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Distant Land: The Orchestra Collection

11 reviews
John Rutter, Andrew Nicholson, ...

Decca, 2004

An Orchestral Extravaganza
John Rutter is one of today's leading composers and arrangers of music for chorus and orchestra. Some of his best works are featured in this instrumental album played with a lush flavor. But the highlight is a concerto arrangement of top Beatle's songs played in a symphonic mode featuring two pianos. You have the feel of the great master composers and the fun of listening to an unbelievable ...

Requiem & Magnificat/Rutter, Cambridge Singers

33 reviews
John Rutter, Cambridge Singers, ...

Collegium, 2000

Why I Like Tthis CD
This is an excellent CD. I had an ulterior motive for ordering it, however. I sing in a local Choral Society and we are performing it this coming weekend. I wanted the CD to follow along at home and get my part down a little better. I do very much enjoy John Rutter's music and the Cambridge Singers are very good.

Peace Like a River

12 reviews
Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Irving Berlin, ...

Mormon Tabernacle, 2004

Peace music from Heaven.
I was in tears when I listen to track 3 from ldS radio channel, I felt the peace from the lord in my soul again. I began to purchase the whole album. I will urge who always enjoy the MTC music a must buy to have.

Be Thou My Vision

7 reviews
John Rutter, City of London Sinfonia, ...

Collegium, 2004

A Listening Treat
What a delight to listen to this collection of pure Rutter ! The melodic sounds of the Cambridge Singers bring me such pleasure The sheer joyfulness of this music is to me a religious experience of such depth It is superb and will lift ones spirits instantly. highly recommended to all lovers of the English contemporary choral sound and scene,____ not to be missed

Faure: Requiem and other choral music

11 reviews
Stephen Varcoe, Gabriel Faure, ...

Collegium, 2000

Beautifully Haunting
After hearing this piece of work on two different occasions on the same day, I felt that I needed to have it. All the choices always make it difficult to choose, so I ended up buying this version. I am utterly amazed with this beautiful piece of music, by its the performers and just the cd in general.

John Rutter Collection

14 reviews
Rutter, Cambridge Singers, ...

Decca, 2002

John Rutter Collection
Absolutely beautiful selections performed perfectly!! I play it almost daily and repeatedly. I am familiar with several pieces from a performance perspective and enjoy the entire collection immensely.

Cambridge Singers - Lighten our Darkness (2 CD)

4 reviews
Louis Bourgeois, William Byrd, ...

Collegium, 2006

Marvelous
This is superb a capella singing. Each note, each syllable, is just right. John Rutter has a genius for writing and, as is the case here, performing religious choral music. The sound is gorgeous. Highest recommendation.

The Most Relaxing Classical Album In the World Ever, Volume II

13 reviews
Yehudi Menuhin, Jacqueline Du Pre, ...

EMI Classics, 2003

Most Relaxing Classical Music. II
Beautifully done, arranged, and selected. All are very good performances, and there are many lesser known but wonderful pieces such as the movement from Shostakovich's second piano concerto.

England, My England

2 reviews
Thomas Bullard, David van Asch, ...

EMI Classics, 2009

a voice teacher and early music fan
ENGLAND'S MOST FAMOUS CHURCH CHOIR PRESENTS AN EXCELLENT COMPILATION! This two CD two hour thirty-two minute recording was releaed by EMI Classics in July, 2009. It includes a wide variety of mostly sacred music that offers motets, ancient and modern, well-known psalms and favorite hymns and pieces made recognisable through their association with key English historical events. The majority ...

Sing Ye Heavens - Hymns for All Time

12 reviews
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter

Collegium, 2000

Another Rutter Keeper!
Rutter has won many fans throughout the world for his passionate, creative yet tasteful contributions to church music. Here is a hymn collection with several traditional choices along with Rutter originals. Several comprise Rutter's remakes, which is most cases are very diginified and not at all distractive to the thrust of the original. The orchestration is superb, and the Cambridge Singers of ...

Gloria: The Sacred Music of John Rutter

7 reviews
John Rutter, The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, ...

