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John Rutter

February 15, 2024

For the American football coach, see John Rutter (American football).

John Milford Rutter CBE (born 24 September 1945) is an English composer, conductor, editor, arranger, and record producer, mainly of choral music.

John Rutter

CBE
Born
John Milford Rutter

(1945-09-24) 24 September 1945 (age 78)
London, England
Alma materClare College, Cambridge
Occupations
  • Composer
  • conductor
Known forFounding the Cambridge Singers
Websitejohnrutter.com

Biography edit

Born on 24 September 1945[1] in London, the son of an industrial chemist and his wife, Rutter grew up living over the Globe pub on London's Marylebone Road.[2] He was educated at Highgate School, where fellow pupils included John Tavener, Howard Shelley, Brian Chapple and Nicholas Snowman.[3] As a chorister there, Rutter took part in the first (1963) recording of Britten's War Requiem under the composer's baton.[4] He thence read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the choir. Whilst an undergraduate, he had his first compositions published, including the "Shepherd's Pipe Carol".[4] He served as director of music at Clare College from 1975 to 1979, and led the choir to international prominence.

In 1981, Rutter founded his own choir, the Cambridge Singers, which he conducts, and with which he has made many recordings of sacred choral repertoire (including his own works), particularly under his own label Collegium Records. He resides at Hemingford Abbots in Cambridgeshire, and frequently conducts many choirs and orchestras around the world.

From 1985 to 1992, Rutter suffered severely from myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, or chronic fatigue syndrome), which restricted his output; after 1985, he stopped writing music on commission, as he was unable to guarantee meeting deadlines.[5]

Rutter also works as an arranger and editor. As a young man, he collaborated with Sir David Willcocks on five volumes of the extraordinarily successful Carols for Choirs anthology series.

He was inducted as a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity in 1985.[6][7] Rutter is also a Vice-President of the Joyful Company of Singers, President of The Bach Choir, and President of the Association of British Choral Directors (ABCD).[8]

Compositions edit

Rutter's compositions are chiefly choral, and include Christmas carols, anthems and extended works such as the Gloria, the Requiem and the Magnificat.

The world premiere of Rutter's Requiem (1985), and of his authoritative edition of Fauré's Requiem, took place with the Fox Valley Festival Chorus, in Illinois. In 2002, his setting of Psalm 150, commissioned for the Queen's Golden Jubilee, was performed at the Jubilee thanksgiving service in St Paul's Cathedral, London. Similarly, he was commissioned to write a new anthem, "This is the day", for the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011, performed at Westminster Abbey during the service.[9]

Rutter's work is published by Oxford University Press. It has been recorded by many choirs, but he conducts his own recordings principally on his label Collegium Records.

The first two choral items sung at the Platinum Jubilee National Service of Thanksgiving in June 2022 were arrangements by Rutter,[10] as were no fewer than six items performed at the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla.[11]

Influences edit

Rutter's music is eclectic, showing the influences of the French and English choral traditions of the early twentieth century as well as of light music and American classic songwriting. Almost every choral anthem and hymn that he writes[citation needed] has a subsequent orchestral accompaniment in addition to the standard piano/organ accompaniment, using various different instrumentations such as strings only, strings and woodwinds or full orchestra with brass and percussion. Many of his works have also been arranged for concert band with optional chorus.[12]

Despite composing and conducting much religious music, Rutter told the US television programme 60 Minutes in 2003 that he was not a particularly religious man, yet still deeply spiritual and inspired by the spirituality of sacred verses and prayers.[13][14] The main topics considered in the 60 Minutes programme, which was broadcast a week before Christmas 2003, were Rutter's popularity with choral groups in the United States, Britain, and other parts of the world, and his composition Mass of the Children (written after the sudden death of his son Christopher while a student at Clare College, Cambridge, where Rutter himself had studied).

