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18 July — 6 September 2025

Cycle «Change III» 2023 — 2025

Today's Music

Tuesday, 24 July 2018
7.30 pm, Saanen Church  

They are a veritable institution, an icon in England, where the perfection of choral music, whether sacred or profane, has been cultivated for centuries. Fourteen students from throughout the country are accepted at the prestigious King’s College of Cambridge each year. At the end of the 1960’s six choral scholars from these select students founded the King’s Singers. Six students, six friends, permanently immersed in the individual and group practice of song, decided one morning to place their talents in the service of a repertoire that was more representative of their pastimes, their ages and their time, in short, a repertoire that might be characterized as a bit more “fun”. The group has evolved since then, but the recipe as well as their success has remained the same; more than 150 recordings testify to their immense repertoire. Following “Horizon” in 2012 and “Black Humor” in 2015, they are back in 2018 with their “Gold Standards” to celebrate worthily a half century on stage.

THE KING'S SINGERS
PATRICK DUNACHIE, TIMOTHY WAYNE-WRIGHT, Countertenors
JULIAN GREGORY, Tenor
CHRISTOPHER BRUERTON, CHRISTOPHER GABBITAS, Baritones
JONATHAN HOWARD, Bass

FAMILY  
Henry Ley (1887-1962) 
A Prayer of King Henry VI 
Bob Chilcott (1955) 
We Are 
  
JOYS OF THE RENAISSANCE  
Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517) 
Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen 
Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) 
Frisch auf! Lasst uns ein gut‘s Glas mit Wein 
  
THE MAESTRO  
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012) 
The Seasons of his Mercies 
  
THE MAGIC OF ROMANTICISM  
Max Reger (1873-1916) 
Morgengesang 
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) 
Abendständchen 
  
THE ORIGINAL  
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) 
Handmade Proverbs 
  
THE BEAUTY OF FOLK SONGS  
Trad. / arr. Gordon Langford (1930-2017) 
Es dunkelt schon in der Heide 
Trad. / arr. Daryl Runswick (1946) 
Auf einem Baum ein Kuckuck sass 
  
THE ENTERTAINER  
Joanna & Alexander L’Estrange (1974) 
Quintessentially 
  
– Interval – 
  
FIREWORKS  
Steve Martland (1954-2013) 
Poor Roger 
  
THE DREAMER  
Nico Muhly (1981) 
To Stand in This House 
  
ICING ON THE CAKE  
Popular close-harmony classics and new surprises from the lighter repertoire of the King's Singers  
  
CHF 125 / 105 / 65 / 40