Collegium, 2005

Seamlessness
Absolutely incredible performance. No overdubbing here, friends. With Rutter at the helm, this group plays as if the piece never existed on paper, floating seamlessly through this many metered montage of ethereal aural bliss. Buy this now, strap on your Sennheiser's and prepare for a very serious voyage.

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

10 reviews
Gregorian Chant, William Byrd, ...

American Gramaphone, 1990

Light and shadows
Recorded in the Great Hall of University College School, London, the Cambridge Singers under the direction of John Rutter produced a true masterpiece in 'Brother Sun, Sister Moon' in 1988. The title derives from a famous prayer by St. Francis of Assisi, and is inspired by liturgical music from (or derivative of) the Middle Ages and Renaissance polyphony and Gregorian chant. The music is ...

John Rutter: The Sacred Flame; Europea

2 reviews
John Rutter, Nuova Musica, ...

Collegium, 2009

Argyablt the absolute best collection of its kind that I have ever heard!
John Rutter has always dominated the choral music field, mostly performances and recordings of his own compositions. Who knew that a colelction of early church music would be so captivating. The Cambrisge Singers are in fine voice as they navigate the performance practices of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. The new group that specializes in Early Music La Nuova Musica give ...

Consider the Lilies

14 reviews
John Rutter, Mack Wilberg

Mormon Tabernacle, 2003

Absolutely the BEST !
Our church choir sang a few of these songs which I loved, so I decided to order it. It is a very sweet, gentle, inspiring collection of music. Many times when you get a CD, you are fortunate to find 2-4 on there that you really like enough to play regularly. But on this one, every song is wonderful. This music is so spiritually uplifting and peaceful that you will want to play it regularly. ...

The Music of St. Paul's Cathedral

10 reviews
Timothy Jones, Hubert Parry, ...

Hyperion UK, 2000

Excellent Cathedral Organ & Choral
This selection of recordings by The Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral contains pieces representative of traditional Anglican musical liturgy. The technical aspects of this production on compact disk seem to be outstanding, but beware that the original recordings were in some cases less than stellar. Another reviewer points out that on some tracks the lyrics sung by the choir are overwhelmed by the ...

Messiah: The Complete Work

9 reviews
George Frideric Handel, John Rutter, ...

Hendrickson Worship/Martingale Music, 2007

The best recorded performance of Messiah I've heard
This is the newest recording of Messiah and it is wonderful. John Rutter and his band of musicians have captured the essence of this oratorio. Tempi are appropriate and not exessively fast. The balance between choir and orchestra is excellant and the soloists fit the piece. Technically, the recording is several levels above the ususal. I have posessed a number of recordings of Messiah over ...

Christmas Star

10 reviews
John Rutter, Cambridge Singers and Orchestra

Collegium, 1997

A Beautiful Christmas classic!
Rutter's settings of traditional Christmas carols give new life to some old favorites. The orchestrations are lovely, and the a capella selections will make you feel like you have the world's best English carolers standing on your doorstep. This CD includes many standard carols, and a few lesser-known ones, like the gorgeous "All My Heart This Night Rejoices," which in my opinion deserves to be ...

Bryn Terfel - Simple Gifts

13 reviews
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Stephen Sondheim, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

Top quality crossover classical music
Wales, the land of song, has produced many outstanding singers in a variety of musical styles. Bryn Terfel is doing much to continue that tradition by using his wonderful baritone voice to record a series of brilliant albums. Judging by his repertoire, Bryn enjoys several different, mainly traditional, musical styles.# On this album, Bryn mixes classical pieces with folk songs, show songs, ...

Hallelujah: 35 Great Sacred Choruses

3 reviews
David Thomas, Petteri Salomaa, ...

Sparrow, 2004

lovely works...
Excellent selections... my favorite is the Sanctus by Gounod. The music seems to build in the blood... the organ being the heartbeat. If you turn the volume up just right... a memorable experience. Beautiful!

The John Rutter Christmas Album

25 reviews
Franz Xaver Gruber, Stephen Varcoe, ...

Collegium, 2002

Good for Chorus Members!
This is an excellent Christmas album! John Rutter is truely a wonderful contemporary composer. As a member of a symphony chorus that sang several Rutter numbers this year, the album was a big help in learning some of his lesser known carols. Thanks!

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