In a 2009 interview, Rutter discussed his understanding of "genius" and its unique ability to transform lives—whether that genius is communicated in the form of music or other media. He likened the purity of music to that of mathematics and connected the two with a reference to the discovery made by the early Greeks that frequencies of harmonic pitches are related by whole-number ratios.[2]

Reception edit

Rutter's music is very popular, particularly in the US.[13][15] Many hold him in high regard in the UK, as illustrated by the following quotation from a review in the London Evening Standard (25 September 2005): "For the infectiousness of his melodic invention and consummate craftsmanship, Rutter has few peers." Sue Lawley referred to Rutter as "the most celebrated and successful composer of carols alive today"[16] and Sean Rafferty heralded Rutter as "a creator of not just carols, but wonderfully great things for the human voice."[17] One British composer, David Arditti, did not regard him as a sufficiently "serious" composer, saying that Rutter is "hard to take seriously, because of the way in which his sheer technical facility or versatility leads to a superficial, unstable crossover style which is neither quite classical nor pop, and which tends towards mawkish sentimentality in his sugarily-harmonised and orchestrated melodies."[18] The Guardian remarked that "it is as a writer of carols that he has really made his mark ... His larger-scale works – particularly the Gloria (1974), Requiem (1985) and Magnificat (1990) – are also well established in the choral repertoire."[19] David Willcocks considered Rutter "the most gifted composer of his generation."[20]

Recognition edit

In 1980 Rutter was made an honorary fellow of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, and in 1988 he became a fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians. In 1996 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred a Lambeth Doctorate of Music upon him in recognition of his contribution to church music.

Rutter was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours, for services to music.[21]

In 2008 he also became an honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple while playing a significant role in the 2008 Temple Festival.

In 2023 Rutter became a Fellow of The Ivors Academy. Signified by the presentation of an Ivor Novello Award, Fellowship is also a position within the Academy's members and is the highest honour bestowed by the association of music creators. [22]

List of compositions and arrangements edit

Extended compositions edit

Carols edit

  • "All Bells in Paradise" (original composition)
  • "Angels' Carol" (original composition)
  • "Angel Tidings" (arrangement)
  • "Born on Earth" (arrangement)
  • "Candlelight Carol" (original composition)
  • "Carol of the Children" (original composition)
  • "Carol of the Magi" (original composition)
  • "Cantique de Noël" (arrangement)
  • "Child in a Manger" (arrangement of Gaelic melody 'Bunessan', original words)
  • "Christ our Emmanuel" (original composition)
  • "Christmas Bells" (arrangement of the Norwegian folk song "Pal Pa Haugen", with new Christmas lyrics by Rutter)
  • "Christmas Lullaby"
  • "Christmas Night" (arrangement, the title song on the Cambridge Singers's first album)
  • "Deck the Hall" (arrangement)
  • "The Donkey Carol" (not to be confused with the song "The Friendly Beasts" arranged by John Davis that also goes by the nickname Donkey Carol)
  • "Dormi Jesu"
  • "Es Ist Ein’ Ros’ Entsprungen" (original composition)
  • "I Sing of a Maiden" (original composition)
  • "I Wish You Christmas"
  • "Jesus Child"
  • "Joseph’s Carol" (original composition)
  • "Joy to the World" (arrangement)
  • "Love Came Down at Christmas" (arrangement)
  • "Mary's Lullaby"
  • "Nativity Carol" (1st line: "Born in a Stable so Bare"; original composition)
  • "Personent hodie" (arrangement)
  • "Hajej, nynej, Ježíšku" (arrangement and translation of Czech carol called "Hajej, nynej, Ježíšku")
  • "Rejoice and Be Merry"
  • "Shepherd's Pipe Carol"
  • "Silent Night" (arrangement)
  • "Star Carol"
  • "Suzi's Carol" (original composition)
  • "There is a Flower" (original composition)
  • "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (arrangement)
  • "The Very Best Time of Year"
  • "Up Good Christen Folk"
  • "We Will"
  • "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" (arrangement)
  • "Wexford Carol" (arrangement)
  • "Was I the lamb?" Setting of words by Marc Bratcher to celebrate the Chaplain's 20 years of service as Chaplain of Merton College.
  • "What Sweeter Music"
  • "Wild Wood Carol"

