Visions

"Visions is a strikingly beautiful piece, lovingly played and artfully executed ... I think the appeal of the Requiem is Rutter's conducting. The work has plenty of energy, and it's not a traditional requiem, but rather texts selected by the composer. It is, in Rutter's words, intimate rather than grand ... Highly recommended!".

"The tone of Visions is often lingeringly elegiac, and may well surprise those who associate Rutter primarily with facile tunefulness and chirpy carols ... The recording [of the Requiem] has greater clarity and amplitude, and both the singing and playing have a touch more incisiveness and assurance. In Alice Halstead Rutter continues to favour a soprano with the timbre of a boy treble, and her solos have an innocent fragility which is touching".