Brian Kay
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Brian Christopher Kay (born 12 May 1944) is an English radio presenter, conductor and singer. He is well-known as the bass in the King's Singers during the group's formative years from 1968 to 1982, and as such is to be heard on many of their 1970s recordings. He was also the voice of Papageno in the film Amadeus and the lowest frog in the Paul McCartney song "We All Stand Together" ("The Frog's Chorus").
He is noted as a choral conductor, being the former conductor (and now president) of the Leith Hill Musical Festival and former director of the Huddersfield Choral Society. He is principal conductor of the Really Big Chorus.
On radio, he has been a presenter of Friday Night is Music Night on BBC Radio 2 and until 2006 presented 3 for All and Brian Kay's Light Programme, a weekly programme about light music on BBC Radio 3. In 1996 he won the Sony Radio Award as Music Presenter of the Year.
He is a patron of Bampton Classical Opera and president of The English Arts Chorale, the Harrogate Choral Society and the Bristol Bach Choir.
Kay is the vice president of the Royal School of Church Music and of the Association of British Choral Directors.
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- For I the ballad (All’s Well That Ends Well) [Arr. for Tenor Solo by Ross W. Duffin] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Ah Robin (Twelfth Night) [Arr. for 2 Tenors and Bass by Brian Kay] [Formerly attrib. to Henry VIII] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Woodycock (Arr. for Viola da Gamba and Ensemble by Robert Eisenstein and Brian Kay) - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- My Lord Chamberlaine, His Galliard - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Please One and Please All / Tarleton’s Jig (Twelfth Night) [Arr. for Tenor, Soprano and Ensemble by Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Pastime with Good Company (Henry VIII) [Arr. for Soprano and Ensemble by Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Green Grow’th the Holly (Henry VIII) [Arr. for Soprano and Ensemble by Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Lady Carey’s Dance (Arr. for Hammered Dulcimer and Theorbo by Tina Bergmann) - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- I Cannot Come Ev’ry Day to Woo (Taming of the Shrew) [Arr. for Ensemble, Tenor and Soprano by R.W. Duffin, Joseph Trapanese & Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- The King of Denmark’s Galliard (Hamlet) - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Bonny Sweet Robin (Hamlet) [Arr. for Soprano and Harp by Anna O’Connell] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Why Let The Strucken Deer Go Weep (Hamlet) [Arr. for Tenor Solo by R.W. Duffin & Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- And Will He Not Come Again / Go From My Window (Hamlet) [Arr. for Soprano Solo by R.W. Duffin & Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Tarleton’s Riserrectione (Hamlet) - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Lighte of Love (Two Gentlemen of Verona) - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Sigh No More Ladies / Lilliburleo (Much Ado About Nothing) [Arr. for Ensemble and Bass by Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Jig Divided Twelve Ways (Arr. for Solo Violin by Tina Chancey) - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind / Goddesses (As You Like It) [Arr. for Tenor and Renaissance Violin by R.W. Duffin, Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Chi Passa (Two Noble Kinsmen) [Arr. for Colascione and Ensemble by Ryan Tyndall and Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Orsino’s Request (Twelfth Night) - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Come Away, Death (Twelfth Night) [Arr. for Tenor and Lute by R.W. Duffin and Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- O Mistress Mine (Twelfth Night) [Arr. for Ensemble, Cittern, Lute and Treble Viol by Mark Cudek, Ronn McFarlane, and Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- If Music be the Food of Love (Twelfth Night) - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Fortune, My Foe (Merry Wives of Windsor) [Arr. for Bass and Lute by Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Where Should This Music Be? / La Rossignol (The Tempest) [Arr. for Voice and Lutes by Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- O Death, Rock Me Asleep (Henry IV) [Arr. for Tenor and Lute by Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home (As You Like It) - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Walsingham (Hamlet) [Arr. for Soprano and Harp by Anna O’Connell] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Pardon Goddess of the Night / Rest Awhile, You Cruel Cares (Much Ado About Nothing) [Arr. for Soprano and Viol Consort by Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Mrs. White's Nothing - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Willow Song (Othello) [Arr. for Tenor and Lute by Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- Wedding is Great Juno's Crown / Lord Strang's March (As You Like It) [Arr. for Ensemble, Tenor, Lute and Percussion by Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
- You Spotted Snakes / Robin Goodfellow (Midsummer Night’s Dream) [Arr. for Ensemble, Tenor, and Voices by R.W. Duffin, Joseph Trapanese, and Brian Kay] - Play, Music! - Songs from Shakespeare's Plays - Brian Kay
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