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5.0 out of 5 stars A glorious piece, Dec 19 2005

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FrKurt Messick "FrKurt Messick" (Bloomington, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Requiem (Audio CD)

--Music--
Rutter's Requiem was written in 1985. In Catholic liturgy, a requiem is a Mass for the Dead, and as such involves strong tones both of mourning and loss as well as elements of hope and eternal life as reflected in Christian belief. Rutter states that, like Brahms and Faure, there are elements that depart from the traditional lines of a Catholic requiem. Rutter takes some of the texts from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Both the first and second movements, Requiem aeternam and 'Out of the Deep', set very dark, low, sombre tones. The use of strings at the beginning of 'Out of the Deep' is very effective, together with funeral-dirge like vocals. This contrasts greatly with the Pie Jesu, light and spiritual. The Sanctus is almost playful in aspect, and the Agnus Dei and Lux aeterna draw the listener higher and higher into the fullness of expectation of God's presence.

--John Rutter--
Rutter was born in London and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. This was where his career as a composer, arranger and conductor began. His early work was with groups at King's College Chapel at Cambridge as well as the Bath Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked for the BBC providing music for educational series such as 'The Archaeology of the Bible Lands', until in 1979 he began forming the Cambridge Singers, and has continued a remarkable career of performance and recording as their director ever since.

This recording is produced by Rutter, but is performed by the London Sinfonia, a group that he has worked with but is not the usual Cambridge Singers. This performance compares favourably with Rutter's own group, with areas in which there is greater subtlety and depth.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An different approach to the music of requiem!!!, Oct 18 2003

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Steven Yu (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Requiem (Audio CD)

Most of the requiem composer took dramatic of the terror in the jugement days, however some of composer took the peaceful approach. And rutter is one of them.

This version is quite different compare to the orchestral version conductor by the composer himself. In this version the instrument is limit to a chamber music style, and the organ music in the background is quite similiar to the setting of faure's requiem.

I would personally recommend this version to the real requiem lover, for the other people who desire the music that you can blow off with terror, I sugest you look in to Verdi, and Berlioz!!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Nap Champion!, Oct 7 2003

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Robert Lewis (Cleveland, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Requiem (Audio CD)

Ahhh Rutter! Not since Gorecki has such a nap been had! I took my first nap to this disc in the confines of the Passat at lunch one day. The intoning opening lulled me right into slumberland and I didn't look back. For a glorious hour I slumbered as the very able Clare College Choir sang their way through Rutter's very popular Requiem and a selection of other choral works. Imagine my surprise, then, as a couple of organ (!) solo works closed out the disc! The organ is third in the list of enemies to the napper, closely behind the accordion and bagpipes, both fortunately, in short supply in the standard classical cannon.

The nap was so satisfying that I repeated the experience in the confines of the home listening room, "The Womb," just one day later. I smartly programmed the player to skip the organ tracks, and settled in for another blissful slumber. Ahh, Rutter, you have yet to disappoint! With such honest, intense performances as caputured here, we nappers are destined for long restful periods. Thank you, and thank you Naxos.

Robert Lewis

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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Rutter's Collegium label recording
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