Twelve arrangements of folk-songs from the British Isles and North America.
Byrt: Among the leaves so green, O
Chapman: She’s like the swallow
Grainger: Londonderry Air
Holst: My sweetheart’s like Venus
James: Bushes and briars
Rutter: Black sheep
Rutter: Dashing away with the smoothing iron
Rutter: O waly, waly
Rutter: Sourwood mountain
Vaughan Williams: Greensleeves
Willcocks: Early one morning
Willcocks: Bobby Shaftoe
This haunting lullaby, written for the choir of King’s College Cambridge, combines economy and restraint with warmth and an intensity of feeling.
Orchestral materials on hire at the OUP link below.
Also available as Digital sheet music
This show-stopping fughetta is part of John Rutter’s ‘musical fable’ The Reluctant Dragon.
Also available in Encores for Choirs.
Instrumental material is available to hire at the OUP link below
Orchestration: pno, bass, dr kit
The beautiful melody, popular words, and flowing accompaniment combine here to memorable effect. Vintage Rutter, and essential repertoire for any unison/upper-voice choir.
There is also a version of this setting for SATB voices. The piece is also included in The John Rutter Piano Album, arranged for solo piano.
Orchestral material is available to hire at the OUP link below.
Orchestration: 2.2.2.1-2.0.0.0-perc.hp-str
An easy anthem with words and music by John Rutter.
There are four different versions of the vocal parts – unison (or two-part) with keyboard, upper voices with keyboard, SA and Men with piano, or SATB unaccompanied or with keyboard. The piece is also included in The John Rutter Piano Album, for solo piano.
An orchestral accompaniment compatible with the SATB version, SA&Men version and the unison version (although the orchestral parts are a semitone higher in the latter two) is available to hire at the OUP link below.
Also available in John Rutter Anthems.
Arrangements for upper voices of The sprig of thyme, I know where I’m going, and O can ye sew cushions. Accompaniments are for piano or chamber ensemble (using one player per string part) or chamber orchestra.
Instrumental material is available to hire at the OUP link below.
Orchestration: fl, ob, cl, bsn, hp, vlns 1 & 2, viola, cello, bass
An upper-voice version of this title, taken from Rutter’s Birthday Madrigals.
Also available as an unaccompanied version for SATBarB
An exquisite setting for upper voices of a love song by Sir Philip Sydney, taken from Rutter’s Birthday Madrigals.
Also available for high voice and piano, and low voice and piano.
A dancing jazz waltz for upper voices, with a stylish and swinging piano part, from Rutter’s Birthday Madrigals.
An easy anthem with words and music by John Rutter. This version is for the SSA and keyboard version. There are four different versions of the vocal parts – unison (or two-part) with keyboard, upper voices with keyboard, SA and Men with piano, or SATB unaccompanied or with keyboard. The piece is also included in The John Rutter Piano Album, for solo piano.
An orchestral accompaniment compatible with the SATB version, SAMen version and the unison version (although the orchestral parts are a semitone higher in the latter two) is available to hire at the OUP link below.
Also available in John Rutter Anthems.
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