The King's Singers - Wonderland (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 313 Mb | Total time: 67:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Signum Records | # SIGCD739 | Recorded: 2022, 2023
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 313 Mb | Total time: 67:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Signum Records | # SIGCD739 | Recorded: 2022, 2023
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. The album also features the legendary Japanese film and game composer Joe Hisaishi’s first ever choral work; I was there (2022); focussing on the cultural memory of tragic events such as 9/11 and the 2011 Japan Earthquake. Themes of hope and positivity; centred on the natural world; emerge in Makiko Kinoshita’s Ashita no uta (Song for tomorrow) (2020) and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers’ Alive (2022).
Performer:
The King's Singers:
Patrick Dunachie, countertenor
Edward Button, countertenor
Julian Gregory, tenor
Christopher Bruerton, baritone
Nick Ashby, baritone
Jonathan Howard, bass
Tracklist:
Makiko Kinoshita
01. Ashita no uta (Song for Tomorrow)
György Ligeti
02. Nonsense Madrigals - Two Dreams and Little Bat
Ola Gjeilo
03. A Dream within a Dream
György Ligeti
04. Nonsense Madrigals - Cuckoo in the Pear-Tree
Francesca Amewudah-Rivers
05. Alive
György Ligeti
06. Nonsense Madrigals - The Alphabet
Joe Hisaishi
07. I Was There
György Ligeti
08. Nonsense Madrigals - Flying Robert
Judith Bingham
09. Tricksters
György Ligeti
10. Nonsense Madrigals - The Lobster Quadrille
Malcolm Williamson
11. The Musicians of Bremen
György Ligeti
12. Nonsense Madrigals - A Long, Sad Tale
Paul Patterson
13. Time Piece
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