More By Artist: The King and I
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: 4 Coronation Anthems / Foundling Hospital Anthem / Utrecht te Deum The Choir Of King's College, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 27/Apr/1988 ] Penguin Guide 3 star |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Rarities (incls 'Voices for Today' & 'Bottom's Dream') Choir of King's College / John Hahessy (boy alto) / Peter Pears (tenor) / Pamela Bowden (contralto) / Sir Geraint Evans (baritone) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "Britten's underrated United Nations anthem Voices for Today makes it onto disc at last, together with vintage recordings of artists the composer chose to work with." (BBC Music) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Rachmaninoff: Vespers - All-Night Vigil The Choir of King's College, London, Joseph Fort, Caitlin Goreing, Chris O'Leary [ Delphian / CD - released 24/Feb/2023 ] Could the definitive recording of the best-loved Orthodox choral music of all come from an Anglican chapel choir? Delphian's Paul Baxter thinks so. The young King's College London voices are bright, responsive and clear, and the recording is... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / GERALD FINZI / ARNOLD BAX
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor / Finzi & Bax: Scacred Music Choir of King's College, Sir David Willcocks, Stephen Cleobury [ EMI Classics / CD Box Set - released 28/Mar/1996 ] A compelling illustration of the rich flowering of British composers in the first half of the 20th Century. |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Johannes-Passion John Mark Ainsley, Stephen Richardson, Catherine Bott, Michael Chance, Paul Agnew, Stephen Varcoe / Choir Of King's College, Stephen Cleobury [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD/DVD Box Set - released 27/Feb/2012 ] Bach produced his St John Passion in 1724, and it was his first setting of the Passion story. The premiere of the first version took place on Good Friday in Leipzig at the Nicolaikirche. Johann Kuhnau had introduced the tradition of Passion oratorios... |
ORAZIO VECCHI & OTHERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vecchi: Selva Di Varia Ricreazione / etc Consort of Musicke with Emma Kirkby., Evelyn Tubb, Andrew King, etc / Anthony Rooley (Director & lute) [ Ermitage / CD - released 10/Mar/1996 ] Rare works performed by the Consort of Musicke with soloists including Emma Kirkby, Evelyn Tubb & Andrew King. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), James King (tenor) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra /Bernard Haitink [ Philips Australian Eloquence / CD - released 16/Apr/2002 ] "This is the only Das Lied you'll ever need, and the recorded sound is of demonstration quality" - 10/10 ClassicsToday.com |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: Sacred Music Vol 2 Deborah York, Catherine Denley, James Bowman / Kings Consort, Robert King [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/1997 ] 'Utterly beguiling pieces of music, impossible to dislike and easy to be beguiled by' (Gramophone) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Fidelio (opera recorded 1962/63) Deutsche Oper Berlin / Walter Berry, James King, Christa Ludwig, Lisa Otto / Artur Rother (cond) [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 7/Aug/2011 ] For the four main roles, singers were chosen who already had international experience but were still fresh and vigorous. Christa Ludwig, James King and Walter Berry. |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantata No.147 / Chorales & Choral Preludes for Advent and Christmas / Motets Elly Ameling, Janet Baker, Ian Partridge, John Shirley-Quirk, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. King's College Choir, Cambridge. David Willcocks [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 12/Nov/2004 ] Original recordings from 1968 & 1972 |
Freddy King / Albert King
Four Classic Albums: Four Classic Albums (Let's Hide Away And Dance Away With Freddy King / Freddy King Sings / Boy Girl Boy /The Big Blues) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] In 1949, aged just 15 a young Fred King made the move so many black families had made during the 1940's and left their home in Dallas Texas and moved to Chicago in search of a better life. King had been learning the guitar for some time but now he... |
HANDEL
Your Tuneful Voice - Handel Oratorio Arias Iestyn Davies (countertenor) with Carolyn Sampson (soprano) / The King's Consort, Robert King [ Vivat / CD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] "Iestyn Davies brings a grace and calm entirely appropriate to these Handel arias...Throughout, Davies' control is remarkable." (The Independent, Feb 2014) |
Human Nature, Diana King, TLC, Mark Morrison, Brownstone, Sheila E., Sade, Jeremy Jordan, etc
All Time Greatest R & B Songs [ Startel Entertainment / 2 CD - released 8/Nov/1998 ] 38 Smoothin' Grooves |
HENRY PURCELL / JOHN BLOW
Purcell/Blow: Elegy - Countertenor duets by Purcell & Blow Iestyn Davies, James Hall (countertenors) The King's Consort, Robert King [ Vivat / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] "This is surely one of the best countertenor performances on disc…This whole disc is a trove of bittersweet delights." Shortlisted - Recital Gramophone Awards 2020 |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Das Lied von der Ende / Kindertotenlieder / Des Knaben Wunderhorn Janet Baker, James King, Hermann Prey / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Bernard Haitink [ Philips Duo / 2 CD Box Set - released 30/Sep/2007 ] "The combination of this most deeply committed of Mahler singers with Haitink, the most thoughtfully dedicated of Mahler conductors, produces radiantly beautiful and moving results, helped by refined and atmospheric recording." 3 Stars Penguin. |
THE CELTIC VIOL
The Celtic Viol Vol 2 Jordi Savall (treble viols) / Andrew Lawrence King (Irish harp and psalterium) [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "I do hope that classical aficionados not normally interested in early or Irish music will acquire this, for it might be the beginning of a marvelous discovery." (Five Stars AudAud.com) |
Kelly Smith & Billy May, Nat King Cole & George Shearing,, Art Pepper Quintet, Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle, Lee Konitz, Miles Davis, etc
Jerome Kern Songbook - The Song Is You [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895-1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943. |
King Crimson
Three of a Perfect Pair [ Discipline Global Mobile / CD - released 13/Dec/2004 ] Orignally released in 1983, 'Three of a Perfect Pair' was King Crimson's third and final studio album from the '80s. A marvelous listening encounter - digitally re-mastered for superior sound. |
King Krule
Space Heavy [ XL Recordings / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Written from 2020 to 2022, between London and Liverpool, Space Heavy took shape over the course of commutes between the two cities where Archy Marshall was splitting his time. Befitting an album quite literally written on the commute between the two... |
King Stingray
For The Dreams [ Cooking Vinyl / CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] King Stingray return with their highly anticipated sophomore album, 'For The Dreams'. As with their debut, this record is a joyous celebration of life and the planet on which we live that oozes optimism from its every note. |
