We Have a Strong City: Vocal Score

ISBN-13: 9780193511620 / Angielski

John Rutter

Opis

for SATB, trumpet in C, and organ This substantial anthem was composed in 2015 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and to mark Salisbury Cathedral's stewardship of the charter since 1215. Rutter succeeds in weaving together passages from the books of Isaiah, Zechariah, and Amos with music that is both ceremonial and mysteriously intense to create a dignified and powerful work.

Recenzje

We have a strong city, with words from Isaiah, Zechariah and Amos, was written for Salisbury Cathedral to mark its stewardship of Magna Carta, and is a 7 and a half minute reflection on what God expects of his people and his reward for them. The music is derived from a little (ideally distant) trumpet motif heard at the start. Rutter's writing for choir and organ is surefooted and he is always sensitive to words; this is an anthem of noble intensity. Particularly magical is the way he treats 'and the hills shall break forth before you into singing' where the word 'singing' is repeated eight times, firstly in a rising sequence, then falling away on a descending A to D, an inversion of the trumpet's opening D-A motif.

O autorze

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 was awarded a CBE for services to music in 2007.