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	• Requiem & Magnificat/Rutter, Cambridge Singers John Rutter, Cambridge Singers, ... Collegium, 2000 average customer review:based on 31 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Love this music

Received as promised and am enjoying listening to it very much. Music doesn't get much better than this. Be sure to read the lyrics in English on the inserts for deeper understanding of the piece.

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.

Requiem/Cambridge singers

Beautiful music. I first heard this played on public radio and put a lot of effort into tracking down the recording. The music and performance are stunningly beautiful and parts of it move me to tears. The one big problem that detracts is the very inconsistent decibel level throughout that requires frequent adjustments of the volume control.

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Magnificent Magnificat

Our choral society members have found this recording a blessed adjunct to the song learning CDs for private practice. What a heavenly faithful recording, and conducted by the master himself.

Gorgeous music

This is a wonderfully nuanced & beautiful recording of this work. I don't understand why no one mentions the Lux Aeterna -- Donna Deam's rendering of the solo sounds purely angelic.

Two of John Rutter's most popular large-scale choral works are paired in this bargain-priced CD. Requiem, his first composition written without being commissioned, is a convincing affirmation of Christian doctrine on death and eternal life. It is also a substantial and sincere work that strives to be widely appealing while preserving a spiritual context centered on themes of light and consolation. Highlights include "Out of the Deep," its modal tune and harmonies giving it the flavor of a spiritual, and the wonderfully gentle and restful 23rd Psalm. Rutter personalizes his Requiem by adding movements not traditionally part of the Requiem Mass--passages from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, for instance--and this proves to be an effective strategy. Rutter's own, first-class Cambridge Singers are superb, as usual, and soloist Caroline Ashton steals the show with her heavenly Pie Jesu. The Magnificat shows Rutter at his most engaging, thoughtful, and adept. His usual canny sense of tunefulness and rhythmic rightness, flavored with splashes of pop harmony, accomplish his purpose in the Magnificat: to depict Mary's prayer as a celebratory occasion rather than a somber one. --David Vernier

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Tracks
Requiem for chorus & orchestra: Requiem Aeternam | Requiem for chorus & orchestra: Out Of The Deep | Requiem for chorus & orchestra: Pie Jesu | Requiem for chorus & orchestra: Sanctus | Requiem for chorus & orchestra: Agnus Dei | Requiem for chorus & orchestra: The Lord Is My Shepherd | Requiem for chorus & orchestra: Lux Aeterna | Magnificat for soprano, chorus & orchestra: Magnificat anima mea | Magnificat for soprano, chorus & orchestra: Of a Rose, a lovely Rose | Magnificat for soprano, chorus & orchestra: Quia fecit mihi magna | Magnificat for soprano, chorus & orchestra: Et misericordia | Magnificat for soprano, chorus & orchestra: Fecit potentiam | Magnificat for soprano, chorus & orchestra: Esurientes | Magnificat for soprano, chorus & orchestra: Gloria Patri

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