Today King's releases a live recording of the first performance of Francis Grier's lit by holy fire – a setting of vespers first sung in King's College Chapel as part of the regular choral services in the Chapel. A vespers service that is, in the composer’s words, ‘less traditional than most’, lit by holy fire is set [...]
A recording of the world premiere performance of a piece written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the King's Singers has been made available to pre-order. To stand in this house, composed specially by New York-based composer Nico Muhly, will be released on 1 May 2018, the official 50th birthday of the renowned vocal sextet. The work [...]
King's College Choir has released a new recording of Byrd motets, presented in the order in which they appear in the pre-Reformation church year. One of the most celebrated English composers of the Renaissance, William Byrd wrote Latin sacred music throughout his professional career, despite the fact that such pieces were banned from being used in [...]
The King's Men recording in Chesterton The Choral Scholars of King's College Choir, under their a cappella group name The King's Men, have today released a new album of close harmony music. Love from King's is an album of beautiful new arrangements of romantic pop & jazz favourites, featuring classic tracks by Adele, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Simon [...]
Recording 'Second Farewell to Cambridge' in King's College Chapel At the Backs of King's College there is a memorial stone in white marble commemorating an alumnus of the College, renowned Chinese poet Xu Zhimo. Moving to the UK in 1921, Zhimo spent a year studying at King's, where he fell in love not only [...]
On Friday 3 November we release the latest in the Choir's own-label recordings: an album featuring Vaughan Williams' Dona nobis pacem and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. The Choir joins forces with the Britten Sinfonia, Ailish Tynan and Roderick Williams for this album of two much-loved choral works. Both are recorded in orchestrations for smaller forces to match the size of [...]
A new album featuring cellist and former King's chorister Guy Johnston is released today on the King's College Label. Tecchler's Cello: From Cambridge to Rome includes performances by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Tom Poster, Magnus Johnston and the Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia under the direction of Carlo Rizzari. The album features [...]
The new recording on the King's College Chapel organ has debuted at #1 in the UK Specialist Classical charts in the week of its release. The album, released earlier in June on the King's College record label, features the College's Director of Music, Stephen Cleobury. Recorded just months after the successful competetion of the 2016 organ [...]
©Musacchio A new recording featuring a distinguished alumnus will be released this year by King's College: Tecchler's Cello: From Cambridge to Rome features former chorister and renowned cellist Guy Johnston. The new album, due for release in September, is available for pre-order from today. The album includes Ola Gjeilo's Serenity (O Magnum Mysterium), performed by Guy and King's College [...]
King's is to release its first recording of 2017 – a live recording of Bach's magnificent St John Passion. Featuring the Choir of King's College Cambridge with conductor Stephen Cleobury and the Academy of Ancient Music, this new live release is a thrilling performance of Bach's dramatic work. Performed in concert as part of the Easter at [...]