Other anthems edit

Choral works edit

  • Three Carols from Carols for Choirs 4 for SS and SSA unaccompanied
  • Five Childhood Lyrics
  • Eight Christmas Carols, Set 1 for mixed voices and piano
  • Eight Christmas Carols, Set 2 for mixed voices and piano
  • Twelve Christmas Carols, Set 1 for mixed voices and small orchestra or piano
  • Twelve Christmas Carols, Set 2 for mixed voices and small orchestra or piano
  • "The Twelve Days of Christmas" from Carols for Choirs 2 for soprano, alto, tenor and bass voices ("SATB") and piano or orchestra
  • 100 Carols for Choirs ed. Willcocks and Rutter
  • Birthday Madrigals for SATB, commissioned in 1995 by Brian Kay and the Cheltenham Bach Choir to celebrate the 75th birthday of George Shearing
  • Canticles of America
  • Carols for Choirs 2 ed. Willcocks and Rutter
  • Carols for Choirs 3 ed. Willcocks and Rutter
  • Carols for Choirs 4 ed. Willcocks and Rutter
  • Child in a manger from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB and keyboard or orchestra
  • Christiana Canticles (Evening Service in C) for SATB and organ, consisting of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, and dedicated to the choir of Christ Church, Christiana Hundred[23]
  • Christmas Night for SATB and keyboard or strings
  • Come Down, O Love Divine for double mixed choir and organ
  • Cradle Song from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB unaccompanied
  • Dancing Day for SSA with harp or piano
  • Donkey Carol for SATB and piano or orchestra
  • Flemish Carol from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB and piano or orchestra
  • "A Flower Remembered" for SATB or SAA, published with lyrics in both English and Japanese, composed in 2014 to commemorate the victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami[24][25]
  • For the Beauty of the Earth for SATB, SA, or TTBB, and piano
  • A Gaelic Blessing for SATB and organ or guitar, commissioned in 1978 by the Chancel Choir of the First United Methodist Church, Omaha, Nebraska, in honour of minister of music Mel Olson
  • Gloria for mixed voices with brass, percussion and organ or orchestra
  • Here We Come a-wassailing from Twelve Christmas Carols, Set 1
  • The Holly and the Ivy for SATB and piano or orchestra
  • I Saw Three Ships from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB and piano or orchestra
  • "I will sing with the spirit" for SATB and organ, piano or orchestra
  • Jesus Child for SATB and piano or orchestra
  • Jesus Child for unison and piano
  • Joy to the world! for SATB and keyboard or orchestra (2 trumpets, timpani and strings)
  • King Jesus hath a garden from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB and piano or flute, harp and strings
  • "Kum ba yah" - a reflective arrangement of the traditional African-American song, written in memory of Nelson Mandela.
  • "Look at the World" for SATB and Orchestra
  • "The Lord bless you and keep you"
  • Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace for SATB or TTBB with organ or harp and strings
  • Love came down at Christmas for SATB and keyboard or strings
  • Mary's Lullaby for SATB and piano or orchestra
  • Nativity Carol for SATB and keyboard or strings
  • O come, O come, Emmanuel from Twelve Christmas Carols, Set 1 for SATB and keyboard or orchestra
  • O Lord, thou hast searched me out for SATB chorus, organ and solo cor anglais (or clarinet, or viola)
  • "Psalmfest"
  • Quem pastores laudavere for SATB unaccompanied
  • Quittez, pasteurs for SATB unaccompanied
  • Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? for SATB unaccompanied
  • Shepherd's Pipe Carol for SATB and piano or orchestra or for SSAA and piano or orchestra
  • Sing we to this merry company for SATB and orchestra or organ
  • Star Carol for SATB and piano or orchestra or brass with optional children's voices or for unison and piano
  • There is a flower (original composition) for SATB unaccompanied
  • Tomorrow shall be my dancing day from the cycle of carols, Dancing Day for SSA and harp or piano
  • Wexford Carol for SATB unaccompanied
  • What sweeter music for SATB and organ or strings
  • Winchester Te Deum For SATB and Piano or Organ

Anthems and other compositions edit

Most of these works are original compositions, including new musical settings of standard texts, whilst others are arrangements of traditional hymns.

Music with narration edit

Piano music edit

  • The John Rutter Piano Album : arrangements of eight of his most popular choral pieces for solo piano.
  • The John Rutter Christmas Piano Album : eight piano arrangements of Christmas pieces composed by Rutter.[27]

References edit

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ Schwarm, Betsy (20 September 2023). "John Rutter". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  2. ^ a b Macfarlane, Alan. . Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  3. ^ Hughes, Patrick; Davies, Ian F. Highgate School Register 1833–1988 (7th ed.). Castle Cary Press.
  4. ^ a b . Rutter: Requiem/Anthems. Naxos. 2003. Archived from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  5. ^ "Composer of the Week: John Rutter". BBC Radio 3. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2014 – via YouTube.
  6. ^ . Delta Omicron. Archived from the original on 27 January 2010. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
  7. ^ . Delta Omicron. 29 March 2008. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
  8. ^ "About abcd". Association of British Choral Directors. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  9. ^ . The Daily Telegraph. 28 April 2011. Archived from the original on 29 April 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  10. ^ "In full: The order of service for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee service of thanksgiving". The Daily Telegraph. 3 June 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  11. ^ "Every piece of music at King Charles' coronation service at Westminster Abbey". Classic fm. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  12. ^ "Music of John Rutter". Bandmusicpdf.net. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  13. ^ a b Leung, Rebecca (11 February 2009). "Spreading Good Cheer". CBS News. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  14. ^ White, Michael (14 December 2001). "The carol singers' shining star". The Daily Telegraph.
  15. ^ Blackwell, David. "Meet John Rutter: Touching people's hearts". Rhinegold. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  16. ^ "John Rutter, Desert Island Discs". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  17. ^ "John Rutter, In Tune Highlights". BBC Radio 3. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  18. ^ "Expansive Poetry Online". Expansivepoetryonline.com. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  19. ^ "Sing a song of Christmas". The Guardian. 22 December 2000. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  20. ^ "John Rutter: a Life". Classic FM. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  21. ^ "Music for special occasions".
  22. ^ Taylor, Mark (14 November 2023). "Winners of The Ivors Classical Awards 2023 announced". The Ivors Academy. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  23. ^ "Christiana Canticles".
  24. ^ "A Flower Remembered". Hyperion Records. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  25. ^ Rutter, John (2014). A Flower Remembered. Oxford UP. ISBN 978-0-19-340482-3. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  26. ^ BBC Radio 3, Choral Evensong, St Bartholomew-the-Great, London, 22 March 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  27. ^ "The Piano Collection".

Sources edit

Further reading edit

  • Burrows, Helen Jane (1999). Choral Music and the Church of England 1970–1995: A Study of Selected Works and Composer–Church Relations. PhD thesis. Norwich: University of East Anglia.
  • Dakers, Lionel (1978). Making Church Music Work. Oxford and London: Mowbray.
  • Frank, Alan (1976). "John Rutter's Partita for Orchestra". The Musical Times 117, no. 1598 (April): 309.
  • Morrison, Richard (1992). "Tis the Season to Be Authentic". The Times (3 November): 29.
  • Westermeyer, Paul (1994). "John Rutter: Popular Romantic". Christian Century 111, no. 35 (7 December): 1158.

