CD, Rutter (composer)
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John Rutter: Requiem
RecommendedNicolas Rimmer (organ), Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano)
Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia, Timothy Brown
Naxos continues its conquest of Cambridge's college choirs and finds that from Clare College on excellent form. I suspect this will be one of those Naxos recordings that sells by the ten thousand... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2003, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Rutter: Gloria & Other Sacred Music
Polyphony, City of London Sinfonia & Wallace Collection, Stephen Layton
This superb disc contains a balanced cross- section of Rutter's sacred choral music, spanning over a quarter century and featuring several first recordings. Rutter's stylistic hallmarks are... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2001, Editor's Choice
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All the Stars Looked Down: A John Rutter Celebration
Daniel Hyde, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia
Rutter favourites such as Dormi, Jesu, Nativity Carol and All Bells in Paradise receive radiant performances under Daniel Hyde's highly sympathetic direction, with the Britten Sinfonia adding... —
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The Celebration Overture (2023) opens with an orchestral peeling of bells evocative, dare I say it, of a certain season breezy and in the long tradition of British light music. More weighty... —
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Rutter: Brass at Christmas
RecommendedSheffield Philharmonic Chorus, Black Dyke Band, Darius Battiwalla, Nicholas Childs
Not surprisingly the blend is immaculate, as is the characteristic brass-band vibrato...For me, the standout tracks are the Star Carol (with some great moments for the euphoniums, in a sense... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th December 2024
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O Holy Night: Christmas Carols From St John’s
Alexander Robson, Montague Tatnell (soprano), Arthur Cobb (soprano), Bryony Macleod-Jones (soprano), Alice Markham (vocalist), Theodore Horch (tenor), Alexander Semple (bass-baritone), Nicholas Garcia (soprano), Matthew Monaghan (vocalist), Anna Morgan (vocalist), William Collison (tenor), Garbhán...
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The famed King’s Singers attention to pin-point pitching, slick ensemble, and deft balances between the voices are present in abundance. The two Beatles arrangements are particularly successful…The... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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Special offer. In the Poet's Garden
Melanie Marshall, Roderick Williams (baritone), Taplow Young Voices (children's choir), Catrin Finch (harp), Matthew Jorysz, Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, John Rutter
If London Town's unison voices are a little 'school production, there are fascinating stylistic mismatches in the Three Shakespeare Songs, which embrace jazzy rhythms and harmonies. And there's... —
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A Pembroke Christmas
Emma Johnson (clarinet), Wallis Power, The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Anna Lapwood
Highlights include a numinous take on MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, Ailsa McTernan’s soaring solo in Patricia Van Ness’s ‘Archangelus’ and a performance of Kerensa Briggs’s A Tender Shoot, which... —
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Special offer. John Rutter: A Song in Season
RecommendedNew sacred choral music by John Rutter
Cambridge Singers & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, John Rutter
The Wells Jubilate is typical Rutter - brightly melodic, immediately communicative, and well calculated to bring executive satisfaction to the performers...With Rutter himself conducting his... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2010
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