LONDON PRIDE (Noël Coward) performed by the King's Singers (1977) скачать в хорошем качестве

LONDON PRIDE (Noël Coward) performed by the King's Singers (1977)

As a King's Singers fan, I waited years for the release in digital of some of their earlier albums - after all, the KS sound better in digital, at least for me, given the state of my older LPs. Most of such albums were re-released in CD but, disappointingly, in a few cases I'm rather sure this never has been done. A number of tracks is downloadable in compressed format, but I didn't find the listening experience up to CD standards and the vinyl sounds snappier and more open. Tracks of the KS's first LPs have been randomly put in the various CD compilations released since the early Nineties; others were or are performed live by the King's Singers: videos on the internet can be of help in this respect. Some music from the KS's repertoire, however, seems to have been dropped for ever by the KS (physiological after all) and only survives in the grooves of old vinyls - and in EMI's vaults somewhere. Besides, not only there are songs and arrangements hardly ever performed or recorded by anybody, but I often found that the King's Singers' versions remain outstanding, and, possibly, are often superior to anything available. This is why I digitized some of my LPs, alas never in mint condition - I hope you'll appreciate anyway. As to technicalities, I used a Thorens TD160S MkV turntable, with a Roksan cartridge. For A/D conversion, I fed the phono signal from my hifi amplifier into a Focusrite Saffire PRO14. VinylStudio is the SW I handled the digital audio with. I didn't want to fiddle too much with it, but I did brush away clicks and pops to some extent - unfortunately, VinylStudio was unable to get rid of "swishes". So what you hear is basically flat from the disc. The YT video your're listening to embeds an MP3 - VinylStudio seems well equipped for audio file downsizing. I'm uploading here tracks from the LP THE KING'S SINGERS SING FLANDERS & SWANN AND NOEL COWARD, released in 1977 - great arrangements by the first and finest KS arrangers and great fun to listen to. Get ready for crafty music, actually beautiful melodies, old English humor and references to people or facts of the past. It's all completely a cappella. The LP catalogue no. is EMC 3196, was produced by Nick Ingman and the engineer was John Kurlander. Tracks 1-8 are by Flanders & Swann, with arrangements by Gordon Langford; while tracks on the B-side (9-15) are by Noël Coward, arranged by Daryl Runswick. They were recorded at Abbey Road Studios and A.I.R. London Studios. The ambience of the recording environment does change from side A to B - the latter has a wider stereo spread - but which studio was used for which side is not said. Here the King's Singers are: Nigel Perrin and Alastair Hume, countertenors Alastair Thompson, tenor Anthony Holt and Simon Carrington, baritones Brian Kay, bass. I'm gradually publishing on YT stuff from A FRENCH COLLECTION (1973), CONCERT COLLECTION (1976) and VICTORIAN COLLECTION (1980), and maybe some bits and pieces from other LPs. I'm putting out the tracks one at the time, with not too long an interval between one another. I'd be glad of feedbacks from other fans. Here are the lyrics of LONDON PRIDE There's a little city flower, ever spring unveiling, growing in the crevices, by some London railing. Though it has a Latin name in town and countryside, we in England call it London Pride. London Pride has been handed down to us, London Pride is a flower that's free. London Pride means our own dear town to us, and our pride it forever shall be. Whoa, Liza, see the coster barrows, vegetable marrow and the fruit piled high, oh, Liza, little London sparrows, Covent Garden market where the costers cry. Cockney feet mark the beat of history. Every street pins a memory down. Nothing ever can quite replace the grace of London Town. In our city, darkened now, street and square and crescent, we can feel our living past in our shadowed present. Ghosts beside the starlit Thames who lived and loved and died keep throughout the ages London Pride. London Pride has been handed down to us. London Pride is a flower that's free. London Pride means our own dear town to us, and our pride it for ever shall be. Grey city stubbornly implanted, taken so for granted for a thousand years. Stay, city, smokily enchanted, cradle of our memories and hopes and fears. Every Blitz your resistance toughening, from the Ritz to the Anchor and Crown, Nothing ever could override the pride of London Town.