Psalmfest: Vocal score

ISBN 10: 0193380404 ISBN 13: 9780193380400

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1996

Synopsis

The first performance of Psalmfest was given on 8th June 1993 in the Morton Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas. The nine movements of the work were written over a period of twenty years and seven of them have been previously published. For Soprano and Tenor soloists and SATB choir, with Keyboard accompaniment. Duration: 45 minutes

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Review:

Compiled as it is from originally disparate elements, Psalmfest hangs together as a unity remarkably well. This is due partly to selection of material and judicious orchestration - always a Rutter strong point - and partly to the composer's tendency to respond to broadly similar texts in similar ways . . . Of the newly-composed material, the concluding 'O praise the Lord of heaven' (Psalm 148) takes the palm for its sparkling rhythms and effective antiphonal use of double choir . . . The choral parts in Psalmfest are well within the means of any moderately competent choir . . . I see no reason why Psalmfest should not become a popular work with choirs, choral societies and audiences. (Simon Mold, Choir and Organ, July 98)

About the Author:

John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and studied music at Clare College, Cambridge. His compositions embrace choral, orchestral, and instrumental music, and he has edited or co-edited various choral anthologies, including four Carols for Choirs volumes with Sir David Willcocks and the Oxford Choral Classics series. From 1975 to 1979 he was Director of Music at Clare College, and in 1981 he formed his own choir, the Cambridge Singers. He now divides his time between composition and conducting and is sought after as a guest conductor for the world's leading choirs and orchestras.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0193380404
• ISBN 13: 9780193380400
• Binding: Sheet music
• Number of pages: 96