Reflections on Rutter’s Requiem

John Rutter decided to write a requiem, a desire fueled by his love for the requiem by Gabriel Fauré and also by the death of his father. Rutter got to work on the piece, but, as he says, “illness intervened, which was slightly worrying when I thought of poor Mozart writing his Requiem and dying before he could finish it. Luckily, however, I got better.”

This book is for singers and listeners to understand and appreciate how Rutter’s Requiem came to be and what the lyrics mean.

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