Preces & Responses ; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B minor (original setting) ; Preces & Responses ; Second Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis) ; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in C minor (unison voices) (transposed to D minor) ; Preces & Responses ; Lord's Prayer ; Short Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis) ; Second Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis) ; Short Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis) ; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B minor ; Psalm Chants ; Preces & Responses ; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B minor ; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in G minor ; Preces & Responses ; Good Friday Reproaches ; Preces & Responses ; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in G ; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in C ; Te Deum and Jubilate in C ; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in A ; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B flat ; Lord's Prayer ; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (St John's service) ; Preces & Responses ; Te Deum in G ; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in D minor ; Magnificat & Nunc Dimmitis (Chichester Service) ; Jubilate Deo ; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis No.2 in E flat ; An Order for Compline
'This is a magnificent volume'
'This is a magnificent volume'
For 30 years Robert King has enjoyed a busy career as a conductor, festival director, and editor. He read music at Cambridge, where in 1980 he founded the period instrument orchestra and choir The King's Consort. TKC has since toured across the globe, made almost 100 recordings, and won many international awards. King has conducted many of the leading orchestras and chamber choirs of Europe and North America, as well as operas in Japan, Britain, France, Germany, and Spain. He has written and presented for the BBC, been artistic director of music festivals in Sweden, Germany, and the UK, and contributed to the scores of Hollywood films including Shrek 2, Pirates of the Caribbean, Flushed Away, and The Da Vinci Code. Renowned as an expert in Baroque and Classical music, King has created performing editions of more than 100 works, which are used by professional and amateur performers across the world. John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and studied music at Clare College, Cambridge. His compositions embrace choral, orchestral, and instrumental music, and he has edited or co-edited various choral anthologies, including four Carols for Choirs volumes with Sir David Willcocks and the Oxford Choral Classics series. From 1975 to 1979 he was Director of Music at Clare College, and in 1981 he formed his own choir, the Cambridge Singers. He now divides his time between composition and conducting and is sought after as a guest conductor for the world's leading choirs and orchestras. John Rutter's music has been widely recorded and is available on many record labels including Universal, Naxos, and Hyperion. The Cambridge Singers have recorded many of John Rutter's works on the Collegium Records label.
This 'Evensong' volume is a tremendous publication: carefully
chosen, authoritatively presented, and extremely good value for
money . . . Everyone with any interest in this repertoire will have
their own ideas about questionable inclusons and regrettable
omissions but the selection is solid . . . This anthology is
excellent, and its attention to detail is gratifying . . . This is
a magnificent volume. Durability of anthologies is a perennial
cause for concern, but my copy of European Sacred Music is still in
good nick after 15 years of heavy use; English Church Music vol. 2
should prove similarly imperishable. * Jeremy Summerly, Choir &
Organ March 2012 *
But those who do buy it will greatly benefit, as there are insights
throughout, from the beginning (Blair's B minor service in its
original form rather than Atkins' rewriting as normally sung) to
the final Preces and Responses (Stone and Tomkins, both with new
reconstructions of their missing parts). * Church Music Quarterly,
June 2012 *
This is quite a bold move in the series. English and Latin church
music is often sung in concert as well as in church, but it is rare
for Anglican services to be sung thus. I'm not very sure why, since
a morning or evening service is shorter than a mass and enables
programmes to be more flexible . . . I hope that this sells well to
collegiate and cathedral choirs, and other emulate them. As always
with the series, the layout is excellent, the biographical and
editorial comments are the right level, and I trust John Rutter's
proof-reading to make it unnecessary to do spot checks. * Clifford
Bartlett, Early Music Review *
Beide Bande sind als Grundausstattung und zur Einfuhrung in die
anglikanische Chormusik hevorragend geeignet. [Both volumes offer
an excellent overview of and introduction to Anglican choral
music.] * Dominik Axtmann, Musik und Kirche, January 14 *
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