Choir of King's College C - The Choir Of King's College, Cambridge: Evensong Live 2016 on CD

Description

Evensong Live 2016 is a selection of the best weekly webcasts recorded during the preceding academic year (2014-15). Real services at King s College Chapel are recorded using a state-of-the-art recording system concealed in the roof, vestry and organ loft. Microphones are suspended discreetly above the choir stalls, recording each of the choir s services and performances. This album showcases the best performances during the year, as selected by the choir s Director of Music, Stephen Cleobury, providing a cross-section of the daily music making at King s, and capturing the atmosphere and acoustic of the Chapel. It serves as a snapshot of the choir at a specific moment in time and presents evensong as one of the jewels of our national heritage: not a relic, but a living and breathing part of our culture. The choir at King s performs evensong six times a week, in addition to Sunday eucharist or matins, furnishing the liturgy with music on a daily basis. This tradition has fostered many of the greatest choirs, singers and organists in the world. This selection of music This release joins the label s other, critically-acclaimed, recordings including: 'English Hymn Anthems', a Gramophone Editor s Choice; 'Fauré: Requiem', Classic FM Album of the Year 2014; and '1615: Gabrieli in Venice', the first classical album to utilise Dolby s groundbreaking Atmos technology. Review PERFORMANCE: **** --Terry Blain - BBC Music Magazine, November 2016