The King’s Singers: Bologna Festival, Legacies

About the Event

The program presented by The King’s Singers, the renowned a cappella vocal ensemble founded in Cambridge in 1968, spans five centuries of music. It is a sonic polyptych that brings together Renaissance polyphonies by Byrd and Weelkes with songs by Lennon & McCartney, madrigals by Jacques Arcadelt with traditional Georgian chants, jazz with folk, creating new harmonies in a comprehensive vision.


Legacies

Finding Harmony
Harry Dixon Loes, arr. Stacey V. Gibbs This little light of mine
Urmas Sisask Heliseb väljadel
Traditional Georgian Tsintskaro
Traditional Georgian Gaxsovs turpav

Tom and Will
Thomas Weelkes Hark, all ye lovely saints above
Thomas Morley Nolo mortem peccatoris
William Byrd Though Amaryllis dance in green
Thomas Tallis If ye love me
William Byrd Laudibus in sanctis

Northern Lights
Anders Edenroth Words
Evert Taube, arr. Anders Edenroth Så skimrande var aldrig havet
Traditional, arr. Hugo Alfvén Uti vår hage
Waldemar Åhlén Sommarpsalm
Anders Edenroth Pass me the jazz

Songbirds
Paul McCartney & John Lennon, Blackbird
arr. Daryl Runswick
Jacques Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno
Pierre Passereau Il est bel et bon
Clément Jannequin Le chant des oiseaux

Close Harmony
A selection of pop, jazz and folk songs, taken from The King’s Singers’ famous library of much‐loved close‐harmony arrangements.