Royal Rhymes & Rounds : King's Singers

The King's Singers: Royal Rhymes & Rounds

anon.: Hey, trolly lolly lo!
Bennet: Weep, O Mine Eyes
Britten: Choral Dances from Gloriana, Op. 53
Cornyshe: Ah, Robin, gentle Robin
Cornyshe: Blow thi Horne
Dowland: Flow my teares (Lacrima)
P. Drayton: A Rough Guide to the Royal Succession (It’s just one damn King after another…)
Elgar: To her beneath whose steadfast star
E. Gibbons: Long live fair Oriana
O.Gibbons: The Silver Swan - Round
O.Gibbons: The Silver Swan
Henry VIII: Pastyme with good companye
Henry VIII: It is to me a ryght gret joy
Hilton: Fair Oriana, beauty's Queen
J.Mundy: Lightly she whipped o'er the dales
Parratt: The Triumph of Victoria
Parry: Who can dwell with greatness!
Weelkes: As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending

The King's Singers

Recorded: 07/2011

On a new disc to celebrate the 2012 Diamond Jubilee, The King's Singers present a selection of works from the past 500 years written in honour of the great Monarchs of Britain.

Starting with works for (and in some cases by) Henry VIII, the programme covers the Elizabethan 'Triumphs of Oriana' by composers such as Gibbons, Mundy and Dowland; a very Victorian selection of dedicatory works by Elgar, Parry and Parrat; choral arrangements from the opera 'Glorianna' by Benjamin Britten; and a new piece by Paul Drayton that comically pens 'A Rough Guide to the Royal Succession'. (Drayton is perhaps best known to fans of The King's Singers as the composer of their much-loved encore work Masterpiece.)