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Songs:
1. Haec Dies - William Byrd
2. O Lord make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen -William Byrd
3. As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending -Thomas Weelkes
4. Dessus le Marche d'Arras - Orlando di Lasso (arr. Mason)
5. Il est bel et bon - Pierre Passereau
6. Luci serene e chiare - Gesualdo
7. Esti dal - Zoltán Kodály
8. Õnnis on inimene - Cyrillus Kreek
9. Agnus Dei - Max Reger
10. Psalm 121 - Cyrillus Kreek
11. Down to the River to Pray - Traditional (arr. Lawson)
12. Honey Pie - The Beatles (arr. Hart)
13. Blackbird -The Beatles (arr. Runswick)
14. Creole Love Call - Duke Ellington (arr. Kuhn)
15. Seaside Rendezvous - Freddie Mercury (arr. Hart)
16. Lullabye (Goodnight my Angel) - Billy Joel (arr. Lawson)
17. Overture to the Barber of Seville - Gioacchino Rossini (arr Runswick)
18. Danny Boy - Fred Weatherley
19. Spem in Alium - Thomas Tallis
20. Encore - Masterpiece - Paul Drayton
TOTAL RUNNING TIME 92 min |
Notes:
The six Englishmen known as the King’s Singers enjoy a reputation as one of the world’s most sought after a capella vocal ensemble. This pre-eminent group has never diminished in virtuosity throughout its thirty-plus year history of sharing one of the widest repertoires imaginable with enthusiastic audiences around the globe. This programme features the King’s Singers performing some of their favourite works, a mixture of songs old and new.
As a special encore, the King’s Singers give a superb performance of Paul Drayton’s Masterpiece, a musical satire on four hundred years of Western music in nine minutes, with sections ranging from a fugue on the name “Johann Sebastian Bach” to an impressionistic rendering of “Debussy” in fanatically over-pronounces French.
2005 is the 500th Anniversary of the birth of Thomas Tallis, the most influential English composer of his generation, as well as one of the most popular renaissance composers of today. The King’s Singers recently recorded Tallis’s famous forty-part motet, Spem in alium. How does a six-member ensemble perform this piece? All is revealed in sequences interspersed between the concert performances that show the singers at work solving this problem. The programme culminates with the ensemble’s remarkable rendition of this magnificent setting.
This is a Region 1 DVD (US and Canada only). For more information about region codes, click here. For other regions, please go the official King's Singer's web site.
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