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| ARTIST: | Gregorian Chant, William Byrd, John Taverner, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Samuel Scheidt, John Sheppard, Maurice Durufle, Robert White, Cambridge Singers, Gerald Finley |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | American Gramaphone |
| TYPE: | Choral, Classical, Classical Composers, Jazz Music, Miscellaneous Music, Miscellaneous Vocal Music, Modern Motet, Motet, New Age Music, Part Song/Glee/Music for Unaccompanied Voices, Renaissance Mass, Renaissance Motet, Sacred Choral Music, Vocal, Western European Chant |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| MPN: | 588 |
| TRACKS: | Music Of The Morning Rite: a. Alleluia - b. Haec Dies, Music Of The Morning Rite: Easter Sequence, Dum Transisset Sabbatum, Sanctus, Exsultate Deo, a. Easter Acclamations b. Surrexit Christus Hodie, Music Of The Evening Rite: Before The Ending Of The Day, Music Of The Evening Rite: In Pace, Music Of The Evening Rite: Into Thy Hands, O Lord, Music Of The Evening Rite: Ubi Caritas, Music Of The Evening Rite: Keep Me As The Apple Of An Eye And Nunc Dimittisa, Music Of The Evening Rite: O Christ, Who Art The Light And Day, Music Of The Evening Rite: a. We Will Lay Us Down In Peace b. Libera Nos, Salva Nos |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 012805058827 |
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Customer Reviews of Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Choral work at it's finest. I really enjoyed this work. I was first introduced to this title through American Gramophone's website and was also my first introduction in the works of John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers. You do not have be religious to enjoy this work. I find the music uplifting and very sublime. I have listened to it many times, and I find that my favorite period to play it is in the morning hours. . <
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>I have since purchased many other Rutter titles including "Images of Christ", and more recently "Lighten our Darkness"
Love it
13 years ago, I had the tape of brother sun, sister moon and as a teenager and I would play it every night as I slept, I loved it. I dont know what happened to it and I have ever sence been looking for it, and I just baught the CD and am so excited.
Light and shadows
Recorded in the Great Hall of University College School, London, the Cambridge Singers under the direction of John Rutter produced a true masterpiece in 'Brother Sun, Sister Moon' in 1988. The title derives from a famous prayer by St. Francis of Assisi, and is inspired by liturgical music from (or derivative of) the Middle Ages and Renaissance polyphony and Gregorian chant. The music is meditative, uplifting, and elegant in simplicity and stunning vocal quality.
--Brother Sun--
The first half of the disc is largely composed of pieces from the liturgical Morning Prayer cycle, concentrating on texts from Easter, the most important of Christian days. From the Alleluia to the Acclamations and Surrexit Christus Hodie (Christ is risen today), the flow from Gregorian Chant to compositions by Byrd, Taverner and Palestrina (giants of this type of music) in increasing energy and glory, as befits both a Morning service (time to wake up!) as well as a celebration of the resurrection of Christ. Perhaps of particular note here is the cantoring of bass Gerald Finley in the Easter Acclamations.
--Sister Moon--
The second half of the disc concentrates on music of the evening; in particular, the Compline service, a service of unwinding and sombre meditation with which monastic communities conclude their days of work and worship. Many churches have reincorporated Compline into a regular cycle of services; some have even done so as a result of exposure to this recording. The music here is softer and less energetic than that of Morning prayer. This includes music from Whyte and Sheppard (also masters of the Medieval-to-Renaissance liturgical polyphony) as well as a brilliant motet by twentieth century composer Duruflé for the Ubi Caritas.
--Liner Notes--
The notes for this recording include the titles and words, in both Latin and English, for each of the pieces recorded here. It has an excerpt from a prayer by St. Francis, and a basic introduction to the music relating it historically and liturgically. One thing conspicuously missing is any biographical information about John Rutter, or any descriptive information about the Cambridge Singers apart from the basic listing of singers.
--John Rutter--
Rutter was born in London and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. This was where his career as a composer, arranger and conductor began. His early work was with groups at King's College Chapel at Cambridge as well as the Bath Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked for the BBC providing music for educational series such as 'The Archaeology of the Bible Lands', until in 1979 he began forming the Cambridge Singers, and has continued a remarkable career of performance and recording as their director ever since.
--The Cambridge Singers--
The Cambridge Singers are a mixed choir of voices, many of whom were members of choir of Rutter's college, Clare College, Cambridge. While they specialise in English and Latin liturgical pieces, they have a wide range of recordings that span from modern compositions (including a remarkable requiem by Rutter) to English folk songs of the Middle Ages. For this particular recording, the choir consisted of eleven sopranos, six altos, six tenors, and six basses.