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JOHN RUTTER
Rutter: A Christmas Festival The Cambridge Singers / Directed by John Rutter with Melanie Marshall, Clara Sanabras & Elin Manahan Thomas [ Collegium / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] No living composer has come to be more closely associated with Christmas than John Rutter: for more than thirty years, his carols and other seasonal choral music have been an indispensable feature of Christmas celebrations worldwide. |
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JOHN RUTTER
The John Rutter Christmas Album The Cambridge Singers / Directed by John Rutter with Stephen Varcoe, baritone [ Collegium / CD - released 28/Oct/2002 ] This album gathers together most of the carols John Rutter has composed over the years, plus a sprinkling of arrangements of traditional carols, grouped to form a program which narrates, reflects upon, and celebrates the Christmas story. |
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JOHN RUTTER
Fancies The Cambridge Singers / John Rutter (director) [ Collegium / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] "Four entirely delightful compositions" (Digital Audio) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Lighten our Darkness: Music for the close of day, including the Office of Compline The Cambridge Singers / John Rutter (director) [ Collegium Records / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2006 ] "This is a lovingly performed and deeply satisfying pair of discs that should be self-recommending to all lovers of the music of the English church." (MusicWeb Oct 2006) |
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RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Sea Change The Cambridge Singers / John Rutter (director) [ Collegium SACD / SACD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - "If you like choral music, this disk is highly recommended." (AudAud.com) |
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The Cambridge Singers / John Rutter (director)
Sing, ye Heavens - Hymns for all time [ Collegium / CD - released 8/Nov/2000 ] New recordings of your favourite Hymns by the wonderful Cambridge-Singers |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Banquet of Voices: Music for multiple choirs The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter [ CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] John Rutter writes... "Revisiting this 1993 Cambridge Singers recording, I realize I should never have withdrawn it from the Collegium catalogue and all because of an obscure musicological question in my mind over a Gregorian chant, long since... |
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STANFORD / HOWELLS
Stanford and Howells: Remembered Cambridge Singers, John Rutter, Wayne Marshall (organ) [ Collegium / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] This newly-remastered 2-CD set of the Cambridge Singers' 1992 Stanford and Howells recording has been expanded from its original 1-CD format, with almost twenty minutes of previously unreleased material including Stanford's resplendent Latin... |
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BACH / MONTEVERDI / GESUALDO / VICTORIA / GABRIELI / etc
The Sacred Flame: European Sacred Music of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras The Cambridge Singers / La Nuova Musica / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "A new recording by John Rutter and his Cambridge Singers is always welcome...You'll be happy with the performances, which throughout this recording are at the high level we always expect from this choir and director." (10/10 ClassicsToday.com) |
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JOHN RUTTER
A Song in Season: Sacred Music of John Rutter The Cambridge Singers / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Directed by John Rutter with John Birch (organ) [ Collegium / CD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] A major collection of new choral music by John Rutter, featuring a host of previously unrecorded works in glittering performances by the Cambridge Singers and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. |
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JOHN RUTTER
Be thou my vision The Cambridge Singers / The City of London Sinfonia / John Rutter, director [ Collegium / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] Sacred music by John Rutter. |
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JOHN RUTTER
Gloria: The Sacred Music of John Rutter The Cambridge Singers / The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble / The City of London Sinfonia / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] "This is a jewel of a record" (Gramophone) |
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JOHN RUTTER
Rutter: The Gift of Life and seven sacred pieces The Cambridge Singers / The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 20/Oct/2015 ] "The composer has worked for years with the Cambridge Singers and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and their ease and familiarity here makes for a beautifully performed and recorded listen." (ClassicFM) |
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JOHN RUTTER
The Sprig of Thyme: A cycle of folk song settings for mixed choir The Cambridge Singers with members of the City of London Sinfonia / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] This is a lovely disc; one to head my list of Christmas presents for musical friends. (Gramophone) |
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TRADITIONAL
The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album The Cambridge Singers with Stephen Varcoe (baritone); The City of London Sinfonia; directed by John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] "Rutter has become the musical equivalent of Dickens, synonymous with the season of Christmas." Guardian |
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KALEVI AHO
Theremin Concerto & Horn Concerto Carolina Eyck (theremin), Annu Salminen (horn) / Lapland Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds [ BIS / CD - released 8/Jul/2014 ] The wide range of sounds and effects available on the theremin are used by Aho to depict seasonal events such as the first frost, the melting of the ice and the midnight sun |
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STEPHEN HARTKE
Hartke: The Greater Good (complete opera) Caroline Worra / John de Haan / Christine Abraham / Andrew Wentzel / Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra / Stewart Robertson [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Jul/2007 ] "Having amply demonstrated his ingenious skills and audacious imagination as a composer of symphonic and chamber works, Mr. Hartke emerges in this engaging live recording as an opera composer to reckon with." New York Times |
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J.S. BACH
Mass in B minor BWV232 Catherine Dubose, John Mark Ainsley, James Bowman / The Sixteen. Christophers [ Coro / 2 CD - released 12/Sep/2006 ] "a fresh direct performance, marked with well-chosen speeds, and bright choral singing." - Penguin Stereo guide |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Violin Concertos Cecilia Bernardini (violin), Huw Daniel (violin), Alfredo Bernardini (oboe) / Dunedin Consort, John Butt [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "This is as good a way as any to get to know these wonderful concertos and a worthy successor to John Butt's earlier recordings of Bach with the Dunedin Consort." (MusicWeb March 2016) |
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HARUKI MURAKAMI
Norwegian Wood John Chancer [ Naxos Audiobooks / 11 CD - released 27/Feb/2006 ] Like Proust's 'petite Madeleine' Toru Watanabe's memories of his student years, the girls, the tensions and the aspirations are jerked back into life by hearing the Beatles song 'Norwegian Wood' in an MOR version in an airplane. His first love.... |