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Come and Sing The Creation – A Celebration in Music with John Rutter

Join The Bach Choir’s President, John Rutter, and members of The Bach Choir for a choral training day. Rehearse and perform the choruses from Parts 1 and 2 of Haydn’s great oratorio, The Creation, framed by three John Rutter anthems on this theme: Look at the world, For the beauty of the earth, and The Lord bless you and keep you.

Tickets are £25 for singers; £5 for audience members; and £8 for students or those in full-time education.

John Rutter Conductor
Temple Church Choir
The Purcell Singers
James McVinnie Organ
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Your Christmas treat truly awaits with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and John Rutter in a concert that is guaranteed to lift the festive spirits. One of the nation’s favourite modern composers presents and conducts his own popular works and arrangements, with beautiful symphonic and choral classics and sing-a-long carols.

Joined by the renowned Temple Church Choir and the musically ‘immaculate’ (LA Times) organist James McVinnie, there’s nowhere better to make sure your Christmas is well and truly underway in Croydon’s new look Fairfield Halls.

John Rutter Conductor
Andrew Lucas Organ
St Albans Bach Choir
The Temple Church Choir
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

There’s no better way to enjoy the festive spirit than attending John Rutter’s popular Christmas Celebration, conducted and presented to you by John Rutter himself and performed for you by the world famous Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Don’t miss this Christmas extravaganza at the magnificent Royal Albert Hall, brimming with sing-along carols, rousing fanfares, festive favourites and John Rutter’s annual quiz to fill you with Christmas sparkle and cheer. A firm Yuletide favourite!

 

John Rutter Conductor
Andrew Lucas Organ
St Albans Bach Choir
The Temple Church Choir
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

There’s no better way to enjoy the festive spirit than attending John Rutter’s popular Christmas Celebration, conducted and presented to you by John Rutter himself and performed for you by the world famous Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Don’t miss this Christmas extravaganza at the magnificent Royal Albert Hall, brimming with sing-along carols, rousing fanfares, festive favourites and John Rutter’s annual quiz to fill you with Christmas sparkle and cheer. A firm Yuletide favourite!

JOHN RUTTER

Visions

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS  

Fantasia on Christmas Carols (Version for Strings and Organ)

Carols old and new by Warlock, Chilcott, Rutter and many others

Natalia Lomeiko violin
Roderick Williams baritone
The Choir of Magdalen College
The Choir of New College
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
John Rutter conductor

Ralph Vaughan Williams was enchanted by the beauty of traditional melodies and folk tunes. The composer’s Fantasia on Christmas Carols sees him transform those tunes into something new, something festive and something uniquely atmospheric. If the Fantasia celebrates beauty in restraint, then there’s plenty of jubilant fare in our Christmas Celebration to raise the spirits. The Orchestra and Concertmaster Natalia Lomeiko are joined by Roderick Williams, two of Oxford’s finest chapel choirs and a guest from Cambridge – the King of carols himself, John Rutter.

Join John Rutter and the Bach Choir for Cambridge Summer Music’s Christmas Concert. Programme to include traditional carols and works by John Rutter.

A true celebration of Christmas, in the atmospheric surroundings of Our Lady and the English Martyrs Catholic Church.

John Rutter – Conductor
Bach Choir
David Hill – Organ

Bath Camerata
John Rutter Conductor
Michael Papadopoulis Organ

Following last year’s sell-out concert, Bath Camerata is delighted to welcome John Rutter back as the conductor of A Camerata Christmas 2019! Join Bath Camerata for what promises to be a thoroughly uplifting performance of music for the festive season, old and new, in beautiful settings and arrangements (including some by John Rutter himself), with favourite carols for the audience to join in with – all presided over with gusto and style by ‘Mr Christmas’ himself! What better way to get into the Christmas spirit?

The Christ Church Choir
Kyros Brass Ensemble
John Rutter Guest Conductor

Two concerts – 15:00 & 19:00

The Christ Church Choir and Kyros Brass Ensemble, with organ and percussion, combine under the direction of John Rutter to offer two performances of a program of Christmas music for the whole family. Featuring Mr. Rutter’s famous Gloria, various carols for all to sing, famous choral carols by Mr. Rutter, and Daniel Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata, this concert is Christ Church’s Christmas gift to the greater community. This is a FREE concert so bring the entire family! There is a 4-ticket limit per request.

After the huge success of the 2019 Come and Sing with John Rutter, there have been many requests for a repeat workshop, so John Rutter will be returning to the Royal Concert Hall for another great day of singing.

If you love singing and can read a bit of music, this inspiring workshop is for you. Led by the celebrated composer and conductor John Rutter, Come and Sing is an afternoon of choral singing designed to lift the spirits. The music will be a mixture of old and new, including some of John Rutter’s own well-loved choral works.

Image courtesy of Apoorva Lele Photography