What Sweeter Music
John Rutter
Ensemble Altera
directed by Christopher Lowrey
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The first of many pieces written by John Rutter for the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, 'What Sweeter Music' feels like slipping on a pair of comfy slippers on Boxing Day morning. It was commissioned by late director of music at King's, Stephen Cleobury, for the 1987 broadcast of Nine Lessons and Carols. Rutter, setting a text by 17th-century English poet Robert Herrick (perhaps best remembered for enjoining lovers young and old to 'Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May'), explains that the poem "was not only just right in that context, highlighting the idea of the gifts that we can bring but also seemed to sum up exactly what carols are for and what Christmas is all about."
15 сен 2024