External links edit

 
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  • , performed at the royal wedding, 2011
  • Interview with John Rutter, 11 July 1991
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For the American football coach see John Rutter American football John Milford Rutter CBE born 24 September 1945 is an English composer conductor editor arranger and record producer mainly of choral music John RutterCBEBornJohn Milford Rutter 1945 09 24 24 September 1945 age 78 London EnglandAlma materClare College CambridgeOccupationsComposerconductorKnown forFounding the Cambridge SingersWebsitejohnrutter wbr com Contents 1 Biography 2 Compositions 3 Influences 4 Reception 5 Recognition 6 List of compositions and arrangements 6 1 Extended compositions 6 2 Carols 6 2 1 Other anthems 6 3 Choral works 6 4 Anthems and other compositions 6 5 Music with narration 6 6 Piano music 7 References 7 1 Footnotes 7 2 Sources 8 Further reading 9 External linksBiography editBorn on 24 September 1945 1 in London the son of an industrial chemist and his wife Rutter grew up living over the Globe pub on London s Marylebone Road 2 He was educated at Highgate School where fellow pupils included John Tavener Howard Shelley Brian Chapple and Nicholas Snowman 3 As a chorister there Rutter took part in the first 1963 recording of Britten s War Requiem under the composer s baton 4 He thence read music at Clare College Cambridge where he was a member of the choir Whilst an undergraduate he had his first compositions published including the Shepherd s Pipe Carol 4 He served as director of music at Clare College from 1975 to 1979 and led the choir to international prominence In 1981 Rutter founded his own choir the Cambridge Singers which he conducts and with which he has made many recordings of sacred choral repertoire including his own works particularly under his own label Collegium Records He resides at Hemingford Abbots in Cambridgeshire and frequently conducts many choirs and orchestras around the world From 1985 to 1992 Rutter suffered severely from myalgic encephalomyelitis ME or chronic fatigue syndrome which restricted his output after 1985 he stopped writing music on commission as he was unable to guarantee meeting deadlines 5 Rutter also works as an arranger and editor As a young man he collaborated with Sir David Willcocks on five volumes of the extraordinarily successful Carols for Choirs anthology series He was inducted as a National Patron of Delta Omicron an international professional music fraternity in 1985 6 7 Rutter is also a Vice President of the Joyful Company of Singers President of The Bach Choir and President of the Association of British Choral Directors ABCD 8 Compositions editRutter s compositions are chiefly choral and include Christmas carols anthems and extended works such as the Gloria the Requiem and the Magnificat The world premiere of Rutter s Requiem 1985 and of his authoritative edition of Faure s Requiem took place with the Fox Valley Festival Chorus in Illinois In 2002 his setting of Psalm 150 commissioned for the Queen s Golden Jubilee was performed at the Jubilee thanksgiving service in St Paul s Cathedral London Similarly he was commissioned to write a new anthem This is the day for the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011 performed at Westminster Abbey during the service 9 Rutter s work is published by Oxford University Press It has been recorded by many choirs but he conducts his own recordings principally on his label Collegium Records The first two choral items sung at the Platinum Jubilee National Service of Thanksgiving in June 2022 were arrangements by Rutter 10 as were no fewer than six items performed at the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla 11 Influences editRutter s music is eclectic showing the influences of the French and English choral traditions of the early twentieth century as well as of light music and American classic songwriting Almost every choral anthem and hymn that he writes citation needed has a subsequent orchestral accompaniment in addition to the standard piano organ accompaniment using various different instrumentations such as strings only strings and woodwinds or full orchestra with brass and percussion Many of his works have also been arranged for concert band with optional chorus 12 Despite composing and conducting much religious music Rutter told the US television programme 60 Minutes in 2003 that he was not a particularly religious man yet still deeply spiritual and inspired by the spirituality of sacred verses and prayers 13 14 The main topics considered in the 60 Minutes programme which was broadcast a week before Christmas 2003 were Rutter s popularity with choral groups in the United States Britain and other parts of the world and his composition Mass of the Children written after the sudden death of his son