Singers: David Hurley (countertenor), Robin Tyson (countertenor), Paul Phoenix (tenor), Philip Lawson (baritone), Christopher Gabbitas (baritone), Stephen Connolly (bass).

We are all shaped, perhaps unconsciously, by the landscape and time in which we live. This evocative and spiritual programme, which contains five King's Singers commissions, explores the links between human life and its surroundings through the differing personal languages of poets and composers.

Label:
Signum Records Year: 2006

Pubished reviews

Cadogan Hall, John McCabe 70th birthday concert

Review extracts from Bob Briggs, Music Web  No matter how long you've been listening to a composer's music - and I've been an avid John McCabe fan since I first heard the Hall  under Maurice Handford give the Hartmann Variations in Bradford in 1967/1968 - it still comes as...
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Landscape & Time: BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE  JANUARY 2007   Landscape & Time   The King's Singers are approaching their 40th birthday and, perhaps because they have so stubbornly (at times irritatingly) mixed frivolity and seriousness in their performances down the years, are too easily dismissed or taken for granted. This new CD is entirely  serious' in tone, and...
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Landscape & Time: CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE

CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE   JANUARY 2007   Landscape & Time   Words and music weave together to evoke reflections of place and memory in this album, its programme elegantly constructed and beautifully performed by the King’s Singers. The best of these fine pieces, of which Bennett’s The Seasons of His Mercies and Maxwell Davies’s...
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Landscape & Time: INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW  FEBRUARY 2007   Landscape & Time   A disc advertised as 'evocative and spiritual' is likely to send me running for something self-referential and earthy, but one need have no fear at all of any vacuous New Age-ism in the present case. In fact, there is plenty of earth underpinning it, from...
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Landscape & Time: THE OTTOWA CITIZEN

THE OTTOWA CITIZEN  FEBRUARY 2007  Landscape & Time   There's probably no better-known vocal sextet in the world than the King's Singers, six gentlemen from Cambridge who have been entertaining audiences everywhere for something like three decades. Although their live performances normally feature a big segment of light music, this CD consists entirely...
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Landscape & Time - The Gramophone

THE GRAMOPHONE  FEBRUARY 2007   Landscape & Time  IMPECCABLE SINGING CONJURES UP LANDSCAPES REAL AND IMAGINED   As the title suggests, the works here share a double theme. All eight evoke landscapes of varying types, from the wide-open, multicoloured desert of the south-western USA (McCabe) to the ancient vistas derived from Japan (Jackson Hill)...
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Landscape & Time: THE GRAMOPHONE

THE GRAMOPHONE   FEBRUARY 2007   Landscape & Time   IMPECCABLE SINGING CONJURES UP LANDSCAPES REAL AND IMAGINED   As the title suggests, the works here share a double theme. All eight evoke landscapes of varying types, from the wide-open, multicoloured desert of the south-western USA (McCabe) to the ancient vistas derived from Japan...
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