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Angels' Carol is a popular sacred choral piece by John Rutter for Christmas. He wrote his own text, beginning "Have you heard the sound of the angel voices", [1] three stanzas with the refrain "Gloria in excelsis Deo". It has been part of recordings of collections of Christmas music, including one conducted by the composer.
Carols for Choirs was an instant success and became OUP Music Department's best-selling title, with over a million copies being sold. [2] OUP were keen to commission a second volume, but after the death of Jacques in 1969, a new editor had to be found to support Willcocks, and an undergraduate at Cambridge University , John Rutter , was recruited.
John Rutter interviewed by Alan Macfarlane, 28 January 2009 (video) on YouTube; John Rutter interviewed by C Music TV, October 2010 Archived 6 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine from C Music TV; This is the Day, performed at the royal wedding, 2011; Interview with John Rutter, 11 July 1991
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Suite Antique is a 1979 concertante work by John Rutter that is written for harpsichord, flute and string orchestra. [1] [2]Rutter composed the piece, in six movements, for a concert at which Bach's fifth Brandenburg concerto was to be performed, and so decided to write the piece for the same ensemble. [3]
The "Shepherd's Pipe Carol" was composed by John Rutter in 1966 when he was studying as an undergraduate at Clare College at the University of Cambridge. [1] [2] Rutter stated that he believed his inspiration for writing it came from when he sang as a boy soprano during the opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors" and heard pipe music as the title character headed for Bethlehem with the Biblical Magi.