John Rutter

banjobongo

I have been listening to The Requiem by John Rutter lately, some beautiful choral passages in this piece, has anybody else out there listened to him before? - reminded me a bit of Faure and Verdi (4 Sacred Pieces).

banquo

Rutter is pretty cool imo.

More on this later.

Norrdeth

Haven't listened to the requiem the whole way through, just heard stuff that he arranged and it was awful, really tacky like.
I'd take Whitacre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zqp0OpzMAI
or
Paweł Łukaszewski
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lacvoa4xwmQ
instead any day.

funky penguin

Norrdeth wrote: »

Haven't listened to the requiem the whole way through, just heard stuff that he arranged and it was awful, really tacky like.

This from the man who listens to Nightwish? :P

tootyflutty

Love him, have preformed that Requim, and also Angel's Carol and a number of other pieces by him with my choir. Because of his works we came 1st in the Navan Chroal Festival last year and 3rd this year

Doshea3

Rutter has moments of niceness but is overall terrible in my humble opinion. Very uninspired writing mostly—the sort of thing I would write if I didn't have any sense of morality. And it reminds me of eating a sherry trifle stuffed with pink bonbons.

The Mad Hatter

No sense of morality?! I'm intrigued now...*heads to YouTube*

The Mad Hatter

Oh, I think I'm gonna be sick.

That is definitely a composer I could live quite happily without ever hearing again.

docholiday

does anyone know what that song is called that goes
di di di ......di di di di di di....di di di di di di di di di
thanks in advance guys

The Mad Hatter

docholiday wrote: »

does anyone know what that song is called that goes
di di di ......di di di di di di....di di di di di di di di di
thanks in advance guys

Yeah, it's Prelude from Akhnaten by Philip Glass.

Here's a recording.