Rutter: A Song in Season / Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic

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Label
Collegium Records
Release Date
September 1, 2010
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      RUTTER, JOHN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Rutter, Cambridge Singers, Birch, Crouch, Gill, Ward, Davidson, Thomso
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 01, 2010
    • UPC
      040888013525
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      COLCD135
    • LABEL
      Collegium Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. Wells Jubilate

      Composer: John Rutter

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: John Birch

      Conductor: John Rutter

    2. Look to the day

      Composer: John Rutter

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: John Birch

      Conductor: John Rutter

    3. To every thing there is a season

      Composer: John Rutter

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: John Birch

      Conductor: John Rutter

    4. Carol of the Magi

      Composer: John Rutter

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Gabriel Crouch, Tim Gill, John Birch

      Conductor: John Rutter

    5. O Lord, Thou hast searched me out

      Composer: John Rutter

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Laila Ward, John Birch

      Conductor: John Rutter

    6. Most glorious Lord of life

      Composer: John Rutter

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Grace Davidson, John Birch

      Conductor: John Rutter

    7. Look at the world

      Composer: John Rutter

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: John Birch

      Conductor: John Rutter

    8. Veni Sancte Spiritus

      Composer: John Rutter

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: John Birch

      Conductor: John Rutter

    9. O Lord, Thou hast been our refuge

      Composer: John Rutter

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Brian Thomson, John Birch

      Conductor: John Rutter

    10. I am with you always

      Composer: John Rutter

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: John Birch

      Conductor: John Rutter

    11. The King of Blis

      Composer: John Rutter

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: John Birch

      Conductor: John Rutter

    12. Winchester Te Deum

      Composer: John Rutter

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: John Birch

      Conductor: John Rutter


The Wells Jubilate is typical Rutter – brightly melodic, immediately communicative, and well calculated to bring executive satisfaction to the performers without over-stretching them technically.

Brass fanfares cap the organ accompaniment resplendently: it’s an effective opener, though perhaps the concluding Winchester Te Deum is even more stirringly celebratory. ‘Look to the Day’ (written for Cancer Research UK) is similarly tuneful and optimistic...

I personally prefer Rutter in less glib and comfortable mode: ‘Lord, thou hast been our refuge’, for instance, combines a resonant part for solo trumpet with a sustained seriousness in addressing the biblical text, plumbing deeper emotions than he finds in the more cosy, extrovert settings. ‘O Lord, thou hast searched me out’ (commemorating George Guest) is similarly reflective, cor anglais this time providing the obbligato commentary.

With Rutter himself conducting his own, outstanding Cambridge singers, these excellently recorded performances have a grip and authority hard to equal.

-- Terry Blain, BBC Music Magazine