Recommended Recordings
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Recommended recordings of Rutter Magnificat
The most obvious recording is the one by John himself, with his choir, the Cambridge Singers, and the City of London Sinfonia. You can find it on YouTube: Or you can buy the CD at Presto Music or Amazon. You can listen to Fecit potentiam here:
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Recommended recordings of Fauré Requiem
There are lots of recordings available of this classic work, but only some use the smaller orchestration that we are using in our performance, which was edited by John Rutter, using the original scores of 1893. Your can view John’s recording of his edition, with his Cambridge Singers, on YouTube: You can also buy the…
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Recommended Recordings of Brahms ‘Schicksalslied’
Brahms Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) appears on several recordings, often as a filler alongside other works. We’ve picked out two recordings that you might want to consider. John Eliot Gardiner recorded the Schicksalslied with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, in 2007. The disc features Brahms Symphony No.1, and Begräbnisgesang, as well as Mendelssohn’s…
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Recommended recordings of Haydn’s ‘Harmoniemesse’
A quick search on our favourite online CD stores yielded 50 recordings of the Harmony Mass, so there are plenty out there, but how do you narrow down a shortlist? Here are a few thoughts… A good place to start when looking for recordings is BBC Radio 3’s ‘Building a Library’ strand. Whilst the particular…
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