• Name: John Rutter
• Birthday: 09/24/1945
• Birth Place: London, England
• Period: Contemporary
• Genre: Classical

Title	Release
The Sacred Flame	2009
Ultimate Collection	2008
Handel: Messiah W	2007
Candlelight: Seasonal Reflections and Celebrations W	2006
Gloria: The Sacred Music of John Rutter W	2005
Sea Change: The Choral Music of Richard Rodney Bennett [Hybrid SACD] W	2005
The Spring of Thyme: Traditional Songs W	2005
Three Musical Fables	2004
John Rutter Christmas Album W	2002
Poulenc: Sacred Music	2002
William Byrd: Ave Verum Corpus; Motets and Anthems W	2002
Requiem W	1997
A Banquet of Voices	1994
G. P. da Palestrina: The Song of Songs	1994
The Johann Sebastian Bach Collection	1992
John Rutter: Requiem & Magnificat WA	1991
The Handel Collection	1990
Ave Verum Corpus: Motets and Anthems of William Byrd	1989
Carols From Clare College WA	1988
Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers: English Madrigals WA	1987
The Mozart Collection	1986
Ave Gracia Plena: Music in Honor of the Virgin Mary
Hail! Queen of Heaven: Music in Honour of the Virgin Mary
There Is Sweet Music
(3) Arise, Shine, anthem for choir & organ	2002
Toccata in Seven, for organ	2002
A Choral Amen, for chorus & orchestra	2000
(7) A Choral Fanfare
(8) A Clare Benediction, for chorus
A crown of glory WA	2004
(25) A Gaelic Blessing ("Deep Peace"), for chorus & orchestra	1991
(9) A Prayer of St. Patrick for chorus
(3) All Creatures of Our God and King for chorus, organ & orchestra
(13) All Things Bright and Beautiful for chorus & orchestra
(2) American Lyrics (3) for SATB & piano
American Miniatures (3), for flute & clarinet	2001
(11) Angels' Carol WA
Anthem Prayer of St. Francis, for chorus & organ	1982
(8) As the Bridegroom To His Chosen for chorus & strings	2003
Ave Maria, for chorus & orchestra WA	2008
Bang!, opera in 2 acts
(5) Be Thou My Vision for chorus, organ & orchestra
(2) Beatles Concerto, for 2 pianos & orchestra	2003
(2) Behold, the Tabernacle of God for chorus & orchestra	1991
(5) Birthday Madrigals, for choir, double bass & piano	1996
(3) Birthday Madrigals, No.1, "It was a lover and his lass" for a cappella chorus	2000
(2) Birthday Madrigals, No.2, "Draw on sweet night" for chorus	1997
Birthday Madrigals, No.3, "Come live with me" for chorus	2000
(2) Birthday Madrigals, No.4, "My true love hath my heart" for chorus	1997
Birthday Madrigals, No.5, "When daisies pied" for chorus	2000
(3) Brother Heinrich's Christmas, for narrator, chorus & orchestra
(19) Candlelight Carol, for chorus & organ
(5) Cantate Domino WA	1997
Cantus WA	1997
(3) Carol of the Children	1998
(6) Childhood Lyrics (5) for unaccompanied choir	1991
(3) Christ the Lord Is Risen Again for chorus & orchestra
(6) Christmas Lullaby	2008
(4) Come Down, O Love divine, for chorus	2001
(2) Cradle Song, for chorus WA
(5) Dancing Day, cycle of Christmas carols	2008
Dashing away with the smoothing iron	1992
Deck the hall, for chorus	2000
(4) Distant Land (A Prayer for Freedom), for chorus
(7) Donkey Carol	1995
(4) Dormi Jesu (The Virgin's Cradle Hymn)	2001
Eternal God	2000
(3) Fancies, a cycle of choral settings with small orchestra	1991
Fancies, for choir & chamber orchestra WA	1991
(2) Feel the Spirit, a cycle of spirituals for mezzo-soprano, choir & orchestra	2001
Five Meditations for Orchestra	2003
(2) Flemish Carol, arr. for choir ("A Little child on the earth has been born")
(21) For the Beauty of the Earth, for chorus & orchestra
(15) Gloria for chorus & brass ensemble	1995

John Rutter is one of England's best-known composers of the late twentieth century, as well as a widely respected choral conductor and music scholar and editor. While his choral works (including the Te Deum, Magnificat, and Requiem) are the most familiar, he has also written instrumental works, including a piano concerto, the Suite Antique for flute, harpsichord, and strings, and two children's operas.

Musically he could be characterized as a reactionary, as his works show very distinct influences from the past and show almost no signs of progressivism or even contemporary influences. He has a strong sense of the English musical traditions, and some of the more significant English musical influences on his work include Ralph Vaughn Williams, William Walton, and Benjamin Britten. Non-English influences include Fauré, Gregorian chant, and Bach, and his Suite Antique is a direct tribute to the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, written for the same instruments and in the same style. However, his music's immediate accessibility, being both tuneful and expressive, and its wide general appeal have still earned him a place in the English musical tradition, though not the place of an innovator, and while he is most popular in England and the United States, his music is performed worldwide.

He began his musical career as a member of the Highgate School chorus, continued to study organ, and went on to Cambridge University, where he studied at Clare College. At the age of 30, in 1975, he returned to Clare, where he was director of music. In 1979, however, he left the position in order to give more attention to composing and to conducting, though he still contributed to the study of choral music, acting as an editor in the -Carols for Choirs and -Oxford Choral Classics series. He formed the Cambridge Singers in 1981, though once they were established as a leading chamber choir, he left off leadership of the group, again in order to concentrate on composing and conducting. In 1985, his Requiem had its first performance, followed in 1990 by his Magnificat and his 1993 Psalmfest. In 1996, he was awarded a Lambeth Doctorate of Music by the Archbishop of Canterbury, for his services to church music. In addition to all of these activities, he manages a CD label, Collegium Records, largely devoted to his own music. This was more or less by chance; he had no intention of doing so until an established label offered him a contract; the terms struck him as being so unsatisfactory that he decided to do it himself. ~ Anne Feeney, All Music Guide