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Track(s) taken from SIGCD635

Takeda lullaby

composer
Anonymous - traditional
Japanese folksong
arranger
Grayston Ives (b1948)
author of text
Anonymous - traditional

The King's Singers
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Recording details: February 2020
Snape Maltings, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Produced by Nicholas Parker
Engineered by Mike Hatch
Release date: October 2020
Total duration: 3 minutes 20 seconds
 

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The King's Singers
From many thousand miles away, but equally full of nostalgia, is Takeda lullaby—a Japanese folksong which Julian has known since his childhood, and which we have enjoyed performing on recent tours of Japan. The song originally comes from the city of Kyoto, and is a lament for home, sung by a woman who has been forced to travel to the other side of the mountains to work for a rich family. This arrangement was written by our former tenor in The King’s Singers, Grayston (Bill) Ives (b1948) as part of a larger set of folksong arrangements.

from notes by The King's Singers © 2020

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