Title: Great performance as always - but why bother?
Product review: I don't want to get off on the wrong foot here - I was once a die-hard John Rutter fan. But, things have changed. His music, though beautiful and always extremely well performed, is just garbage. This is the most insipid collection to date (unless you consider the Requiem a collection). His music from his college years (The Falcon comes to mind) is wonderfully engaging: Original, thoughtful, moving - the whole kit-and-kaboodle. But it seems like his music from the late 60's on is just pandering to the populous who would really rather be listening to some guitar mass. Rutter is obviously too talented a composer and musician to be stuck in this syncopated D Major poppy schleck. We (serious clssical musicians) love you and wish you the best on your journey back to the fold of "taste".
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