Introduction - John Rutter, Richard Hickox, Richard Baker, The King's Singers, CLS

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John Rutter

The Wind in the Willows: Introduction
From the album ‘Three Musical Fables'

Composer John Rutter
Conductor Richard Hickox
Narrator Richard Baker
Orchestra City of London Sinfonia
Choir The King's Singers

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LYRICS:
All: Listen to the sound of the wind in the willows
Whispering through the branches and the leaves.
Come away and listen to a story of long ago and far away;
When the river murmured its magical music to the scented breeze.
Listen to the echo of soft distant voices calling us away.

Narrator: ‘Hang spring cleaning,’ said Mole, flinging down his whitewash brush. ‘Bother and blow,’ said Mole, and he bolted out of the house, without even waiting to put on his coat. Something up above was calling him into the sunlight and away . . . across the meadows and alongside the copses . . . trotting along the river bank where, all of a sudden, he sat down, entranced and bewitched. As he sat on the grass and looked across the river, he became aware of a bright little star winking at him from the opposite bank. The star became an eye, and then there was another eye . . . then a small brown face . . . with whiskers.
(Words by David Grant)

Three Musical Fables
This album brings together three musical fables written by John Rutter: The Reluctant Dragon; The Wind in the Willows; and Brother Heinrich’s Christmas (built around the legend that In dulci jubilo was first sung by angels who appeared to a medieval monk.)

John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1981) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.

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