There Is Sweet Music / Rutter, The Cambridge Singers

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Label
Collegium Records
Release Date
January 1, 2002
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      STANFORD DELIUS ELGAR WILLI
    • PERFORMER
      Rutter, Cambridge Singers
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 01, 2002
    • UPC
      040888050520
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CSCD505
    • LABEL
      Collegium Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Secular
    Works ⌄

    1. 8 Partsongs, Op. 119: No. 3: The blue bird

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    2. To be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water (I)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    3. To be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water (II)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Performer: Mark Padmore

      Conductor: John Rutter

    4. 4 Choral Songs, Op. 53: No. 1: There is sweet music

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    5. My love dwelt in a Northern land, Op. 18, No. 3

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    6. Full fathom five

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    7. The cloud-capp'd towers

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    8. Over hill, over dale

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    9. The sailor and young Nancy

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    10. Brigg Fair

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Performer: Philip Sheffield

      Conductor: John Rutter

    11. Londonderry Air

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    12. The three ravens

      Composer: Edward T Chapman

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Performer: Nicholas Sears

      Conductor: John Rutter

    13. My sweetheart's like Venus

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    14. The oak and the ash

      Composer: Edward C. Bairstow

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    15. Quick! we have but a second

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    16. To daffodils

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    17. The succession of the four sweet months

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    18. Marsh flowers

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    19. The evening primrose

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter

    20. Ballad of green broom

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

      Conductor: John Rutter



If you're a choral music fan and you somehow managed to miss this classic the first time around, well now's your chance to grab it--and you must--in its newly reissued version, now at mid-price. The program's opening track--Stanford's exquisite impressionistic masterpiece, The Blue Bird--alone is worth any price, and from there the program never falters, in musical quality or choral artistry. If there are other highlights, they might be the Vaughan Williams Shakespeare Songs, Elgar's My love dwelt in a Northern land, or the difficult and powerfully expressive Five Flower Songs of Benjamin Britten. And then there's the wonderful little encore piece, Stanford's setting of the Irish air Quick! we have but a second, which actually is 41 seconds of virtuoso vocal ensemble magic. John Rutter and his Cambridge Singers made many memorable, and in many cases inimitable recordings--and this is one that belongs in every collection, a bright and beautiful celebration of some of the world's finest choral music, sung the way it should be sung. [12/14/2002] --David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com