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The six Englishmen known as the King's Singers enjoy a reputation as one of the worlds most sought after acapella 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 Kings Singers give a superb performance of Paul Draytons 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 Kings Singers recently recorded Tallis 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 ensembles remarkable rendition of this magnificent setting.
PAL region code 2.5, DVD9. US/Canada version, region 1, may be available via DJ Records
| 1. | Haec Dies | William Byrd | |
| 2. | Psalm 121 | Cyrillus Kreek | |
| 3. | O Lord make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen | William Byrd | |
| 4. | As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending | Thomas Weelkes | |
| 5. | Dessus le Marche d'Arras | Orlando di Lasso (arr. Mason) | |
| 6. | Il est bel et bon | Pierre Passereau | |
| 7. | Luci serene e chiare | Gesualdov | |
| 8. | Esti dal | Zolt n Kod ly | |
| 9. | innis on inimene | Cyrillus Kreek | |
| 10. | Agnus Dei | Max Reger | |
| 11. | Down to the River to Pray | Max Reger | |
| 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) | illy 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 |
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