A sumptuous programme of music for multiple choirs with the dazzling Tallis 40-part motet Spem in alium nunquam habui as the centrepiece.
This is a re-release of the classic Cambridge Singers recording, using modern digital sound restoration, allowing the music to be heard in its full sonic splendour.
Reflections on a royal funeral from a musician’s-eye view.
This year marks 50 years since the publication of Jesus Child.
It’s a sensible enough question, and one that every composer is asked – yet none of us has a good answer.
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.
This CD of Richard Rodney Bennett’s works spans over 30 years from the Five Carols written in 1967, through to A Farewell to Arms written in 2001. Bennett’s choral pieces are possessed of a gift for heart-melting, memorable and quintessentially English melody – and an instinctive lyric responsiveness to English poetry.
John was recently a guest on the Choralosophy Podcast: Finding Your Niche, hosted by Chris Munce.
Alongside Gloria and several of Rutter’s most popular shorter pieces (including For the Beauty of the Earth and All things Bright and Beautiful), are pieces especially recorded for this release – Cantate Domino, Arise, Shine, Wedding Canticle and Hymn to the Creator of Light.
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.
This two-CD set is a choral tribute to the sacred music of two visionary composers: Stanford and Howells, who, among their other achievements, made distinctive, lasting and much-cherished contributions to the musical repertory of the English Church.
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