John Rutter
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Born in London, he was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener. He then studied music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was organ scholar and then director of music from 1975 to 1979. In 1981 he founded his own choir, the Cambridge Singers, which he conducts and with which he has made many recordings of sacred choral repertoire (including his own works), particularly under his own label Collegium Records. He still lives near Cambridge, but frequently conducts other choirs and orchestras around the world.
In 1980 he was made an honorary Fellow of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, and in 1988 a Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians. In 1996 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred a Lambeth Doctorate of Music upon him in recognition of his contribution to church music.
He also works as an arranger and editor, most notably (in his youth) of the extraordinarily successful Carols for Choirs anthology series in collaboration with Sir David Willcocks.
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20th Century Organ Music for Two, Vol. 1
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RUTTER: Requiem / Anthems
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Gloria: The Sacred Music of John Rutter
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Olde English Madrigals and Folk Songs at Ely Cathedral
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emaskye
for all the crap he gets, he would make a very good JRPG composer :P
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timisokan
His music is breathtaking...almost mysterious..
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panDerecki
kitschy, kitschy
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MarkAlanQuesti
John Rutter will go into history with the other great composers of choral works. His musicality rivals Brahm's choral works. When you sing them with a group they may bring tears to your eyes, they are so inspirational.
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smesser
can't think of anything worse.
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sinisha
Can't stop listening, amazing.....
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WattoTheJazzman
This guy is a mad dog! I played in a performance of his Gloria, and while we were ill-prepared, it was thoroughly enjoyable. Well I don't know about the audience. It was pretty hectic almost sight-reading tenor clef, and all those cool time signatures too...
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scepticism
Agnus Dei is noble
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YUEHCHOPIN
慢而且清楚
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lexithethespian
we're singing the Mass of the Children at my high school and I got the soprano solo! It is such an honour to be performing music written by such a brilliant man!
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cskarbek
I sang the Magnificat under his direction last year in New York. He is amazing.
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Omniczka
I'm looking for a beautiful song (written by John Rutter) called Paraiso Celeste. Anybody knows it? Please, help:)
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Dial-A-Ninja
Good Lord....Magnificat....YES
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