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This is a tuneful Epiphany carol, setting a text by the composer. Underpinned by a beautiful cello solo, the vocal lines are rich and flowing, and the organ supports the choir with warm harmonies. The carol was written at the invitation of Red Balloon, a Cambridge-based UK-wide organization dedicated to the recovery of bullied children.… Read more »
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A Ukrainian Prayer
John writes: ‘How can a composer respond to a global tragedy? By writing music is the most obvious thing. Like everybody, I’ve been shocked and dismayed by the events of recent days, and the first thing I wanted to do was write some music that would respond in my own way.’ The score is available… Read more »
Fauré: Introit and Kyrie from Requiem (ed. John Rutter)
Taken from Rutter’s edition of Fauré’s Requiem, the famous Introit and Kyrie features both the original French words and an optional English text, translated and adapted for singing by John Rutter himself. Its brevity and touching poignancy makes it a suitable addition to funerals and All Souls Day services. John Rutter’s complete edition of Fauré’s… Read more »
Birthday Madrigals
Rutter’s music captures the varied moods of Shakespeare’s words, with their rapture, sorrow, humour, and vitality, in a way that makes these classic madrigal texts come alive for contemporary audiences. These pieces may be performed individually or as a five-movement suite. It was a lover and his lass, My true love hath my heart, and… Read more »
Arise, shine
This is a glorious and luminescent setting of verses from Isaiah 60. Rutter captures perfectly the essence of the text, the music moving through bold determination to quiet reflection before coming to a rousing conclusion.
I would be true
This tender arrangement of the well-loved Irish folk melody Londonderry Air sets an uplifting poem by Howard Walter: a stirring combination of music and text that was also used at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997. Opening with the melody sung by tutti sopranos, the texture gradually builds to a climatic double… Read more »
Give the king thy judgements, O God
The second of two Rutter anthems celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, Give the king thy judgements, O God is a ceremonial work that draws upon the Book of Psalms alongside text written by the composer to create a suitably festive piece. Although the prevailing mood is jubilant, the closing pages provide a prayerful… Read more »
Celebrate Christmas with John Rutter and Bach Choir Voices
Join John Rutter, Bach Choir Voices and our Artistic Advisor David Hill at the newly refurbished OLEM organ, for an evening of traditional Christmas favourites, recent seasonal gems and some of John Rutter’s own carols. The concert will feature Cambridge premieres of two new compositions by John Rutter – Joseph’s Carol and I sing of a maiden, as well as Stanford’s… Read more »
Cantate Domino
An unusual and dramatic anthem for SATB choir (with divisions) unaccompanied The English verses, starting ‘O sing unto the Lord a new song’, are framed by the Latin first line ‘Cantate Domino canticum novum‘. The words and plainsong melody of the Veni Creator Spiritus make an unexpected and effective entry towards the end of the… Read more »
The Lord bless you and keep you (SATB)
John Rutter’s much-loved setting of the Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24) is here included in the John Rutter Anniversary Edition, with an illuminating composer’s note and useful performance hints. Available in versions for SATB, upper voices, SA and Men, high voice and piano, low voice and piano, solo piano and TTBB The piece is also… Read more »