John Rutter's handpicked Cambridge Singers have lately been more often deployed in his own music, but Rutter originally formed the group to perform monuments of Renaissance sacred music like those heard on this release. The singers, adult and mixed in gender, mostly emerged from the choral groups of prominent English universities and cathedrals, but Rutter has certainly put his own stamp on them. His performances of Renaissance works tend to make them sound like his own music, with a sunny, slightly soprano-heavy sound ...
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John Rutter's handpicked Cambridge Singers have lately been more often deployed in his own music, but Rutter originally formed the group to perform monuments of Renaissance sacred music like those heard on this release. The singers, adult and mixed in gender, mostly emerged from the choral groups of prominent English universities and cathedrals, but Rutter has certainly put his own stamp on them. His performances of Renaissance works tend to make them sound like his own music, with a sunny, slightly soprano-heavy sound (there are 12 sopranos and only seven or eight singers on the other voice parts) clear articulation of the texts and the polyphony, and a certain piety. The program here extends forward into the Baroque with Bach and Buxtehude, not with notable success, but many of the Renaissance standards are very appealing. Consider the setting of O vos omnes by Carlo Gesualdo (track 8), for which the O vos omnes by Victoria (track 13) provides a useful foil. The bright sound of Rutter's singers...
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