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The Choir of King's College Cambridge is arguably the world's most famous choral group. This new album is a tour of the ecclesiastical year from Advent through to Ascension. The paired ancient and modern settings represented on the album showcase the vast range of music that the choir performs each season reflecting Christ's birth, death and resurrection through the festivals of Advent, Christmas, Candlemas, Lent, Easter and Ascension. The rest of the year, known as Ordinary time, is focused more on Christ's ministry on earth. A Year at King's includes such favorites as Allegri's Miserere and Barber's Agnus Dei, an arrangement of his famous Adagio for Strings, as well as the first recording of Tavener's Away in a Manger, written for King's College Choir's 2004 `Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols'. The rest of the program comprises works composed between the 15th and 20th centuries by Palestrina, Pärt and Poulenc, Lassus, Holst, Guerrero, Eccard, Peter Philips and Stanford. The disc is rounded off with a spectacular performance of Tallis's Spem in alium. On this, as on many previous King's College Choir recordings, the conductor is Stephen Cleobury, organist and Director of Music at King's since 1982.