Treat for the ears from venerable and meticulous English masters.

After a half-hour or so of the King’s Singers, you stop trying to pick out individual notes and just let their warmth of feeling wash over you. The arrangements (mostly by Brit Alexander L’Estrange) are probably their chief glory. In Brisbane, the two biggest hits were Night and Day and Cole Porter’s great tune Let’s Misbehave– which featured some outrageously cultivated English accents. If you’ve never heard the British group, you really do have to give them a go – preferably live. Fortunately, it appears that Australia is finally a regular destination on their tour calendar.

The King’s Singers are very, very nearly a technically perfect ensemble. Formed in 1968 by a sextet of vocal scholars of the Choir of King’s College Cambridge, the English church choir style – and obsessive attention to detail – has persisted. If there was a missed note in their two-and-a-bit hour concert, I missed it. Their pace is relentless, too. This is not easy music. Their music is delicate, light, intricate, often witty – and always English.

They’re the original pop/classical crossover group. In a typical King’s Singers concert you might hear half a...