Music / evergreen

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Reviews (3)


MusicWeb international

2018 March

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Simon Thompson (musikanmelder)

2018 March

"2018 sees the 50th anniversary of the King's Singers, and they are celebrating in style with this luxurious collection of numbers that show them at their best ... Some of the tracks are newly composed or arranged for this anniversary release, and others are a revisiting of things from before. They were certainly all recorded specially for this disc ... its line-up has been renewed dozens of times. They have given countless hours of pleasure to music lovers all over the world in the last five decades, and this disc is a distillation, by their current incarnation, of what makes them special. Here's to the next fifty years".


BBC music magazine

2018 February

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Terry Blain

2018 February

"The famed King's Singers attention to pin-point pitching, slick ensemble, and deft balances between the voices are present in abundance. The two Beatles arrangements are particularly successful ... The current King's Singers have lost none of their predecessors' ability to sing at ridiculous velocities, without skittling their consonants all over the bowling alley ... For King's Singers fans, this set is an automatic purchase. For others, its extraordinary versatility and consistent enjoyability are warmly recommended".


The gramophone

2017 December

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Alexandra Coghlan

2017 December

"Editor's choice: What hits you first and leaves you last when listening to this project is the astonishing, exhilarating musicianship of these singers. You may or may not enjoy the group's signature sound, with its diffuse bass warmth and blowsy top line ... but there's no arguing with tuning that electrifies even the simplest of chords, or with a vocal blend that turns cluster chords into gauzy clouds of colour ... Looking back over 50 years of performances and recordings by The King's Singers it's hard to think of a group whose music-making has aged so well. The joy, the generosity and the eclecticism of their earliest recordings are all still the defining qualities in their latest ... Here's to 50 more years".