The title of this album is misleading. This is not a recording of a live evensong, a service sung daily in the glorious chapel of King’s College, Cambridge. There are no responses, no psalms, no canticles (apart from a Magnificat by Giles Swayne). Instead, we are given a selection of anthems and introits drawn from weekly webcasts made by the choir during the academic year 2013-14 (so not even 2015). It’s a sort of classy greatest hits, with standards such as Mendelssohn’s Hear My Prayer set alongside Poulenc’s acrobatically difficult Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël and works by Tallis, Parsons, Parry and others, all sung with the precision and grace that make this choir world famous.
