Recordings
The Sacred Flame £14.00
$18.53 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers | La Nuova Musica
John Rutter (conductor)
The Sacred Flame
A treasure-trove of Baroque and Renaissance motets, including works by Bach, Buxtehude, Gabrieli, Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Palestrina, Schütz and Sweelinck. All performed in glorious new recordings from the Cambridge Singers at their sensuous and virtuosic best, joined here on disc by the acclaimed early music ensemble La Nuova Musica.
Feel the Spirit £9.00
$11.91 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers | Melanie Marshall (mezzo-soprano) | BBC Concert Orchestra
John Rutter (conductor)
Feel the Spirit
Strong, stirring spirituals and tuneful, jazz-flavoured settings of Shakespeare’s timeless lyrics are the mouth-watering ingredients of the Cambridge Singers’ album Feel the Spirit. Vivid arrangements and settings by John Rutter and George Shearing.
There is sweet music £9.00
$11.91 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers
John Rutter (conductor)
There is sweet music
Featuring masterpieces by Britten, Vaughan Williams, Stanford, Delius and Elgar alongside folk-song arrangements by Bairstow, Chapman, Grainger, Holst, Moeran and Stanford, this collection highlights a golden age of the English part-song.
Sing, ye Heavens £14.00
$18.53 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers | City of London Sinfonia
John Rutter (conductor)
Sing, ye Heavens
21 hymns reflecting 15 centuries of Christianity. Gregorian chant rubs shoulders with German chorales, Celtic folk melodies and 18th-century London street songs (in Anglican guise) in arrangements ranging from delicate harp accompaniment to thrilling festival treatments with brass, timpani, percussion and organ.
Christmas Night £9.00
$11.91 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers | City of London Sinfonia
John Rutter (conductor)
Christmas Night
The night of Christ’s birth, depicted in 22 carols spanning six centuries. Includes Rutter originals Nativity Carol and There is a Flower alongside choral classics such as Darke’s In the Bleak Mid-Winter, Howells’ A Spotless Rose and Cornelius’ The Three Kings.
Handel: Messiah £14.00
$18.53 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | John Rutter (conductor)
Handel: Messiah
The world’s best-loved sacred choral work. Among Handel’s 20 or more oratorios, Messiah has long been the most-often performed, holding a place of honour in the hearts of audiences everywhere. This beautiful two-CD set features the complete oratorio.
Flora gave me fairest flowers £9.00
$11.91 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers
John Rutter (conductor)
Flora gave me fairest flowers
John Rutter directs members of the Cambridge Singers in a programme of English Madrigals.
Fancies
This album explores the secular works by Rutter: Fancies is an Elizabethan poetry cycle; When Icicles Hang sets texts by Shakespeare and Campion; the Five Childhood Lyrics set a group of simple rhymes in a spirit of fun and fairytale; and the six-movement Suite Antique for flute, harpsichord and strings ranges from simple, classic ‘aria’ to upbeat ‘jazz waltz’.
Tarik O’Regan: Voices £14.00
$18.53 Guide price
Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Timothy Brown (conductor)
Tarik O’Regan: Voices
Voices, a collection of 14 première recordings of the music of Tarik O’Regan, one of the most exciting choral composers to emerge in the 21st century. His music is tonal, although edgy and definably contemporary.
Lighten our Darkness £14.00
$18.53 Guide price
The Cambridge Singers
John Rutter (conductor)
Lighten our Darkness
The complete Office of Compline in English, as recorded in the sumptuous acoustic of the Ely Cathedral Lady Chapel, together with 18 lovely a cappella motets written to adorn the the evening worship of the church. Two-CD set.