Rutter: Gloria & Other Sacred Music

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This superb disc contains a balanced cross- section of Rutter's sacred choral music, spanning over a quarter century and featuring several first recordings. Rutter's stylistic hallmarks are all... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: CDA67259
Label: Hyperion
Length: 77 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

August 2001

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Rutter: Gloria

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Polyphony, The Wallace Collection
Stephen Layton

I. Gloria in excelsis Deo: Allegro vivace

Track length4:35

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II. Domine Deus, rex caelestis: Andante

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III. Quoniam tu solus sanctus: Vivace e ritmico

Track length5:25

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Rutter: Come down, O love divine

Work length6:45

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Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace

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City of London Sinfonia, Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: To everything there is a season

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City of London Sinfonia, Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: I my Best-Beloved's am

Work length6:43

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Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: Praise the Lord, O my soul

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Polyphony, The Wallace Collection
Stephen Layton

Rutter: I will lift up mine eyes

Work length7:07

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City of London Sinfonia, Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: As the bridegroom to his chosen

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City of London Sinfonia, Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: A Clare Benediction

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Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: The Lord is my light and my salvation

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City of London Sinfonia, Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: Go forth into the world

Work length2:26

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City of London Sinfonia, Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: Thy perfect love

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City of London Sinfonia, Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Rutter: Te Deum

Work length7:16

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Polyphony, The Wallace Collection
Stephen Layton

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After the huge success of their recording of Rutter's Requiem (featured in last year's Top 20), Polyphony, conducted by Stephen Layton, turn their attention to another popular work of John RutterGloria. Also included on the disc are some first-recordings including the delightful unaccompanied works A Clare Benediction (written for Clare College, Cambridge) and Come down, O Love Divinea double-choir piece premiered by the combined choirs of Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral in Westminster Abbey in 1998. The City of London Sinfonia (involved in numerous recordings of Rutter's work) are joined by the fine brass ensemble, The Wallace Collection.

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2010

This superb disc contains a balanced cross- section of Rutter's sacred choral music, spanning over a quarter century and featuring several first recordings. Rutter's stylistic hallmarks are all here: an unfailing knack to get to the root of the text, exquisitely balanced vocal writing, melting harmonies, intensely sweet turns of phrase, short ecstatic climaxes, but also a willingness to be astringent, and rhythmically powerful. There are nods to pageantry, for example in the conclusion of the Gloria with its Waltonian swagger, some decliously echt Sullivan at the end of the Te Deum and, in I my Best-beloved's am, an occasional vision of the neo-Byzantine soundworld of his fellow Highgate School pupil, John Tavener.
The artistry of the 25 full-bodied voices of Polyphony is beyond reproach, only suffering a deficit in sheer volume when pitted against the full fury of The Wallace Collection. Sumptuously recorded, all the forces involved play to perfection. Greatly enjoyable.

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