The King's Singers - Wonderland (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Wonderland is full of magic and myth. Containing exclusively works commissioned by The King’s Singers across their 55 years, the album celebrates their trademark musical storytelling, with no shortage of comedy. György Ligeti’s six Nonsense Madrigals, each setting playful children’s poetry or extracts from Lewis.

Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, provide a musical spine to the album, commemorating 100 years since the composer’s birth in 1923. From just over 50 years ago, the fairytale The Musicians of Bremen (1972) - set to music by the Australian composer and Master of the Queen’s Music Malcolm Williamson -sits alongside Time Piece (1972) by Paul Patterson, which tells an eccentric alternative creation story. These myth-based works have recent companions such as Judith Bingham’s extended work Tricksters (2019), which unearths what could happen if miscreants from different world mythologies could come together for the first time, and Ola Gjeilo’s A Dream within a Dream which questions the very nature of perception
and reality.

TRACKLIST

1. The King's Singers - Ashita no uta
2. The King's Singers - Nonsense Madrigals: I. Two Dreams and Little Bat
3. The King's Singers - A Dream within a Dream
4. The King's Singers - Nonsense Madrigals: II. Cuckoo in the Pear-Tree
5. The King's Singers - Alive
6. The King's Singers - Nonsense Madrigals: III. The Alphabet
7. The King's Singers - I Was There
8. The King's Singers - Nonsense Madrigals: IV. Flying Robert
9. The King's Singers - Tricksters
10. The King's Singers - Nonsense Madrigals: V. The Lobster Quadrille
11. The King's Singers - The Musicians of Bremen
12. The King's Singers - Nonsense Madrigals: VI. A Long, Sad Tale
13. The King's Singers - Time Piece



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