Discography
73
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Fauré: Requiem & Other Sacred Music
2010 · 16 tracks
Blessing
2012
The Holly and the Ivy
1979
Christmas Day with John Rutter
2025
Eternal Light (Compilation)
2025
Relaxing Music from John Rutter & The Cambridge Singers (Compilation)
2025
Uplifting and Motivational Music from John Rutter & The Cambridge Singers (Compilation)
2025
Music for Summer from John Rutter & The Cambridge Singers (Compilation)
2025
Reflections
2025
Classical Hidden Gems, Vol. 8
2025
Music for Advent
2025
In the Poet's Garden
2025
Celebrating 40 Years
2025
In Dulci Jubilo: A Festival of Christmas
2024
The English Anthem 8
2024
Advent at St Paul's
2024
The Music of St Paul's Cathedral
2024
Classical Tranquillity
2023
John Rutter: Music for Christmas
2023
John Rutter: Gloria & Other Sacred Music
2023
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56
2022
Work from Home with Chilled Choir
2020
Stanford & Howells Remembered
2020
Christmas Night: Carols of the Nativity (Remastered 2020)
2020
A Banquet of Voices
2020
John Rutter: Magnificat
2017
John Rutter: Visions & Requiem
2016
Rutter: The Gift of Life
2015
A Double Celebration
2014
O Praise the Lord of Heaven
2013
Christmas Star: A Christmas Festival
2013
This Is the Day: Music on Royal Occasions
2012
A Song in Season
2012
Hail, Gladdening Light: Music of the English Church
2011
The Colors Of Christmas
2011
Sing, Ye Heavens: Hymns for All Time
2011
Poulenc: Sacred Music
2011
There Is Sweet Music: English Choral Songs, 1890-1950
2011
Cambridge Singers Christmas Album
2011
Lighten Our Darkness: Music for the Close of Day
2011
A Christmas Festival
2011
The Colours Of Christmas
2011
Rutter: Fancies
2011
Candlelight: Seasonal Reflections & Celebrations
2011
Sea Change: The Choral Music of Richard Rodney Bennett
2011
Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers: Elizabethan Madrigals
2011
The John Rutter Christmas Album
2011
Faire Is the Heaven: Music Of the English Church
2011
Gloria: The Sacred Music Of John Rutter
2011
Cambridge Singers A Cappella
2011
The Sacred Flame
2011
Hail! Queen of Heaven: Music in Honour of the Virgin Mary
2011
Treasures of English Church Music
2011
The original Carols from Clare
2010
The Very Best of John Rutter
2008
The Sprig of Thyme
2005
Be Thou My Vision: Sacred Music by John Rutter
2004
Rutter: Mass of the Children & Other Works
2003
Ave verum corpus: Motets & Anthems of William Byrd
2002
Rutter: Requiem & Magnificat
2001
Rutter: Te Deum & Other Church Music
2001
Rutter & Others: Choral Works
2001
Rutter: Feel the Spirit / Birthday Madrigals / Shearing: Songs and Sonnets
2001
The Magic Of Christmas
2000
English String Miniatures, Volume 1
2000
Christmas Star: Carols for The Christmas Season
1997
Stillness and Sweet Harmony
1996
Images of Christ
1995
Fancies
1992
Ave Verum Corpus: Motets and Anthems
1989
Carols from Clare
1988
Rutter: Carols from Clare
1988
The Beatles Concerto / Six Beatles Impressions
1979
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Singles & EPs
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London Town: A choral celebration: Lines written in the Tower of London
Single · 2025
When Music Sounds
Single · 2025
Rutter: 4 Miniatures for Orchestra: No. 3, Lullaby
Single · 2025
Rutter: 4 Miniatures for Orchestra: No. 4, Dance to Your Daddy
Single · 2025
Rutter: Celebration Overture
Single · 2025
She moved through the fair
Single · 2023
Lead, Kindly Light
Single · 2021
I Sing of a Maiden: 5 New Carols by John Rutter
EP · 2021
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Carol of the ChildrenArcangelo Corelli · Christmas Through the Ages
Brother Heinrich's Christmas: No. 1, IntroductionThe King's Singers · 3 Musical Fables- Brother Heinrich's Christmas: No. 2, Sigismund Sings in the Abbey ChoirThe King's Singers · 3 Musical Fables
- Brother Heinrich's Christmas: No. 3, Sigismund Is DismissedThe King's Singers · 3 Musical Fables
- Brother Heinrich's Christmas: No. 4, Brother Heinrich and the New CarolThe King's Singers · 3 Musical Fables
- Brother Heinrich's Christmas: No. 5, The Angels Appear on Christmas EveThe King's Singers · 3 Musical Fables
- Brother Heinrich's Christmas: No. 6, Brother Heinrich Writes Down the Angels' CarolThe King's Singers · 3 Musical Fables
- Brother Heinrich's Christmas: No. 8, The Angels' Carol and Christmas DinnerThe King's Singers · 3 Musical Fables
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About
John Milford Rutter CBE (born 24 September 1945) is an English composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer, mainly of choral music. Born in London, the son of an industrial chemist and his wife, Rutter grew up living over the Globe pub on London's Marylebone Road. He was educated at Highgate School where fellow pupils included John Tavener, Howard Shelley, Brian Chapple and Nicholas Snowman, and as a chorister there took part in the first (1963) recording of Britten's War Requiem under the composer's baton. He then read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the choir. While still an undergraduate he had his first compositions published, including the "Shepherd's Pipe Carol" which he had written aged 18. He served as director of music at Clare College from 1975 to 1979 and led the choir to international prominence.
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In 1981, Rutter founded his own choir, the Cambridge Singers, which he conducts and with which he has made many recordings of sacred choral repertoire (including his own works), particularly under his own label Collegium Records. He resides at Hemingford Abbots in Cambridgeshire and frequently conducts many choirs and orchestras around the world. In 1980, he was made an honorary Fellow of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, and in 1988 a Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians. In 1996, the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred a Lambeth Doctorate of Music upon him in recognition of his contribution to church music. In 2008, he was made an honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple while playing a significant role in the 2008 Temple Festival. From 1985 to 1992, Rutter suffered severely from myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, or chronic fatigue syndrome), which restricted his output; after 1985 he stopped writing music on commission, as he was unable to guarantee meeting deadlines. Rutter also works as an arranger and editor. As a young man he collaborated with Sir David Willcocks on five volumes of the extraordinarily successful Carols for Choirs anthology series. He was inducted as a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity in 1985. Rutter is also a Vice President of the Joyful Company of Singers, and is President of The Bach Choir.
John Rutter in brief
- How many John Rutter releases are on Riffiter?
- 81 releases are catalogued, spanning 1979 to 2025.
- What is the most recent John Rutter release on Riffiter?
- Christmas Day with John Rutter, released in 2025.