Christopher while a student at Clare College Cambridge where Rutter himself had studied In a 2009 interview Rutter discussed his understanding of genius and its unique ability to transform lives whether that genius is communicated in the form of music or other media He likened the purity of music to that of mathematics and connected the two with a reference to the discovery made by the early Greeks that frequencies of harmonic pitches are related by whole number ratios 2 Reception editRutter s music is very popular particularly in the US 13 15 Many hold him in high regard in the UK as illustrated by the following quotation from a review in the London Evening Standard 25 September 2005 For the infectiousness of his melodic invention and consummate craftsmanship Rutter has few peers Sue Lawley referred to Rutter as the most celebrated and successful composer of carols alive today 16 and Sean Rafferty heralded Rutter as a creator of not just carols but wonderfully great things for the human voice 17 One British composer David Arditti did not regard him as a sufficiently serious composer saying that Rutter is hard to take seriously because of the way in which his sheer technical facility or versatility leads to a superficial unstable crossover style which is neither quite classical nor pop and which tends towards mawkish sentimentality in his sugarily harmonised and orchestrated melodies 18 The Guardian remarked that it is as a writer of carols that he has really made his mark His larger scale works particularly the Gloria 1974 Requiem 1985 and Magnificat 1990 are also well established in the choral repertoire 19 David Willcocks considered Rutter the most gifted composer of his generation 20 Recognition editIn 1980 Rutter was made an honorary fellow of Westminster Choir College in Princeton New Jersey and in 1988 he became a fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians In 1996 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred a Lambeth Doctorate of Music upon him in recognition of his contribution to church music Rutter was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE in the 2007 New Year Honours for services to music 21 In 2008 he also became an honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple while playing a significant role in the 2008 Temple Festival In 2023 Rutter became a Fellow of The Ivors Academy Signified by the presentation of an Ivor Novello Award Fellowship is also a position within the Academy s members and is the highest honour bestowed by the association of music creators 22 List of compositions and arrangements editExtended compositions edit Suite for Strings 1973 Gloria 1974 Bang opera 1975 Partita for orchestra 1976 The Beatles Concerto 1977 Suite Antique 1979 Requiem 1985 Magnificat 1990 Te Deum 1990 Mass of the Children 2003 Suite Lyrique 2011 The Gift of Life Six Canticles of Creation 2015 Visions 2016 Carols edit All Bells in Paradise original composition Angels Carol original composition Angel Tidings arrangement Born on Earth arrangement Candlelight Carol original composition Carol of the Children original composition Carol of the Magi original composition Cantique de Noel arrangement Child in a Manger arrangement of Gaelic melody Bunessan original words Christ our Emmanuel original composition Christmas Bells arrangement of the Norwegian folk song Pal Pa Haugen with new Christmas lyrics by Rutter Christmas Lullaby Christmas Night arrangement the title song on the Cambridge Singers s first album Deck the Hall arrangement The Donkey Carol not to be confused with the song The Friendly Beasts arranged by John Davis that also goes by the nickname Donkey Carol Dormi Jesu Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen original composition I Sing of a Maiden original composition I Wish You Christmas Jesus Child Joseph s Carol original composition Joy to the World arrangement Love Came Down at Christmas arrangement Mary s Lullaby Nativity Carol 1st line Born in a Stable so Bare original composition Personent hodie arrangement Hajej nynej Jezisku arrangement and translation of Czech carol called Hajej nynej Jezisku Rejoice and Be Merry Shepherd s Pipe Carol Silent Night arrangement Star Carol Suzi s Carol original composition There is a Flower original composition The Twelve Days of Christmas arrangement The Very Best Time of Year Up Good Christen Folk We Will We Wish You a Merry Christmas arrangement Wexford Carol arrangement Was I the lamb Setting of words by Marc Bratcher to celebrate the Chaplain s 20 years of service as Chaplain of Merton College What Sweeter Music Wild Wood Carol Other anthems edit All Things Bright and Beautiful Rutter setting the hymn Banquet Fugue Born on Earth Rutter arrangement of the song For the beauty of the earth setting the hymn I Wonder as I Wander Rutter arrangement of the Christmas carol Look at the world Choral works edit