Wonderful to see Charles Daniels, Gerry Finley and John Butt all starting out amazing careers at King’s

This Canadian programme is probably the best documentary about the Choir of King’s College and the Chapel I think I have seen. Very informative.

Utterly splendid. Thank you for posting.

Beautiful 💓

Thank you for putting this on KZread. One of the jewels in England's glorious Church choral tradition crown. I wonder when 'they' will come for it; to 'de-colonise' or 'improve' it through the addition of the female voice? And the Chapel! The world's most glorious stone 'hanger' of a building.

@dwightmckay2036

5 ай бұрын

Don't need 'de-colonizatuon 'or changes to the present choral tradition of boy choristers and gentlemen choral scholars or lay clerks! Leave this beautiful and ancient choral tradition alone and pursue other meaningful purposes in your lives!

@worldnotworld

17 күн бұрын

King's is now the last of the Oxbridge choirs not to have been vandalized. Keep praying.

@el7284

11 күн бұрын

​@@worldnotworldI saw just recently that st Johns is accepting girl choristers into its ranks now. A shame, little girls don't really have the range of colour that little boys have.

Beautiful! I wonder, though, if there might be found a BBC radio 3 recording of the programme Surrexit Pastor Bonus broadcast on 19th April 1993 at 6pm. I had this on cassette, but cassettes have gone the way of all flesh and it was s truly remarkable programme that is very well worth sharing!

@ArchiveofRecordedChurchMusic

3 жыл бұрын

If you mean the programme broadcast in 1992 (not 1993), the choral ensemble involved falls beyond the scope of this archive.

@Warwickensis

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArchiveofRecordedChurchMusic Ah well! Can't blame a guy for trying. Thanks very much!

@ArchiveofRecordedChurchMusic

3 жыл бұрын

No blame can ever be attached to a polite request!

The English are losing their own sound! God bless Daniel Hyde for bringing back that glorious treble tone

@worldnotworld

3 жыл бұрын

I hope they're singing again _pronto._ I heard them numerous times in February/March, and it was clear Hyde had just begun figuring out what to do. The result was very Ledger-like (and not imitative of St. John's at all, as some had feared). He'd obviously been learning attentively from the choir itself. The trebles are an exceptionally strong and flexible crop right now, with a few outstanding soloists in the last four years, which helps. Speculation: there is a difficult underlying problem with all the British all-male choirs, in that the boys are largely afraid of sounding individually too "beautiful," with the result that certain ringing quality that even a "vertical" choir like King's always relied on is harder to put together. It's a cultural shift.

@el7284

3 жыл бұрын

@@worldnotworld astute observations. I've taken to comparing old recordings of the UK's biggest choirs, and the shift isn't pretty. St John's is the only one which has kept - and refined - their sound. Nethsingah isn't afraid to take on a softer tone and the resulting effect is dazzling. Westminster abbey has taken on a very muscular tone, ostensibly from Mr O'Donnell's stint at the Cathedral, and King's just sounded frail. Daniel seems to allow the boys some degree of expression and interpretation in their singing and that has allowed the vocal colours to start propagating again

@el7284

3 жыл бұрын

@@worldnotworld also, who had feared about the st John's imitation? I hadn't heard anything about that?

@erichgroat838

Жыл бұрын

@@el7284 I don't know how I missed your comments from so long ago! I think even St. John's had undergone some of the shift I'd mentioned - though Nethsingha rode with it to develop a fantastic sound. I cannot believe I must henceforth refer to St. J's in the past tense. Not being in the UK recently I've only heard Hyde on the 9LC broadcast, but I was pretty darned impressed.

@erichgroat838

Жыл бұрын

@@el7284 I don't remember where I heard this, but apparently he'd made some "scandalous" remark that he preferred the current sound of St. J's over King's. Who knows. St. J's is now irrelevant anyway.

At 13:15 Mr Ledger availed himself a response to public commentary on the hardness of his consonant attacks.

ca. 23:00 Is that Charles Daniels?

@frillydaffodilly

2 ай бұрын

I thought so And John Butt? Playing organ?

And the rich-as-an-English-Christmas-Cake narrator? Who he?

@johnnotsoyoung3010

3 жыл бұрын

Penny Travers I think it might be Gerald Peacocke who was the headmaster of the choir school

The chorister at 8:29 looks _and sounds_ a lot like Peter Gabriel!

Anyone know what they're singing at 13:00? Absolutely beautiful.

@el7284

7 ай бұрын

Parsons Ave Maria

Many thanks. This is wonderful. Though it's familiar to me, I cannot place the _Nunc Dimittis_ at 26:20; whose is that?

@ianstafford2218

3 жыл бұрын

Howells Evening Service Collegium Regale.

@jdbr4rc

3 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the name of the tenor singing the solo?

@worldnotworld

3 жыл бұрын

@@ianstafford2218 Thank you. The answer came to me as I was going to the market for supper, and you've confirmed it!

@nigelhowells7796

3 жыл бұрын

@@jdbr4rc Charles Daniels en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Daniels_(tenor)

I think I saw Gerald Finley in the choir.. Was he there in this year?

@icelandwedding

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, he's interviewed in the documentary.

55:40

35:40 44:15