This box set is a compilation of compilations, an assembly of Rutter anthology discs featuring performances going back as far as 1983. Each CD is marked "This album is part of a box set. Not to be sold separately." But at least some of them appear to simply reproduce the booklet text and artwork of the original releases. The upside is that nothing has been eliminated, either; unlike with the usual corner-cutting ways of budget releases, the buyer here is furnished with full texts as well as a variety of Rutter's own ...
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This box set is a compilation of compilations, an assembly of Rutter anthology discs featuring performances going back as far as 1983. Each CD is marked "This album is part of a box set. Not to be sold separately." But at least some of them appear to simply reproduce the booklet text and artwork of the original releases. The upside is that nothing has been eliminated, either; unlike with the usual corner-cutting ways of budget releases, the buyer here is furnished with full texts as well as a variety of Rutter's own reflections on his music. Rutter, for those unfamiliar with him, is the sunny optimist of contemporary British choral music. Creditable with a strong knowledge of British religious poetry and gifted with an instinct for how to set it evocatively, he has written a large amount of mostly religious music that can be charged with false sentimentality but defended against that charge on the grounds of the music's craft and economy. Each of these discs is organized around a large sacred...
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Add this copy of The Choral Works of John Rutter to cart. $76.45, like new condition, Sold by Griffin Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Stamford, CT, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Collegium Records.
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