''Fancies'' is a cycle of six choral settings by

John Rutter Sir John Milford Rutter (born 24 September 1945) is an English composer, conductor, editor, arranger, and record producer, mainly of choral music. Biography Born on 24 September 1945 in London, the son of an industrial chemist and his wife, R ...

, created around whimsical themes and based on text from poets such as

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...

Thomas Campion Thomas Campion (sometimes spelled Campian; 12 February 1567 – 1 March 1620) was an English composer, poet, and physician. He was born in London, educated at Cambridge, and studied law in Gray's Inn. He wrote over a hundred lute songs, masque ...

(1567–1620),

Edward Lear Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limerick (poetry), limericks, a form he popularised. ...

(1812–1888) and others. The collection was originally written in 1971. Rutter recorded a recording with other compositions which was rereleased in 2005.

Track listing

''Fancies'' – for choir and

chamber orchestra Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...

:(1) Tell me, where is fancy bred – 1:44 :(2) There is a garden in her face – 3:52 :(3) The urchins' song – 2:00 :(4) Riddle song – 3:13 :(5) Midnight's bell – 2:16 :(6) The bellman's song – 2:45 ::Baritone solo: Simon Davies '' Suite Antique'' - for

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

harpsichord A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard, keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one ...

and strings By John Rutter Flute: Duke Dobing, Harpsichord: Wayne Marshall :(1) Prelude – 3:20 :(2) Ostinato – 1:37 :(3) Aria – 3:03 :(4) Waltz – 3:02 :(5)Chanson – 3:10 :(6) Rondeau – 2:43 '' Five Childhood Lyrics'' – for unaccompanied choir By John Rutter :(1) Monday's child – 2:53 :(2) The owl and the pussy-cat – 1:42 :(3) Windy nights – 1:08 :(4) Matthew, Mark, Luke and John – 1:46 ::Soprano solo: Caroline Ashton :(5) Sing a song of sixpence 1:42 ''When Icicles Hang'' – for choir and orchestra By John Rutter :(1) Icicles – 3:54 :(2) Winter nights – 2:30 :(3) Good ale – 2:43 :(4) Blow, blow, thou winter wind – 3:52 :(5) Winter awakeneth all my care – 5:53 ::Tenor solo: Nicholas Wilson, Flute: Duke Dobing :(6) Hay, ay – 2:21

References

External links

2005 classical albums Choral compositions by John Rutter Musical settings of poems by William Shakespeare {{Classical-album-stub