{"product_id":"bingham-gjeilo-kings-singers-wonderland","title":"The King's Singers: Wonderland - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWonderland\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eThe King's Singers\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eSignum Classics\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e635212073926\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eClassical Artists\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2023-09-22\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         Wonderland is full of magic and myth. Containing exclusively works commissioned by The King's Singers across their 55 years; the album celebrates their trademark musical storytelling; with no shortage of comedy. György Ligeti's six Nonsense Madrigals; each setting playful children's poetry or extracts from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; provide a musical spine to the album; commemorating 100 years since the composer's birth in 1923. From just over 50 years ago; the fairytale The Musicians of Bremen (1972) - set to music by the Australian composer and Master of the Queen's Music Malcolm Williamson - sits alongside Time Piece (1972) by Paul Patterson; which tells an eccentric alternative creation story. These myth-based works have recent companions such as Judith Bingham's extended work Tricksters (2019); which unearths what could happen if miscreants from different world mythologies could come together for the first time; and Ola Gjeilo's A Dream within a Dream which questions the very nature of perception and reality. The album also features the legendary Japanese film and game composer Joe Hisaishi's first ever choral work; I was there (2022); focussing on the cultural memory of tragic events such as 9\/11 and the 2011 Japan Earthquake. Themes of hope and positivity; centred on the natural world; emerge in Makiko Kinoshita's Ashita no uta (Song for tomorrow) (2020) and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers' Alive (2022).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Ashita no uta (Song for Tomorrow) \u003cbr\u003e1.10 Nonsense Madrigals~The Lobster Quadrille \u003cbr\u003e1.11 Musicians of Bremen\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The King's Singers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40625883938887,"sku":"43695508","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/4391614-3304335.jpg?v=1732535499","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/bingham-gjeilo-kings-singers-wonderland","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}