Three Carols from Carols for Choirs 4 for SS and SSA unaccompanied Five Childhood Lyrics Eight Christmas Carols Set 1 for mixed voices and piano Eight Christmas Carols Set 2 for mixed voices and piano Twelve Christmas Carols Set 1 for mixed voices and small orchestra or piano Twelve Christmas Carols Set 2 for mixed voices and small orchestra or piano The Twelve Days of Christmas from Carols for Choirs 2 for soprano alto tenor and bass voices SATB and piano or orchestra 100 Carols for Choirs ed Willcocks and Rutter Birthday Madrigals for SATB commissioned in 1995 by Brian Kay and the Cheltenham Bach Choir to celebrate the 75th birthday of George Shearing Canticles of America Carols for Choirs 2 ed Willcocks and Rutter Carols for Choirs 3 ed Willcocks and Rutter Carols for Choirs 4 ed Willcocks and Rutter Child in a manger from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB and keyboard or orchestra Christiana Canticles Evening Service in C for SATB and organ consisting of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis and dedicated to the choir of Christ Church Christiana Hundred 23 Christmas Night for SATB and keyboard or strings Come Down O Love Divine for double mixed choir and organ Cradle Song from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB unaccompanied Dancing Day for SSA with harp or piano Donkey Carol for SATB and piano or orchestra Flemish Carol from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB and piano or orchestra A Flower Remembered for SATB or SAA published with lyrics in both English and Japanese composed in 2014 to commemorate the victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami 24 25 For the Beauty of the Earth for SATB SA or TTBB and piano A Gaelic Blessing for SATB and organ or guitar commissioned in 1978 by the Chancel Choir of the First United Methodist Church Omaha Nebraska in honour of minister of music Mel Olson Gloria for mixed voices with brass percussion and organ or orchestra Here We Come a wassailing from Twelve Christmas Carols Set 1 The Holly and the Ivy for SATB and piano or orchestra I Saw Three Ships from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB and piano or orchestra I will sing with the spirit for SATB and organ piano or orchestra Jesus Child for SATB and piano or orchestra Jesus Child for unison and piano Joy to the world for SATB and keyboard or orchestra 2 trumpets timpani and strings King Jesus hath a garden from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB and piano or flute harp and strings Kum ba yah a reflective arrangement of the traditional African American song written in memory of Nelson Mandela Look at the World for SATB and Orchestra The Lord bless you and keep you Lord Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace for SATB or TTBB with organ or harp and strings Love came down at Christmas for SATB and keyboard or strings Mary s Lullaby for SATB and piano or orchestra Nativity Carol for SATB and keyboard or strings O come O come Emmanuel from Twelve Christmas Carols Set 1 for SATB and keyboard or orchestra O Lord thou hast searched me out for SATB chorus organ and solo cor anglais or clarinet or viola Psalmfest Quem pastores laudavere for SATB unaccompanied Quittez pasteurs for SATB unaccompanied Shall I compare thee to a summer s day for SATB unaccompanied Shepherd s Pipe Carol for SATB and piano or orchestra or for SSAA and piano or orchestra Sing we to this merry company for SATB and orchestra or organ Star Carol for SATB and piano or orchestra or brass with optional children s voices or for unison and piano There is a flower original composition for SATB unaccompanied Tomorrow shall be my dancing day from the cycle of carols Dancing Day for SSA and harp or piano Wexford Carol for SATB unaccompanied What sweeter music for SATB and organ or strings Winchester Te Deum For SATB and Piano or Organ Anthems and other compositions edit Most of these works are original compositions including new musical settings of standard texts whilst others are arrangements of traditional hymns All Creatures of Our God and King All Things Bright and Beautiful As the bridegroom to his chosen Be Thou my vision The Beatles Concerto Behold the Tabernacle of God Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind Canticle of the Heavenly City commissioned for the dedication of John Piper s Nativity window in the church of St Mary the Virgin Iffley Children s chorus opt A Choral Amen A Choral Fanfare Christ the Lord is risen again A Clare Benediction Creation s Alleluia Distant Land The Falcon Fancies part of Eight Childhood Lyrics Feel the Spirit For the Beauty of the Earth Go forth into the world in peace God be in my head God is here 26 Greensleeves Gregorian Chant Heavenly Aeroplane How Firm A Foundation Hymn to the Creator of Light I believe in springtime I will lift up mine eyes I will sing with the spirit