Our ambition for the past six or seven years has been to produce a recording for sale. We often find that some repertoire works well in performance either because our audience responds well or because it strikes a chord with us. We then select some of those pieces, then do a lot more polishing, and after we are ready Paul will call Russell Dawkins to arrange for a recording session. Because we are all perfectionists at heart, we want to wait until our collection of tracks is of the very finest artistic quality — and such a project seems to take time! Until that happy day on which we will have a CD launch, for now here is a wee selection of what we have enjoyed singing.
Selections from the recording studio
Posted on 06. Nov, 2010 by admin.
You are the new dayKings Singers arrangement of a favorite by John David
Full Fathom FiveFrom Jaakko Mäntyjärvi's first "Shakespeare Songs " cycle
Hymnus LuminisRobert Overman's tender setting of a poem by David Gravender
What shall we do with the drunken sailorAn arrangement by John Willcocks of this perennial favorite.
All the things you areA capella just ain't a capella without a Ward Swingle jingle
The DredgerNicholas Fairbank's take on a 19th-century public-works project in Victoria, Canada
Quick! we have but a secondCharles Villiers Stanford packs a lot of fun into these 31 bars!
