Elegy and Festive Bells
Published on 19. September 2019
Other
Sheet music
12 pages
978-0-19-353155-0 (ISBN)
Description
Elegy, with its warmly expressive tenor-range melodies, is highly suitable for use at funerals, while the cascading joy of Festive Bells makes it perfect as a wedding recessional. The finely wrought sonorities will sound to maximum effect on a large organ in a spacious acoustic, but will nonetheless be convincing on even the most modest of instruments. Both pieces have that warm sense of Englishness that makes them very accessible to the first-time listener.
Reviews / Votes
The great strength of Rutter is his ability to write a gorgeous tonal melody; Elegy is a monothematic composition with a melody that might have come from one of his choral works . . . Of only moderate difficulty, this would be useful either as a postlude or a processional piece. * Brian P. Harlow, Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians, December 2019 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 311 mm
Width: 232 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight
80 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-353155-0 (9780193531550)
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Person
John Rutter studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and first came to notice as a composer and arranger of Christmas carols and other choral pieces during those early years; today his compositions, including such concert-length works as Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, The Gift of Life, and Visions are performed around the world. John edits the Oxford Choral Classics series, and, with Sir David Willcocks, co-edited four volumes of Carols for Choirs. In 1983 he formed his own choir The Cambridge Singers, with whom he has made numerous recordings on the Collegium Records label, and he appears regularly in several countries as a guest conductor and choral ambassador. John holds a Lambeth Doctorate in Music, and in 2007 was awarded a CBE for services to music. In September 2023, he received the Ivors Academy Fellowship, and in 2024 he was knighted in the King's Birthday Honours.