John Rutter

Rutter's piece sets a Japanese translation of the composer's own text that emphasises the significance of music and harmony in an ephemeral world. Alternating unison and polyphonic verses accompanied...

This is a vibrant and rhythmic Christmas carol based on an anonymous 15th-century text. The modal feel and lively rhythms lend this carol a medieval character which will delight singers and audiences...

Orchestral material is available on hire.

This tender carol sets an affecting text by Christina Rossetti that tells the story of Jesus's birth. In classic McDowall style, the setting explores a variety of choral textures and is interspersed w...

For SATB choir and piano or small orchestra. A cycle of six choral settings of Elizabethan poetry by Campion, Herrick, Middleton, Shakespeare, and others. Orchestral material is available on hire.

A cycle of choral settings with words by Campion, Shakespeare, and anon. for SATB (with tenor solo) and small orchestra. Full scores and orchestral parts are available on hire. Good ale and Blow, blow...

For SATB and piano, or piano, bass, and drum kit. This show-stopping fughetta is part of John Rutter's 'musical fable' The Reluctant Dragon. Also available in Encores for Choirs. Instrumental material...

This lyrical and charming setting of 'Now the Green Blade Riseth' from The Oxford Book of Carols depicts the pastoral images describing Christ's Resurrection with a gentle folksong-like tune and simpl...

The popular John Rutter Christmas carol with piano accompaniment. Orchestral scores and parts are also availble on hire, as well as versions for SSAA (W76), and unison voices (U133). Offprinted from t...

Both the texts, an anonymous one from the 14th century and one attributed to Pope Clement XI, are prayers. Very simple choral sections, using sustained drones, alternate with more florid solos. The mu...

This is Stanford's extended Latin setting of this text, written in 1918 and acknowledged as its composer's finest a cappella choral work.

This joyful and richly expressive choral cantata is a setting of what is often thought of as a Thanksgiving psalm or a psalm in praise of Harvest time. From its atmospheric opening through to its upbe...

This unusual and highly effective choral cantata in five sections uses poems which are a celebration of how the living spirit of the drum is brought alive. This is an exuberant and rhythmic work, and...

In this classic Rutter anthem the flowing choral melodies perfectly complement the positive message of the well-known thanksgiving text by F. S. Pierpoint, presented here in Japanese translation.

An easy anthem for SATB choir, Look at the world is suitable for Harvest Festival services, or for any occasion where it is appropriate to praise God for the gifts of creation. The text is presented h...

With an evocative but little-known text by Richard Crashaw, this is a lovely, gentle anthem suitable for many occasions. The music opens with a wistful soprano melody, and following the insistence of...

Bob Chilcott's solemn yet uplifting Requiem sets words from the 'Missa pro defunctis' and the Book of Common Prayer giving a new slant on established texts. Requiem is an elegy for the modern day. The...

This powerful anthem was first performed at St Paul's Cathedral, and is dedicated to victims of torture and those working for their release. With expansive melodies which echo between the vocal lines...

The motet O magnum mysterium is not found in any of Morales's published works, but in three separate manuscripts in Valladolid, Madrid, and Toledo, which would indicate a certain popularity of this Ch...

This short and easy anthem is a statement of the Christian intent, serene in its quiet confidence. Words are from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. Scores and string parts are available on hire. Also av...

Setting a text by Elizabeth Barratt Browning, this thoughtful and evocative piece compares a dying relationship with the changing of the seasons from summer to winter. Also available in versions for s...

Originally published as the fifth movement in the large-scale work The Gift of Life, this is a pleasingly optimistic anthem in Rutter's gloriously uplifting style. The words by the composer capture a...

This arrangement features Robert Bridges' translation of J. Neander's 17th-century German text set to Herbert Howells' hymn tune 'Michael'. John Rutter adds a descant and reharmonizes the 4th and 5th...