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Rutter - Requiem (2003) Timothy Brown, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

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Rutter - Requiem (2003) Timothy Brown, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

John Rutter - Requiem & other sacred music (2003)
Timothy Brown - Choir of Clare College, Cambridge - City of London Sinfonia
Choral | EAC | FLAC+log+cue | booklet scans | Naxos 8.557131 | 1CD | 241 MB

Anyone who has ever sung the Rutter `Requiem' gets it in their bones, and it stays there. This may not be the most profound Requiem ever composed, but it is certainly one of the most beautiful. There is a sort of symmetry with the appearance of this performance of the Requiem on Naxos. First, it is the version, available from the time of its original composition but never before recorded, for reduced forces; it uses organ and six instrumentalists (flute, oboe, cello, harp, timpani, percussion) as opposed to the more familiar version for medium-sized orchestra. Second, it is performed by musicians from Rutter's Cambridge alma mater, Clare College, where he read music as an undergraduate and where he was director of music in the late 1970s. And, finally, it has a certain resonance with what is probably Rutter's own most famous recording of music not his own, namely that of the Fauré Requiem. Rutter made an arrangement from the manuscript of the earlier 1893 version that Fauré made for reduced forces and he recorded that version for the first time. That recording changed our ideas about the Fauré; up to then we had known only the much larger version for full orchestra and chorus that he (or perhaps his student Roger-Ducasse) made for a performance in 1900. Rutter himself was producer of the present recording of his Requiem and therefore it obviously has his stamp of approval.

A comparison with the 1986 recording Rutter made with the Cambridge Singers and the London Sinfonia shows that the present performance is more delicate, more serene, and with even clearer diction than the earlier version. The organ fills in much of what was previously played by the orchestra, and it is played sensitively and with suitable restraint here by Nicholas Rimmer, an organ scholar at Clare College, Cambridge. The Clare College choir, unlike other Cambridge college choirs, has female sopranos, not boy trebles. The soprano soloist is Elin Manahan Thomas, and she is superb; in the Lux aeterna she surpasses Rutter's soloist in the ethereal beauty of her final ascending solo line. The playing of the cellist, Sue Dorey, in the 'Out of the Deep' section is eloquent.

The disc also contains two `Blessings for Choir and Organ' written specifically for Clare College: `Go forth into the world in peace' and `A Clare Benediction,' each achingly beautiful. It is touching to recall that Rutter's son Christopher sang these two pieces during the one year he was a singer in this choir, just before his death in a motor vehicle accident.

Also included are an Advent anthem, `Arise, shine,' set to the words of Isaiah 60, `Come down, O Love divine' set to an English translation of a 13th-century Latin text, and most fittingly, `Musica Dei donum optimi,' (`Music, the gift of the supreme God') which extols the power of music to make `savage souls gentle' and uplift `sad minds,' a transcendently lovely setting for choir and solo flute.

And finally, there are two pieces for organ alone, `Toccata in seven', a lively piece in 7/8 time and unusually, a duet for organ four-hands (and four-feet - talk about a traffic jam!) `Variations on an Easter Theme.'

This disc is lovely from start to finish and is enthusiastically recommended to choristers, organists, choir directors and, most of all, music lovers of all stripes. – Scott Morrison

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Timothy Brown, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge / Rutter - Requiem and other sacred music

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Tracklist
1. Requiem - Requiem Aeternam
2. Requiem - Out of the Deep
3. Requiem - Pie Jesu
4. Requiem - Sanctus
5. Requiem - Agnus Dei
6. Requiem - The Lord is My Shepherd
7. Requiem - Lux Aeterna
8. Advent Anthem - Arise, Shine
9. Anthem for Double Choir - Come Down, O Love Divine
10. Anthem for Choir and Flute - Musica Dei Donum
11. Two Blessings - A Clare Benediction
12. Two Blessings - Go Forth Into The World In Peace
13. Two Organ Pieces - Toccata in 7
14. Two Organ Pieces - Variations on an Easter Theme