Requiem & Magnificat/Rutter, Cambridge Singers
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Free Music Review: Gorgeous music
Hit: 5 Stars
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.Free Music Review: Magnificent Magnificat
Hit: 5 Stars
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.Free Music Review: Sublime!
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this to learn the requiem for a choral performance. It is hauntingly beautiful and I have listened to it again and again.Free Music Review: Cambridge Singers have never been better!
Hit: 5 Stars
I have listened to many other composers' requiems, but this one beats them all. It is a little unusual to have both English and Latin liturgy in a requiem, but it is entirely appropriate in this case, as it contains the Mass, psalms, and personal prayers to Christ--I thoroughly enjoyed some of the burial service text sang along with the requiem mass. The Cambridge singers are sublime, and Caroline Ashton's voice (soprano) is perfect. Liner notes containing lyrics and translations are included if you do not speak Latin. The "Sanctus" is very unique and much faster-paced than I am used to, with high voices starting and baritones/tenors echoing. If I have anything to dislike about Rutter's requiem, it is the fact that there is no "Dies Irae" text at all; they seem to have been replaced by psalms. However, the excellence of the singers and the great choice of the texts makes up for it very well.Free Music Review: Rutter Requiem, Magnificat
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a quality recording with great performances of both works. These are two choral works which have stood the test of time by a great choral arranger and conductor who truly knows voices and choirs.
The recording is clean and authentic, not "studio contrived."