John Rutter: Missa Brevis
REGCD576 (Regent Records, CD)
DDD
FIRST RELEASE (28 February 2025)
Playing time: 80'19"
Tracks: 23
Booklet pages: 28
℗ 2024 Regent Records Ltd
© 2024 Regent Records Ltd
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of John Rutter: Missa Brevis published on 27 January 2025
The Choir of York Minster
Benjamin Morris, organ (tracks 1-6, 9 and 23)
Robert Sharpe, director
John Rutter:
Missa Brevis
1 Kyrie
2 Gloria
3 Sanctus
4 Benedictus
5 Agnus Dei
Cecilia McDowall:
6 O sing unto the Lord
Lucy Walker:
7 Today
Sarah MacDonald:
8 After this, we will return
Annabel Rooney:
9 Round me falls the night
Becky McGlade:
10 O sing unto the Lord
James MacMillan:
The Short Service
11 Magnificat
12 Nunc dimittis
Judith Weir:
13 Love bade me welcome
Sarah MacDonald:
14 Introit for Creationtide
Kerensa Briggs:
15 Media vita
Becky McGlade:
16 The Lamb
Philip Moore:
17 Lord Jesus Christ
Kerry Andrew:
18 O lux beata Trinitas
Cecilia McDowall:
19 The Loving Memory
Becky McGlade:
20 Come, my way, my truth, my life
Elizabeth and Thomas Coxhead:
21 My eyes for beauty pine
Kerensa Briggs:
22 Set me as a seal
John Rutter:
23 Celebration (Ite, missa est)
John Rutter's new Missa Brevis, written for Robert Sharpe and the Choir of York Minster, in memory of composer, Richard Shephard, is the major work in this collection of recent sacred choral music by living composers. The collection also features contributions from other long-established composers of church music: Cecilia McDowall, Judith Weir, Philip Moore and James MacMillan, together with a number of works from emerging new voices, with most of these pieces receiving their first commercial recording.
Recorded 18-19 January, 9 February and 30 March 2023 in York Minster, York, UK.