Royal Blood – The King's Singers
Today's Music
Tuesday 20 July 2021
7.30 pm, Saanen Church
Fourteen students from throughout the country enter into 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. After “Horizon” in 2012, “Black Humor” in 2015 and “Gold Standards” in 2018 (celebrating half a century on stage), they are back in Saanen with a programme true to themselves: a multi-coloured one. Literally a must for this all-British summer!
The King's Singers
Patrick Dunarchie, Contertenor
Edward Button, Contertenor
Julian Gregory, Tenor
Christopher Bruerton, Baritone
Nick Ashby, Baritone
Jonathan Howard, Bass
| Henry VIII (1491-1547) | |
| «Pastime with good companie» | |
| William Byrd (1543-1623) | |
| «Ne irascaris, Domine – Civitas sancti tui» | |
| «O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth, our Queen» | |
| Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) | |
| “Choral Dances” from the opera “Gloriana” | |
| Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623) | |
| «As Vesta was from Latmos Hill descending» | |
| Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656) | |
| «When David heard» | |
| Henry Purcell (1659-1695) | |
| «I was glad» | |
| Rodney Bennett (1936-2012) | |
| «The seasons of his mercies» | |
| Traditional | |
| «Greensleeves» (arr. Bob Chilcott) | |
| «Dance to thy daddy» (arr. Goff Richards) | |
| «The oak and the ash» (arr. Gordon Langford) | |
| «Bobby Shafto» (arr. Gordon Langford) | |
| Popular close-harmony classics | |
| 80' | |
| CHF 125/105/65/40 |
