt/Simon Carrington/The King's Singers/The Consort of Musicke
10. Of All the Birds that I do Know - The King's Singers/Anthony Rooley
11. Too Much I Once Lamented
12. Fair Phyllis I Saw Sitting All Alone
13. The Silver Swan - Jeremy Jackman/The King's Singers/The Consort of Musicke
14. Now is The Month of Maying
15. La Guerre
16. La, la, la, je ne I'ose dire
17. Bon jour et puis quelles nouvelles
18. Mignonne, allons voir si la rose - Simon Carrington/The King's Singers/Anthony Rooley
19. Il est bel et bon - The King's Singers/The Consort of Musicke
20. Margot labourez les vignes
21. Un gentil amoureux - The King's Singers/The Consort of Musicke
22. Faulte d'argent - The King's Singers/The Consort of Musicke
23. Tres morillas m'enamoran - The King's Singers/Anthony Rooley
24. La tricotea Samartin la vea - The King's Singers/The Consort of Musicke
25. Triste estaba el rey David - The King's Singers/Anthony Rooley
26. Cucu, Cucu
27. Fatal la parte
28. La Bomba
29. Tanzen und Springen - The King's Singers/The Consort of Musicke
30. Vitrum nostrum gloriosum - The King's Singers/The Consort of Musicke
31. Ach Elslein, liebes Elselein - The King's Singers/Anthony Rooley
32. Ach, weh des Leiden
33. Das Glaut zu Speyer
34. Herzliebstes Bild - The King's Singers/Anthony Rooley

Disc: 2
1. Veronika, der Lenz ist da
2. Liebling, mein Herz la t dich gru en
3. Night and Day
4. Mein kleiner gruner Kaktus
5. Creole Love Call
6. Eins, zwei, drei, vier
7. Stormy Weather
8. Das ist die Liebe der Matrosen
9. The Barber of Seville, Overture
10. Wenn der Wind weht uber das Meer
11. Hummelflug (from Das Marchen vom Zar Saltan)
12. The Donkey Serenade
13. Gitarren spielt auf
14. No, No, Nanette: Tea for two
15. Du armes girl vom Chor
16. Wochenend und Sonnenschein

Disc: 3
1. Bridge Over Troubled Water - The King's Singers/English Chamber Orchestra/Carl Davis
2. The Sound of Silence (Arr. David Cullen) - The King's Singers/English Chamber Orchestra/Carl Davis
3. America - The King's Singers/English Chamber Orchestra/Carl Davis
4. Homeward Bound - The King's Singers/English Chamber Orchestra/Carl Davis
5. If You Leave Me Now (Arr. David Cullen) - The King's Singers/English Chamber Orchestra/Carl Davis
6. Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear (Arr. David Cullen) - The King's Singers/English Chamber Orchestra/Carl Davis
7. Scissors Cut (Arr. David Cullen)
8. It's Lonely at the Top (Arr. David Cullen)
9. Vincent (Arr. David Cullen)
10. Wichita Lineman (Arr. David Cullen)