Depart in Peace

Rutter composed this elegant setting of the Evensong canticle Nunc Dimittis in homage to and in the style of composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, whose own Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis settings are staples of the English sacred choral repertoire.

An accompanying setting of the Magnificat (‘My soul doth magnify the Lord’) is also available from Oxford University Press.