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Background: The Best of King's is a 2CD set: the first disc is an album of carols, the repertoire in which the choir is rightly most famous, the second an extensive selection from the most popular general repertoire. The pieces on CD2 span several centuries from Allegri to Rutter.

The Choir of King's College is perhaps the most famous institution of its kind anywhere in the world. The daily singing of services by the 16 choristers and 14 choral scholars scholars started in the 15th century following the foundation of the chapel by Henry VI.

The choir first recorded for EMI in 1927 (though this was an experiment that never saw the light of day). EMI recordings of the choir's core repertoire of carols and English church music first appeared in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when the director of music was Boris Ord. The company's recording programme continued and broadened under his successors Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger and now Stephen Cleobury. In recent years, an exclusive contract with EMI Classics has taken the choir into such fields as contemporary and Russian Orthodox music.

CATALOGUE NR: 5863482
RECORD LABEL: EMI
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 14.50 including VAT, or £ 12.34 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 22-Nov-2004

TITLE: Best of King's
TRACKS: O come O come Emmanuel! Once in Royal David's City. Angels from the realms of glory. Adam lay ybounden. O little town of Bethlehem. In dulci jubilo. The First Nowell. I saw three ships. God rest you merry gentlemen. Quem pastores laudavere. Personent hodie. The Holly and the Ivy. A Spotless Rose. Away in a manger. While shepherds watched. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day. Up! good Christian folk and listen. In the bleak midwinter. Ding dong! merrily on high. Silent Night. The Three Kings. The Lamb (Tavener). Sussex Carol. O come all ye faithful. Hark! the herald angels sing. Excerpts from : Miserere - abridged (Allegri). Vespers (Monteverdi). Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach). Ave verum corpus (Mozart). Magnificat (Bach). Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Parry). Chichester Psalms (Bernstein). I was glad (Parry). Jubilate Deo (Britten). Thou knowest Lord (Purcell). Ave verum corpus (Byrd). Vespers (Rachmaninov). Requiem (Durufle). Requiem (Rutter). Requiem (Faure). Beati quorum via (Stanford). Totus tuus - abridged (Gorecki). Salvator mundi (Tallis). Zadok the Priest (Handel). Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan Williams). Messiah (Handel). Gloria (Vivaldi).
ARTISTS: Choir of Kings College Cambridge      

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