Event Details
Peter Hicks, countertenor | Edward Button, countertenor | Julian Gregory, tenor | Joseph Edwards, baritone | Nick Ashby, baritone | Piers Connor Kennedy, bass
The King’s Singers have set the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over fifty years. They are renowned for their unrivalled technique, musicianship and versatility, which stem from both the group’s rich heritage and its drive to bring an extraordinary range of new and unique works, collaborations and recordings to life.
PROGRAM
The Romantic impulse spread like wildfire across Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Lieder, chansons and part songs–imbued with musical richness–became vehicles for the deepest expressions of human feeling, desire and fantasy. This program pays deserved tribute to many of the greatest European composers of Romantic vocal music from that time: extraordinary storytellers that include Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams in England, and Hugo Alfvén in Sweden; Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn and Franz Schubert in Germany, and Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Camille Saint-Saëns in France. Tonight, we want to honor their collective imagination and brave emotional vulnerability by taking you on a magical journey that explores some of their most compelling thoughts on life, love, nature, death, and even the supernatural.