Rutter: Requiem and other choral works

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Here is music finely crafted, written with love for the art and an especial care for choral sound.
It's melodious without being commonplace, harmonically rich without being sticky, modern in... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: CDA66947
Label: Hyperion
Length: 69 minutes

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Rutter: Requiem

Work length35:04

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Rosa Mannion (soprano)
Polyphony, Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Stephen Layton

I. Requiem aeternam

Track length5:42

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II. Out of the deep

Track length5:32

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III. Pie Jesu

Track length4:01

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IV. Sanctus

Track length1:51

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V. Agnus Dei

Track length6:26

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VI. The Lord is my shepherd

Track length5:06

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VII. Lux aeterna

Track length6:26

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Rutter: Hymn to the Creator of Light

Work length6:37

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Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: God be in my head

Work length1:40

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Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: A Gaelic blessing

Work length1:54

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Polyphony, Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Stephen Layton

Rutter: Psalmfest

Work length4:46

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Polyphony
Stephen Layton

V. Cantate Domino

Track length4:46

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Rutter: Open Thou Mine Eyes

Work length2:45

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Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: A prayer of Saint Patrick

Work length1:43

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Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: A choral fanfare

Work length2:08

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Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: Birthday Madrigals

Work length9:24

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Polyphony
Stephen Layton

II. Draw on, sweet night

Track length5:47

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IV. My true love hath my heart

Track length3:37

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Rutter: The Lord bless you and keep you

Work length2:59

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Polyphony, Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Stephen Layton

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John Rutter composed his Requiem in 1985. The work follows the precedents of Brahms and Faure in using carefully selected texts in place of much of the standard Missa Pro defunctis sequence. The resulting composition has an arch-like formal structure within which is contained some of Rutter's most haunting (and, in the case of The Lord is my shepherd, well known) choral music to date. Also included are two items from the Birthday Madrigals collection composed in honour of the jazz pianist George Shearing, and eight further sacred works. The double-choir Hymn to the Creator of Light is a wonderful composition, far removed from the romantic style with which Rutter has sometimes been associated; the work here receives its first recording. The Lord bless you and keep you makes a most felicitous ending to the programmeone of those tunes that just will not leave your head.

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2010

Here is music finely crafted, written with love for the art and an especial care for choral sound.
It's melodious without being commonplace, harmonically rich without being sticky, modern in the graceful way of a child who grows up responsive to newness but not wanting to kick his elders in the teeth. He gives us the heart's desire. But he's on too familiar terms with our heart's desires, he doesn't extend them, or surprise us into realising that they were deeper and subtler than we thought. This is by way of cautiously savouring a remembered taste, which could readily be indulged without perceived need for an interval: one item leads to another and before we know it the pleasurable hour is over. The Requiem is the longest work; the other pieces vary from two to just over six minutes.
Most are unaccompanied and show the choir of 25 voices as another of those expert groups of assured and gifted professionals that are among the principal adornments of modern musical life. Their capacity as a virtuoso choir is tested in the Cantate Domino and Choral Fanfare, but Rutter writes for real singers (not just singer-musicians) and their tone is unfailingly beautiful. The two soloists are excellent.

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