John Rutter | Missa Brevis and other new choral works by Andrew, Briggs, Coxhead, MacDonald, MacMillan, McDowall, McGlade, Moore, Rooney, Walker, Weir

Description

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.

In addition to Rutter’s significant addition to the repertoire of shorter Mass settings, the collection also features contributions from other longestablished composers of church music: Cecilia McDowall, Judith Weir, Philip Moore, and James MacMillan, together with a number of works from emerging new voices – the majority being younger female composers, with most of these pieces receiving their first commercial recording.

York Minster has always been renowned as a place that has maintained and advanced the artistic endeavours of its music. The works on this album reflect that breadth of invention in the continually-developing tradition of sacred choral music over the last twenty-five years with works from 1997 to the 2020s in a wide variety of styles – the majority of pieces written within the last decade.

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