Clare College Compiles Rutter "The Christmas Edition" for Composer's 80th Birthday

 

Clare College Compiles Rutter "The Christmas Edition" for Composer's 80th Birthday

John Rutter is one of the most iconic figures of English choral music today, a symbol of its vitality and high standards. Graham Ross brings together the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge (the celebrated choral institution that the composer himself directed in the mid-1970s) and The Dmitri Ensemble to pay homage to this great gentleman of modern musical history with a wide range of his works, some of them recorded here for the very first time.

SIR JOHN RUTTER (b. 1945) A Clare College Celebration · A Clare Benediction (3'18) · Ave Maria (2'59) · The Lord bless you and keep you (Five Orchestral Meditations, No.5) (2'36) · A Ukrainian Prayer (a cappella) (3'11) · A Gaelic Blessing (1'46) Bard's Eye View · I. O mistress mine (1'54) · II. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (3'06) · III. Sigh no more, ladies (1'54) · Nativity Carol (4'20) · Christ is the morning star (4'29)

Nativity Carol (4'20)

Christ is the morning star (4'29)

Sheperd's Pipe Carol (2'58)

Carol of the magi (4'52)

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (3'02)

Candelight Carol (4'00)>

Mary's Lullaby (3'19)

What sweeter music (4'35) 

The Gift of Life (version with chamber ensemble) · 

I. O all ye works of the Lord (7'40) · 

II. The tree of life (6'14) · 

III. Hymn to the Creator of Light (7'08) · 

IV. O Lord, how manifold are thy works (7'21) · 

V. The gift of each day (3'20) · 

VI. Believe in life (5'29)

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