Release Day: In the Poet’s Garden

A brand-new recording, ‘In the Poet’s Garden’, is out now, featuring John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers, Taplow Young Voices, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Roderick Williams (baritone), Melanie Marshall (mezzo-soprano), Catrin Finch (harp) and Matthew Jorysz (piano).

In the Poet’s Garden is an album of music by John Rutter, inspired by the work of poets, such as William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Causley, and others.

Track listing:

• I’ll make me a world (words by James Weldon Johnson)
• London Town: A choral celebration
  Prologue: The bells of London (words by Delphine Chalmers)
  London Zoo (words by John Rutter)
  Mind the gap (words by Delphine Chalmers)
  Lines written in the Tower of London (words by Sir Walter Raleigh)
  The River’s Tale (words by Rudyard Kipling)
  Finale and Epilogue (words by William Wordsworth)
• Dancing Tree (words by Charles Causley)
  Stone in the water and Foxglove
  In my garden
  Dandelion
  Daniel Brent
  At Candlemas
  I am the song
• Three Shakespeare Songs
  O mistress mine
  Be not afeard
  Sigh no more, ladies
• When music sounds (words by Walter de la Mare)

John writes:

‘Any composer interested in vocal and choral music is both inspired and nourished by poetry.  Second only to music, words are my great love, and from my earliest years I have enjoyed seeking out poetry that seems to invite musical setting. This album brings together some of my recent choral music where the words provided the first inspiration and the music followed.’

The whole album is now available to buy/stream/download: lnk.to/InThePoetsGarden