I will worship the Lord I Wonder as I Wander The King of Love my Shepherd Is Let us go in peace Look at the World Look to the Day The Lord is my light and my salvation The Lord is my Shepherd SATB amp organ This is the day the Lord hath made Loving shepherd of thy sheep Musica Dei donum Now thank we all our God O be joyful in the Lord O clap your hands O Praise the Lord of Heaven Open Thou Mine Eyes Partita The Peace of God Pie Jesu Praise the Lord O my soul Praise ye the Lord A Prayer of Saint Patrick A St John s College Prayer Commissioned for the College s 500th anniversary 2011 Thanksgiving Prayer This is the Day Commissioned for the Royal Wedding 2011 Thy Perfect love Toccata in 7 To Everything There is a Season A Ukrainian Prayer When Icicles Hang When the Saints Go Marching In Wings of the Morning With Heart and Hands Music with narration edit Setting of The Wind in the Willows for narrator SATB chorus and chamber orchestra Brother Heinrich s Christmas The Reluctant DragonPiano music edit The John Rutter Piano Album arrangements of eight of his most popular choral pieces for solo piano The John Rutter Christmas Piano Album eight piano arrangements of Christmas pieces composed by Rutter 27 References editFootnotes edit Schwarm Betsy 20 September 2023 John Rutter Encyclopedia Britannica a b Macfarlane Alan Interview with John Rutter Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 Retrieved 18 December 2013 Hughes Patrick Davies Ian F Highgate School Register 1833 1988 7th ed Castle Cary Press a b About this Recording Rutter Requiem Anthems Naxos 2003 Archived from the original on 31 March 2022 Retrieved 1 November 2016 Composer of the Week John Rutter BBC Radio 3 Archived from the original on 21 December 2021 Retrieved 28 September 2014 via YouTube Welcome To Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity Delta Omicron Archived from the original on 27 January 2010 Retrieved 22 July 2011 News Delta Omicron 29 March 2008 Archived from the original on 25 July 2011 Retrieved 22 July 2011 About abcd Association of British Choral Directors Retrieved 7 February 2019 Order of Service The Daily Telegraph 28 April 2011 Archived from the original on 29 April 2011 Retrieved 7 February 2019 In full The order of service for the Queen s Platinum Jubilee service of thanksgiving The Daily Telegraph 3 June 2022 Retrieved 6 July 2022 Every piece of music at King Charles coronation service at Westminster Abbey Classic fm Retrieved 7 May 2023 Music of John Rutter Bandmusicpdf net Retrieved 7 February 2019 a b Leung Rebecca 11 February 2009 Spreading Good Cheer CBS News Retrieved 7 February 2019 White Michael 14 December 2001 The carol singers shining star The Daily Telegraph Blackwell David Meet John Rutter Touching people s hearts Rhinegold Retrieved 7 February 2019 John Rutter Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4 Retrieved 7 February 2019 John Rutter In Tune Highlights BBC Radio 3 18 December 2014 Retrieved 25 March 2016 Expansive Poetry Online Expansivepoetryonline com Retrieved 28 September 2014 Sing a song of Christmas The Guardian 22 December 2000 Retrieved 7 February 2019 John Rutter a Life Classic FM Retrieved 28 September 2014 Music for special occasions Taylor Mark 14 November 2023 Winners of The Ivors Classical Awards 2023 announced The Ivors Academy Retrieved 15 November 2023 Christiana Canticles A Flower Remembered Hyperion Records Retrieved 10 June 2019 Rutter John 2014 A Flower Remembered Oxford UP ISBN 978 0 19 340482 3 Retrieved 10 June 2019 BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong St Bartholomew the Great London 22 March 2023 Retrieved 24 March 2023 The Piano Collection Sources edit Kennedy Michael 2006 The Oxford Dictionary of Music 985 pages ISBN 0 19 861459 4Further reading editBurrows Helen Jane 1999 Choral Music and the Church of England 1970 1995 A Study of Selected Works and Composer Church Relations PhD thesis Norwich University of East Anglia Dakers Lionel 1978 Making Church Music Work Oxford and London Mowbray Frank Alan 1976 John Rutter s Partita for Orchestra The Musical Times 117 no 1598 April 309 Morrison Richard 1992 Tis the Season to Be Authentic The Times 3 November 29 Westermeyer Paul 1994 John Rutter Popular Romantic Christian Century 111 no 35 7 December 1158 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to John Rutter Official website nbsp Rutter at the Oxford University Press website John Rutter interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 28 January 2009 video John Rutter interviewed by C Music TV October 2010 on YouTube John Rutter interviewed by C Music TV October 2010 from C Music TV This is the Day performed at the royal wedding 2011 Interview with John Rutter 11 July 1991Academic officesPreceded byPeter Dennison Director of Music for Clare College Cambridge1975 1979 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