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| | Watching the White Wheat: Folk Songs of the British Isles; King's Singers | | | Music Artist : | | King's Singers | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | EMI Classics | | Release Date : | | 1990-10-25 | | Store Price : | | $16.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $16.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Lamorna
2. Barbara Allen
3. Bobby Shaftoe
4. Early One Morning
5. Jack the Jolly Tar
6. Oak and the Ash
7. O Waly, Waly
8. Raggle Taggle Gypsy
9. She Moved Through the Fair
10. Migildi Magildi
11. Bugeilo'r Gwenith Gwyn (Watching the White Wheat)
12. Star of the County Down
13. Londonderry Air
14. Dance to Your Daddy
15. O My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose
16. There's Nae Luck About the House
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Gorgeous music
Submitted on: 2007-11-05 |
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| The Kings Singers are great, and this is probably my favorite of their CDs. No too-catchy tunes (like "What shall we do with a drunken sailor" on the Annie Laurie CD). Just terrific music, sung very well. |
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Great CD!!!
Submitted on: 2007-04-04 |
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| I love this cd, the king's singers are one of my favorite groups ever and this is one of my favorite cds of theirs. |
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An old favorite
Submitted on: 2006-11-06 |
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A mix of the traditional and the modern which is itself timeless. I bought the CD to replace my cassette which was lost in a theft. I've owned this album for over 20 years and it remains a must have.
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My favourite album of folksongs
Submitted on: 2002-05-26 |
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| I loved The Kings Singers since their debut album (now available on CD). This recording is one of many fine albums they have made. The musical arrangements are sensitive, and enhance the character of the simple tunes selected. Daryl Runswick and Gordon Langford, veteran Kings Singers arrangers, wrote several of them, but there is also a lovely arrangement of The Star of the County Down by Howard Goodall (who has written all the music for Rowan Atkinson's TV shows and the themes for Red Dwarf and The Vicar of Dibley). I love every single track, but here are a few particularly interesting ones:
John Rutter's arrangement of Barbara Allen
Early One Morning, arranged by one of the group (Jeremy Jackman) Daryl Runswick's arrangements of O Waly, Waly and She Moved Through the Fair
Watching the White Wheat (sung in Welsh) Highly recommended. |
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This is King's Singers at their top
Submitted on: 2001-07-06 |
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| This is a performer's CD! I bought this CD in college, and it's still one of my treasured favorites for what it does: it captures the essence of near-flawless performance...diction, intonation, lyrical expression...the overall musically of this group is not enhanced by studio post-production. You get the same live as you get with this recording, and if you've done small ensemble work before, you'll love this recording. They even have 11 of these 16 songs in a songbook entitled "The King's Singers' Folk Songs" (Faber & Faber), with every note on the CD turned into spots on the page. |
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