Name: Celebrating with John Rutter
Start: 2024-02-17T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-02-17T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Windsor Castle

Admin

The Bach Choir

Instrumentalist

Natalia Lomeiko

Violin

Singer

Grace Davidson

Soprano

Others

Taplow Girls' Choir

Orchestra

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

John Rutter

Joy Sutcliffe

Alto

Nicholas Madden

Tenor

Simon Whiteley

bass

English

Celebrating with John Rutter

Windsor

United Kingdom

Windsor Castle

St George's Chapel

Public

Private

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Serenade to Music

Mass of the Children

Visions and Requiem

Sameer Mohammad

Approved

Conducted by John Rutter himself, this performance with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates two of his pieces with works by another great British composer Vaughan Williams. Both composers have looked to the earlier British greats for tonight’s works.

Both composers have looked to the earlier British greats for tonight’s works. Vaughan Williams’s haunting Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis takes inspiration from Tudor polyphony, whereas Rutter’s Mass of the Children was written in response to a desire to compose a work that would bring children and adults together, in the same way that performances of Britten’s War Requiem had done for him when a school chorister. 

Written in 1938, Serenade to Music was also composed with a great of the British classical music scene in mind: Henry Wood. Vaughan Williams composed it for Wood’s ‘jubilee’ concert to mark the 50th Anniversary of Wood’s first concert.  

John Rutter’s major work Visions completes the programe. Written in 2016 it is based on the theme of Jerusalem, the Holy City of prophetic imaginations.

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