In a period when it felt like time stopped, the Choir of King’s College Cambridge persevered. Under Daniel Hyde’s direction, their phrasing and elegant sense of pacing takes advantage of the extraordinary acoustic, creating something intimate with epic resonances. Gorgeous. Nico Muhly, composer In the Bleak Midwinter reflects a Christmas that was unlike any other in recent history. [...]
Thomas Trotter's recording of Duruflé's Complete Organ Works has won rave reviews across the board following its release this summer. Trotter, a former King's Organ Scholar, returned to the instrument he played as a teenager to record on the King's College label the organ music of one of the great French composers of the 20th [...]
The first album of the new year on the label of King’s College, Cambridge is a journey through the distinctive musical genre of ‘English Song’, performed by some of the finest former members of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge with one of this generation’s most exceptional pianists. Each of the nine alumni featured on this [...]
King's College has released the final album recording by the late Director of Music, Sir Stephen Cleobury. Recorded just a few months before his death, Sir Stephen recorded with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge for the last time alongside the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Music by the 19th-century composer Anton Bruckner was [...]
King's College has announced that it is to release a recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion, performed by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conducted by the late Sir Stephen Cleobury. Recorded during Holy Week 2019, it is Cleobury's last performance of the monumental work before his untimely death in November last year. Due for release [...]
A new 5-minute film that goes behind the scenes on Christmas Eve at King's has been released. Commissioned by King's, the film presents a little insight into the extraordinary preparations that take place before the famous Festival. The film is made even more special and poignant by the recent death of Sir Stephen Cleobury: it shows [...]
Today we're announcing the next in the popular 'Evensong Live' series, to be released a week today on CD and to download and stream. Evensong Live 2019 is a collection of nearly 90 minutes of anthems and canticles, recorded live during services of Choral Evensong in King's College Chapel. This release features an all-British line-up, with the [...]
Released today on the King's College record label is a double album of music by Herbert Howells, recorded in the glorious acoustic of King's College Chapel. While it won't be his last recording with King's, it is Stephen Cleobury's final album to be released before his retirement in September this year. Howells' An English Mass is presented by the [...]
For many, Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without the sound of carols sung from King’s College Chapel, and each year on Christmas Eve millions around the world enjoy A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols broadcast live on the radio. A special new two-part collection, available to pre-order from today, celebrates 100 years of the iconic service [...]
Former Organ Scholar Richard Gowers has recorded Messiaen's La Nativité du Seigneur for the King's College record label, with the album due for release on 21 September. Richard, who was at King's from 2014-17, is the first Organ Scholar to release a solo album on the College's own label. Written in 1935, La Nativité du Seigneur is one of [...]
