Artist:
The King's Singers
Genre:
Classical
Total Time:
66:54
Record Label:
Signum Classics
Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music
Release Date
September 22, 2023
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The King's Singers
Genre:
Classical
Total Time:
66:54
Record Label:
Signum Classics
Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music
Release Date
September 22, 2023
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Product Description: 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).
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Ashita no uta
(03:08)
2 . Nonsense Madrigals: I. Two Dreams and Little Bat (02:10)
3 . A Dream within a Dream (07:22)
4 . Nonsense Madrigals: II. Cuckoo in the Pear-Tree (01:35)
5 . Alive (04:42)
6 . Nonsense Madrigals: III. The Alphabet (03:29)
7 . I Was There (08:27)
8 . Nonsense Madrigals: IV. Flying Robert (03:00)
9 . Tricksters (09:43)
10 . Nonsense Madrigals: V. The Lobster Quadrille (01:48)
11 . The Musicians of Bremen (10:15)
12 . Nonsense Madrigals: VI. A Long, Sad Tale (01:38)
13 . Time Piece (09:45)
2 . Nonsense Madrigals: I. Two Dreams and Little Bat (02:10)
3 . A Dream within a Dream (07:22)
4 . Nonsense Madrigals: II. Cuckoo in the Pear-Tree (01:35)
5 . Alive (04:42)
6 . Nonsense Madrigals: III. The Alphabet (03:29)
7 . I Was There (08:27)
8 . Nonsense Madrigals: IV. Flying Robert (03:00)
9 . Tricksters (09:43)
10 . Nonsense Madrigals: V. The Lobster Quadrille (01:48)
11 . The Musicians of Bremen (10:15)
12 . Nonsense Madrigals: VI. A Long, Sad Tale (01:38)
13 . Time Piece (09:45)
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