![]() ![]() These days, when not dashing about the globe conducting, he concentrates on composing, though no longer for commission, which he found to be “a treadmill.” He runs his own professional choir, The Cambridge Singers, and recording company, Collegium. The four volumes of Carols for Choirs, which Rutter edited with Sir David Willcocks, are used worldwide, and he has taken his pen to the new Oxford Choral Classics series, Opera Choruses (1995) and European Sacred Music (1996). There’s orchestral and instrumental music, children’s operas and scores for TV. His varied canon also encompasses large and small choral works: “Gloria” (1974), the introspective “Requiem” (1985), joyful “Magnificat” (1990) and popular “For the Beauty of the Earth” (1980). ![]() Others, like “Donkey Carol” and “Star Carol,” are firm favorites of the Yuletide repertoire, and just about everywhere you’ll hear his jolly, tuneful songs. He wrote his first carols, including “Nativity Carol” and “Shepherd’s Pipe Carol,” while still in his teens. COURTESY OF COLLEGIUM RECORDS Pausing from a conducting schedule that takes him all over the world, John Rutter relaxes at home.Īlongside Santa and Charles Dickens, the name of composer, conductor and arranger John Rutter has become synonymous with the Christmas season.
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