Naxos
Rutter: Requiem / Choir Of Clare College Cambridge
$13.99
Details
- Composer
- RUTTER
- Artist
- Ka, Nicholas, Jones, Cambridge, Collon, Timothy, City Of London Sinfonia, Brown
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Naxos
- Released
- Apr 01, 2003
- Catalog #
- 8557130
- UPC
- 747313213023
About
John Rutter's own recording of his beloved Requiem--with his Cambridge Singers on Collegium--already has been reissued on a CD that includes the Magnificat. That performance, in its setting for choir and orchestra, remains the Requiem of choice, although this new version--with Rutter as recording producer--offers a first-rate rendition of the composer's alternative chamber arrangement of the Requiem along with several rarely-heard--or never-before-recorded--choral and organ works. The Clare College Choir, with whom Rutter has a history both during his days as a music student and later as the choir's director, gives the kind of technically solid and interpretively meaningful performance that we would expect, considering the composer's hands-on involvement and well-known concern for accuracy, both musical and sonic. Like Caroline Ashton on Rutter's Collegium disc, Clare's Elin Manahan Thomas delivers the soprano solos with a clear, ringing, effortlessly natural quality, and the choir is a model of responsiveness and sensitivity in phrasing and dynamics, preserving ideal balance across registers and among vocal sections.
The reason Rutter fans will have to have this is for the premieres and for the handful of rarely-heard organ works--and any listeners who believe this composer to be rather predictable and one-sided in style will find numerous surprises to jar their impressions. Two of the premieres--the anthems Arise, shine and Come down, O Love divine--show a more complex Rutter, whose harmonic style and concept of textual development takes us into richer and far more intellectually/musically challenging territory than we're used to, a nod both to Howells and to Britten. The organ pieces--both for solo (Toccata in seven) and duet (Variations on an Easter theme)--show a thorough command of the idiom and are laced with Rutter's usual catchy rhythms and inventive melodic twists. One of the highlights is the anthem for choir and flute, Musica Dei domum, with its beautiful instrumental solo and organlike choral utterances. The sound, from Berkshire, England's Douai Abbey, provides ideal space and resonance for these eminently singable--and listenable--pieces, works that belong in the collection of every true lover of choral music. [4/26/2003]
--David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com
Tracklist 14 tracks
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1 Requiem aeternam 05:34
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Requiem aeternam
- Duration
- 05:34
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Performer
- Elin Manahan Thomas
- Ensemble
- The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor
- Timothy Brown
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2 Out of the deep 06:06
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Out of the deep
- Duration
- 06:06
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Performer
- Elin Manahan Thomas
- Ensemble
- The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor
- Timothy Brown
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3 Pie Jesu 03:36
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Pie Jesu
- Duration
- 03:36
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Performer
- Elin Manahan Thomas
- Ensemble
- The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor
- Timothy Brown
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4 Sanctus 02:04
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Sanctus
- Duration
- 02:04
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Performer
- Elin Manahan Thomas
- Ensemble
- The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor
- Timothy Brown
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5 Agnus Dei 05:22
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Agnus Dei
- Duration
- 05:22
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Performer
- Elin Manahan Thomas
- Ensemble
- The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor
- Timothy Brown
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6 The Lord is my shepherd 05:03
- Track
- 6
- Title
- The Lord is my shepherd
- Duration
- 05:03
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Performer
- Elin Manahan Thomas
- Ensemble
- The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor
- Timothy Brown
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7 Lux aeterna 06:39
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Lux aeterna
- Duration
- 06:39
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Performer
- Elin Manahan Thomas
- Ensemble
- The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor
- Timothy Brown
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8 Advent Anthem for choir and organ: Arise, shine 04:40
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Advent Anthem for choir and organ: Arise, shine
- Duration
- 04:40
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Performer
- Nicholas Rimmer
- Ensemble
- The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor
- Timothy Brown
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9 Anthem for double choir: Come down, O Love divine 06:51
- Track
- 9
- Title
- Anthem for double choir: Come down, O Love divine
- Duration
- 06:51
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Ensemble
- The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor
- Timothy Brown
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10 Anthem for choir and flute: Musica Dei donum 05:50
- Track
- 10
- Title
- Anthem for choir and flute: Musica Dei donum
- Duration
- 05:50
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Performer
- Karen Jones
- Ensemble
- The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor
- Timothy Brown
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11 A Clare Benediction 03:30
- Track
- 11
- Title
- A Clare Benediction
- Duration
- 03:30
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Performer
- Nicholas Rimmer
- Ensemble
- The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor
- Timothy Brown
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12 Go forth into the world in peace 02:42
- Track
- 12
- Title
- Go forth into the world in peace
- Duration
- 02:42
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Performer
- Nicholas Rimmer
- Ensemble
- The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia
- Conductor
- Timothy Brown
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13 Toccata in 7 02:06
- Track
- 13
- Title
- Toccata in 7
- Duration
- 02:06
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Performer
- Nicholas Collon, Nicholas Rimmer
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14 Variations on an Easter theme 07:45
- Track
- 14
- Title
- Variations on an Easter theme
- Duration
- 07:45
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Performer
- Nicholas Collon, Nicholas Rimmer