Robert King: The King's Consort
Release Date: 01 March 2005
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571100296
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
In 1980, fascinated by the colours and sounds that period instruments could bring to Baroque music, a twenty-year-old music student at Cambridge University gathered together a small choir and ensemble to present a series of concerts. The programmes were acclaimed, the public attended in large numbers, and The Kingâs Consort was born. Two years later in London, Robert Kingâs ensemble became a professional orchestra and choir. As it discovered and performed new repertoire, so TKCâs reputation spread. In 1987, having given many concerts, and after making a handful of recordings for smaller companies, Robert King proposed four projects to the founder of Hyperion. Ted Perryâs reaction was immediate: âI like all four: weâll record them.â The first disc, of duets by Purcell and Blow, became the first of a series of best-sellers.
Ninety Hyperion CD releases later, containing music from across more than 250 years, The Kingâs Consort is one of the worldâs most recorded period-instrument orchestras, releasing a huge and colourful array of repertoire from the Baroque and Classical eras, selling more than a million discs and winning a vast array of international awards. TKC has given thousands of concerts in five continents of the worldâin North and South America, the Far East, a toe-dip into Asia, in almost every European country and, of course, widely across the British Islesâperforming in many of the greatest concert halls and festivals across the globe. TKC has staged operas as far apart as Paris and Tokyo, played before Kings, Queens, Presidents, Ambassadors and hundreds of thousands of music lovers, recorded for Hollywood and broadcast to millions on television and radio, always presenting worksâboth familiar and unfamiliarâwith its vital, infectious performing style.
As TKC celebrates its 25th anniversary, we hope you will enjoy this wonderfully varied selection of its music (which opens with a thrilling âtasterâ of delights to come in the autumn of 2005 with the fourth volume of Monteverdiâs sacred music).
Tracklisting
Mishka Rushdie Momen
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Takacs Quartet
Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Cinquecento
Andrey Gugnin
El Leon de Oro / Peter Phillips
Piers Lane
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