I wonder as I wander (Rütti) - from SIGCD458 - Hyperion Records

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Track(s) taken from SIGCD458

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I wonder as I wander

composer

Carl Rütti (b1949)

1996

author of text

Anonymous - traditional

St John's College Choir Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha (conductor), Joseph Wicks (organ)

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Recording details: January 2016
St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Produced by Chris Hazell
Engineered by Simon Eadon
Release date: November 2016
Total duration: 1 minutes 46 seconds

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Reviews

'This is a highly enjoyable and superbly performed Christmas collection. It respects the traditions of Christmas music but provides plenty of examples of how composers are developing that tradition in exciting ways' (MusicWeb International)

Introduction
English

The words of I wonder as I wander were collected by the American composer and song collector John Jacob Niles from verses sung to him by a young woman in Murphy, North Carolina. So, it feels rather appropriate that this 1996 setting by the Swiss composer Carl Rütti should have melded the English choral tradition with the rhythms and harmonies of jazz and the blues.

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