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Singers: David Hurley (countertenor), Robin Tyson (countertenor), Paul Phoenix (tenor), Philip Lawson (baritone), Christopher Gabbitas (baritone), Stephen Connolly (bass).
We are all shaped, perhaps unconsciously, by the landscape and time in which we live. This evocative and spiritual programme, which contains five King's Singers commissions, explores the links between human life and its surroundings through the differing personal languages of poets and composers.
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Signum Records Year: 2006
| 1. | The Seasons of his Mercies | Richard Rodney Bennett (b.1936) | |
| 2. | Scenes in America Deserta | John McCabe (b.1939) | |
| 3. | Taaveti laulud | Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962) | |
| 4. | Taaveti laul 22 | Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962) | |
| 5. | innis on inimene | Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962) | |
| 6. | Taaveti laul 141 | Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962) | |
| 7. | Taaveti laul 121 | Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962) | |
| 8. | Remembered Love | Jackson Hill (b.1941) | |
| 9. | House of Winter | Peter Maxwell Davies (b.1934) | |
| 10. | Rakastava | Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) | |
| 11. | Esti Dal | Zoltßn Kodßly (1882-1967) | |
| 12. | Even Such is Time | Bob Chilcott (b.1955) |
Pubished reviews
Landscape & Time: BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
JANUARY 2007
Landscape & Time
The Kings Singers are approaching their 40th birthday and, perhaps because they have so stubbornly (at times irritatingly) mixed frivolity and seriousness in their performances down the years, are too easily dismissed or taken for granted.
This new CD is entirely serious in tone, and...
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Landscape & Time: CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE
CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE
JANUARY 2007
Landscape & Time
Words and music weave together to evoke reflections of place and memory in this album, its programme elegantly constructed and beautifully performed by the King’s Singers. The best of these fine pieces, of which Bennett’s The Seasons of His Mercies and Maxwell Davies’s...
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Landscape & Time: INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
FEBRUARY 2007
Landscape & Time
A disc advertised as 'evocative and spiritual' is likely to send me running for something self-referential and earthy, but one need have no fear at all of any vacuous New Age-ism in the present case. In fact, there is plenty of earth underpinning it, from...
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Landscape & Time: THE OTTOWA CITIZEN
THE OTTOWA CITIZEN
FEBRUARY 2007
Landscape & Time
There's probably no better-known vocal sextet in the world than the King's Singers, six gentlemen from Cambridge who have been entertaining audiences everywhere for something like three decades. Although their live performances normally feature a big segment of light music, this CD consists entirely...
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Landscape & Time - The Gramophone
THE GRAMOPHONE
FEBRUARY 2007
Landscape & Time
IMPECCABLE SINGING CONJURES UP LANDSCAPES REAL AND IMAGINED
As the title suggests, the works here share a double theme. All eight evoke landscapes of varying types, from the wide-open, multicoloured desert of the south-western USA (McCabe) to the ancient vistas derived from Japan (Jackson Hill)...
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Landscape & Time: THE GRAMOPHONE
THE GRAMOPHONE
FEBRUARY 2007
Landscape & Time
IMPECCABLE SINGING CONJURES UP LANDSCAPES REAL AND IMAGINED
As the title suggests, the works here share a double theme. All eight evoke landscapes of varying types, from the wide-open, multicoloured desert of the south-western USA (McCabe) to the ancient vistas derived from Japan...
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