Cambridge Singers
Britain's Cambridge Singers, prolific and commercially successful, are among the best-known choral ensembles of the contemporary era. They were founded by composer John Rutter primarily as a vehicle for recording his music, although the group has also performed other music.
Rutter established the Cambridge Singers in 1981, drawing on the membership of the Clare College Choir at Cambridge University, where he had been the director from 1975 to 1979. He augmented this core with other singers who had been choral scholars at major British universities. Although the Cambridge Singers have given live performances, Rutter intended them as a recording ensemble, and he formed Collegium Records in 1984 as a vehicle for recordings of the group. At the time, small independent labels devoted to choral music were still fairly rare. The debut Cambridge Singers recording, featuring Fauré's Requiem, was a critical success. Also in 1984, Rutter and the Cambridge Singers issued Gloria: The Sacred Music of John Rutter (reissued in 2005), and as Rutter's popularity grew, with choral music at the center of his output, it was the Cambridge Singers who were heard on the recordings that made him internationally famous. The group has spawned several impressive solo vocal careers, including those of tenor Mark Padmore and baritone Gerald Finley.
The Cambridge Singers have recorded various works not by Rutter, both with Rutter and with others as conductor; in 2016 they were heard on a Royal Philharmonic Orchestra recording of Gustav Holst's The Planets, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes. They have even crossed into the pop sphere with appearances on several albums by the electronic ensemble Mannheim Steamroller. The Cambridge Singers have been extremely prolific, often releasing two or three albums per year in the 1990s and 2000s decades. They also released a new recording of Rutter's Requiem, paired with a new work, Visions, in 2016.
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21 Album, -en • Geordnet nach Bestseller
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John Rutter Christmas Album
Stephen Varcoe, Ruth Holton, Gerald Finley, Cambridge Singers, City Of London Sinfonia, John Rutter
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 24.09.2002
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Christmas Star - Carols for The Christmas Season
Cambridge Singers, Cambridge Orchestra, John Rutter
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 23.09.1997
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Cambridge Singers Christmas Album
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.09.2003
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Faire Is The Heaven - Music Of The English Church
Cambridge Singers, Mary Seers, John Rutter
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.09.1988
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There Is Sweet Music - English Choral Songs 1890-1950
Cambridge Singers, Mark Padmore, Philip Sheffield, Nicholas Sears, John Rutter
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.01.1986
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Be Thou My Vision - Sacred Music by John Rutter
Cambridge Singers, Caroline Ashton, City Of London Sinfonia, David Rix, John Rutter
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.10.2004
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Christmas Festival (A)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.10.2008
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Lighten Our Darkness: Music for the Close of Day
Cambridge Singers, John Harte, Simon Wall, John Rutter
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.10.2006
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Choral Concert: Cambridge Singers - Gabrieli, G. / Monteverdi, C. / Palestrina, G.P. Da / Lasso, O. Di / Sweelinck, J.P. (The Sacred Flame)
Cambridge Singers, Nuova Musica, La, Mark Williams, John Rutter
Chorwerk (für den Chor) - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.03.2009
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Rutter: A Double Celebration
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.09.2014
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Rutter: The Sprig of Thyme / Vaughan Williams: 5 English Folk Songs
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 29.08.2005
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Treasures of English Church Music
Cambridge Singers, Mary Seers, Karen Kerslake, Frances Jellard, Caroline Ashton, John Rutter
Chorwerk (für den Chor) - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.09.1995
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Hail! Queen of Heaven - Music in Honour of the Virgin Mary
Cambridge Singers, Caroline Ashton, John Rutter, Andrew Gant
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.04.1992
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Stillness And Sweet Harmony
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 10.10.1996
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Byrd: Motets and Anthems
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.01.1989
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Images Of Christ
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.11.1995
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The Planets
Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes
Klassik - Erschienen bei Royal Philharmonic Orchestra am 02.09.2016
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Hail, Gladdening Light - Music Of The English Church
Cambridge Singers, Karen Kerslake, Frances Jellard, Caroline Ashton, John Rutter
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.10.1991
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Poulenc: Sacred Music
Donna Deam, Mary Seers, Cambridge Singers, City Of London Sinfonia, John Rutter
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.01.1988
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Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers - Elizabethan Madrigals
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.01.1987
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rutter: Te Deum and Other Church Music
Cambridge Singers, John Scott, David Rix, City Of London Sinfonia, John Rutter
Klassik - Erschienen bei Collegium am 01.11.1990
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo