Wonderland - The King S Singers - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Wonderland is full of magic and myth. Containing exclusively works commissioned by The King’s Singers across their 55 years, the album celebrates their trademark musical storytelling, with no shortage of comedy. György Ligeti’s six Nonsense Madrigals, each setting playful children’s poetry or extracts from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, provide a musical spine to the album, commemorating 100 years since the composer’s birth in 1923.

From just over 50 years ago, the fairytale The Musicians of Bremen (1972) - set to music by the Australian composer and Master of the Queen’s Music Malcolm Williamson -sits alongside Time Piece (1972) by Paul Patterson, which tells an eccentric alternative creation story. These myth-based works have recent companions such as Judith Bingham’s extended work Tricksters (2019), which unearths what could happen if miscreants from different world mythologies could come together for the first time, and Ola Gjeilo’s A Dream within a Dream which questions the very nature of perception and reality. The album also features the legendary Japanese film and game composer Joe Hisaishi’s first ever choral work, I was there (2022), focussing on the cultural memory of tragic events such as 9/11 and the 2011

Japan Earthquake. Themes of hope and positivity, centred on the natural world, emerge in Makiko Kinoshita’s Ashita no uta (Song for tomorrow) (2020) and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers’ Alive (2022).

Composers: Malcolm Williamson, Paul Patterson, Makiko Kinoshita, György Ligeti, Ola Gjeilo, Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, Joe Hisaishi, Judith Bingham.

Tracklist

1. Ashita No Uta 03:08
2. Nonsense Madrigals: I. Two Dreams and Little Bat 02:10
3. A Dream Within a Dream 07:22
4. Nonsense Madrigals: Ii. Cuckoo In the Pear-Tree 01:35
5. Alive 04:42
6. Nonsense Madrigals: Iii. the Alphabet 03:28
7. I Was There 08:27
8. Nonsense Madrigals: Iv. Flying Robert 03:00
9. Tricksters 09:43
10. Nonsense Madrigals: V. the Lobster Quadrille 01:47
11. The Musicians of Bremen 10:14
12. Nonsense Madrigals: Vi. a Long, Sad Tale 01:38
13. Time Piece 09:45

Label: Signum Classics | Origin: Holland

📌 Works By Williamson/Patterson/Kinoshita/Ligeti/Gjeilo