The John Rutter Christmas Album

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
IThe John Rutter Christmas Album/I brings together most of the composer's Christmas songs and carols as well as several of his festive choral arrangements, including a rousing "Joy to the World" and the energetic "I saw three ships". Most of the 23 tracks have been taken from extant discs on Rutter's Collegium label although two, "Dormi, Jesu" and "Sans Day carol", were recorded especially for this release.p Rutter's first two published compositions, written while he was still a teenager, were Christmas pieces for choir, namely the glorious "Nativity Carol" and the infectious "Shepherd's Pipe Carol". Although very different in character, these two carols (for which Rutter also wrote the test) display the composer's sense of joy and wonder at the Christmas story. More than 30 years later, those sentiments are still there in pieces such as the melting "Dormi, Jesu", commissioned by King's College, Cambridge for the 1999 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.p Under the direction of the composer, the youthful voices of the Cambridge Singers are on sparkling form, as are the City of London Sinfonia and vocal soloists Gerald Finley and Stephen Varcoe. This album deserves to be played over and over--and not just at Christmas. --IRebecca Agnew/I

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-02-16 rating:
How to have a beautiful Christmas
This CD made our Christmas - and that takes some doing! If you like show tunes, choral music generally, and you believe there is something magical about carols, then buy this. Beautifully sung and endlessly innovative, next year I am buying it in bulk as Christmas presents.

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review by: date: 2009-02-15 rating:
The essence of Christmas
I just loved this. Having heard various John Rutter carols on the radio I knew I had to have this cd. It will now form part of Christmas forever.

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review by: date: 2009-02-06 rating:
Excellent
Some lovely and unusual pieces - I could happily listen to it all year round.

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review by: John Hinde date: 2008-12-06 rating:
Christmas Magic
This is the first time I have submitted a review, but those loving John Rutter's own carols and arrangements should know that this is a superb, almost certainly the best, compilation. It includes the beautiful and ever popular Nativity Carol and Shepherd's Pipe Carol which he wrote in his teens and after that most of the carols he has composed. The accompanying notes include all the words, which is such a help, and give information about when and for whom or what occasion each carol came to be written. And most importantly they were recorded when John Rutter had put together a superb singing group, The Cambridge Singers. It doesn't get any better than this.


review by: stanwoods3 date: 2008-03-07 rating:
Christmas Joy
I thought this CD had got lost in our recent house move and was delighted when it turned up in one the last boxes to be opened. I immediately rushed to listen again even though it is early March and am once again entranced by the warmth and beauty of the music and the singing. You really can play this CD anytime in the year and that is what I am doing now! If you buy it you will not be disappointed!

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