BB King
Live At The Regal [ MCA / CD - released 25/May/1998 ] When he stepped onstage at the storied Regal Theatre on Chicago's Southside in November 1964, B.B. King had 30 R&B hits but had barely creased the pop charts. Recorded that night, King's first live album would become an entry point for many white... |
Ben E. King
Don't Play That Song [ Jasmine / CD - released 14/May/2021 ] Although BEN E. KING's name is synonymous with The Drifters, he only actually sang on a dozen tracks with them, most of which were recorded concurrent with the start of his own solo career. This compilation anthologises Ben's solo recordings... |
Ben E King
An Introduction to [ Atlantc Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2017 ] An introduction to Ben E. King. A 10-track compilation of Ben E. King. |
Carole King
Tapestry (25th Anniversary Edition) [ Epic Records / CD - released 19/Sep/1999 ] Originally released in 1971, this landmark album has now been digitally re-mastered with SBM (Super Bit Mapping). 'Tapestry' remains a landmark album that contributed as much to the era as Simon and Garfunkel's 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'. |
PARRY / LEY / HADLEY / WEELKES / BYRD / STANFORD etc
Evensong Live 2019: Anthems and Canticles Choir Of King's College [ King's College Cambridge / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] A glorious collection of choral music by British composers, recorded live during services of Choral Evensong in King's College Chapel. Popular anthems like Hubert Parry's I was glad and Patrick Hadley's My beloved spake are included alongside... |
HACOMPLAYNT / FAYREAX / TAVERNER / TYE / MORLEY / TALLIS
Early English Polyphony - from the Eton Choirbook to Thomas Tallis Choir of King's College Cambridge, David Willcocks & Philip Ledger [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2021 ] When King's College, Cambridge was founded by King Henry VI in 1441, careful provision was made for a choral foundation of sixteen men and sixteen choristers to sing daily services in the Chapel. English worshippers of the late fifteenth and early... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Dixit Dominus / Laudate Pueri Dominum / Organ Concerto Anne Mackay, Isobel Buchanan, William Kendall / The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury [ Decca Eclipse / CD - released 14/Nov/1995 ] Original recordings from 1985 & 1986 |
Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Best Loved Hymns [ EMI Music / CD - released 8/Aug/2001 ] A collection of popular hymns in the Anglican tradition. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom Deacon Tobias Sims / Peter Scorer / Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury [ EMI Music / Warner / CD - released 25/May/2004 ] "King's glorious return to the Russian Liturgy brings a foretaste of paradise" (Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2004) |
Freddy King / Albert King
Four Classic Albums: Four Classic Albums (Let's Hide Away And Dance Away With Freddy King / Freddy King Sings / Boy Girl Boy /The Big Blues) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] In 1949, aged just 15 a young Fred King made the move so many black families had made during the 1940's and left their home in Dallas Texas and moved to Chicago in search of a better life. King had been learning the guitar for some time but now he... |
JANET JENNINGS
Jennings: Voices Of Men James Harrison, James Ioelu, Will King, Katherine Austin, Richard Liu, Sarah Watkins, James Jin, Bill Stoneham [ Atoll / CD - released 16/Apr/2021 ] Including 'Songs of War' and 'Songs of Exile', Voices of Men features leading male vocalists, accompanied by renowned musicians, singing the words of some of New Zealand's most well-known male poets. Brian Turner's words in 'Taking Off', reflect on... |
THE CELTIC VIOL
The Celtic Viol Vol 2 Jordi Savall (treble viols) / Andrew Lawrence King (Irish harp and psalterium) [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "I do hope that classical aficionados not normally interested in early or Irish music will acquire this, for it might be the beginning of a marvelous discovery." (Five Stars AudAud.com) |
B.B. King
Live At San Quentin (180gm)(LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 1/Nov/2012 ] What else could brighten the day of a San Quentin inmate more than a visit of living legend B.B. King? Recorded in the same correctional facility that spawned Johnny Cash's Live At San Quentin, B.B. King's recording oozes the same kind of energy that... |
King Geedorah
Take Me To Your Leader + Anti-Matter (LP & 7" 20th Anniversary Reissue) [ Ninja Tune / 2 LP - released 30/Jun/2023 ] Stone cold classic from the one and only King Geedorah. Originally released in 2003, Take Me To Your Leader stands a crown jewel in the discography of the mighty MF DOOM, and this 20th Anniversary edition is packaged alongside with the original 7"... |
J. S. BACH
King's College Choir sing Bach King's College Choir, Cambridge, David Willcocks, with Simon Preston, organ [ ALTO / CD - released 12/Nov/2012 ] "It's rather nice to go back to the King's way, to the old firm of Willcocks and Preston, and remember what it was that pleased us then. We were not ashamed in those days to accept Bach as a decent Englishman, and we liked to hear his church music in... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Love From King's The King's Men [ King's College Cambridge / CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] Beautiful new arrangements of romantic pop & jazz favourites from the Choral Scholars of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. |
THOMAS WEELKES / WILLIAM BYRD
Tom & Will - Weelkes & Byrd: 400 Years The King's Singers & Fretwork [ Signum / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] 400 years ago, in 1623, England lost two of its greatest composers: William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes. In a pro- gramme marking this double anniversary, The King's Singers and Fretwork turn their focus to the bold personalities of these two men, Will... |
LIVE AT THE BBC PROMS
The King's Singers Live at the BBC Proms The King's Singers [ Signum Vision DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] A live and televised recording from this year's BBC Proms performance on 5th August by the most famous a cappella group ever: the King's Singers. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The King's Singers - When You Wish Upon a Star: 100 Years of Disney Songs The King's Singers, with Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Pene Pati (tenor), Pene Pati (tenor), Edgar Moreau (cello), Lucienne Renaudin Vary (trumpet) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Featuring songs from Disney's most iconic animated films from every decade, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1937 through the hits of 2020 |
Morgana King
Four Classic Albums (For You, For Me, For Evermore / Sings The Blues / The Greatest Songs Ever Swung / Let Me Love You) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2011 ] Morgana King's professional singing career began at age sixteen as Morgana King.[12] When she sang in a Greenwich Village nightclub in 1953, a record label executive took interest after being impressed with the unique phrasing and multi-octave range.... |