A Year At Kings / Stephen Cleobury

The Choir of King's College Cambridge is arguably the world's most famous choral group. This new album is a tour of the ecclesiastical year from Advent through to Ascension. A Year at King's includes such favorites as Allegri's 'Miserere' and Barber's 'Agnus Dei', an arrangement of his famous 'Adagio for Strings', as well as the first recording of Tavener's Away in a Manger, written for King's College Choir's 2004 'Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols'. The rest of the program comprises works composed between the 15th and 20th centuries by Palestrina, Part and Poulenc, Lassus, Holst, Guerrero, Eccard, Peter Philips and Stanford. The disc is rounded off with a spectacular performance of Tallis' 'Spem in alium'. On this, as on many previous King's College Choir recordings, the conductor is Stephen Cleobury, organist and Director of Music at King's since 1982.

BBC Music Magazine
Allegri's Miserere brings an outstandingly involving interpretation to light, the stratospheric top Cs for solo treble not unduly spotlighted, and marvellously natural unison phrasing in the plainchant sections...[a] firmly recommendable introduction to how the King's choir sounds at present.

Gramophone Magazine
Highly proficient, taking easily in their stride the most elaborate polyphony and answering all the demands...The great motet by Tallis is heard in a new way, moving ahead with resolution and assurance.

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Recording information: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England.

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Arvo Pärt (1935 - ) : Magnificat Antiphons :: O Weisheit

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 1 min. 58 sec.
Period Time: Contemporary
Form: Choral
Written: 1988

Arvo Pärt (1935 - ) : Magnificat Antiphons :: O Immanuel

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 4 min. 7 sec.
Period Time: Contemporary
Form: Choral
Written: 1988

Guerrero, Francisco (Renaissance) : Canite tuba in Sion, motet

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 2 min. 37 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance
Form: Choral

Palestrina, Giovanni : Hodie Christus natus est

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 2 min. 28 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance
Form: Choral

Traditional, Christmas : Away in a Manger

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 3 min. 44 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Christmas
Written: circa 1885

Poulenc, Francis : Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 2 min. 46 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Choral
Written: 1951

Lassus, Orlando de : Videntes stellam magi

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 3 min. 19 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Eccard, Johannes : When to the temple Mary went, motet for choir

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 4 min. 1 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance
Form: Choral

Holst, Gustav : Nunc Dimittis, for chorus, H. 127

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 3 min. 21 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1915

Allegri, Gregorio : Miserere

Performers: Edmund Rex; Simon Chambers
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 13 min. 47 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Form: Choral
Written: 16th Century

Barber, Samuel : Agnus Dei

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 7 min. 22 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1967

Philips, Peter : Surgens Jesus

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 2 min. 2 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 16th Century

Wood, Charles : 'Tis the Day of Resurrection

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 5 min. 51 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic

Tomás Luis de Victoria (circa 1548 - 1611) : Ascendens Christus in altum, motet for 5 voices

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 5 min. 20 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance
Form: Choral
Written: 1572

Stanford, Charles Villiers : Motets (3), Op. 38

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Notes: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England (07/06/2009-07/09/2009)
Running Time: 2 min. 4 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1890

Tallis, Thomas : Spem in alium

Performer: Peter Stevens (Organ)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Running Time: 7 min. 50 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance
Written: circa 1567

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Period Time: Modern

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