Fancies is a musical collection of four short pieces by John Rutter

John Rutter

John Milford Rutter CBE is a British composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer, mainly of choral music.-Biography:Born in London, Rutter was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener. He read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the...

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

Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion was an English composer, poet and physician. He wrote over a hundred lute songs; masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music.-Life:...

 (1567–1620), Edward Lear

Edward Lear

Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised.-Biography:...

 (1812–1888) and others. The collection was originally written in 1971 and remastered in 2005.

Track listing

Fancies – for choir and chamber orchestra  Tell me, where is fancy bred – 1:44 There is a garden in her face – 3:52 The urchins' song – 2:00 Riddle song – 3:13 Midnight's bell – 2:16 The bellman's song – 2:45

Baritone solo: Simon Davies

Suite Antique - for flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

, harpsichord

Harpsichord

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...

and strings
By John Rutter
Flute: Duke Dobing, Harpsichord: Wayne Marshall Prelude – 3:20 Ostinato – 1:37 Aria – 3:03 Waltz – 3:02Chanson – 3:10 Rondeau – 2:43

Five Childhood Lyrics – for unaccompanied choir
By John Rutter Monday's child – 2:53 The owl and the pussy-cat – 1:42 Windy nights – 1:08 Matthew, Mark, Luke and John – 1:46

Soprano solo: Caroline Ashton Sing a song of sixpence 1:42

When Icicles Hang – for choir and orchestra
By John Rutter Icicles – 3:54 Winter nights – 2:30 Good ale – 2:43 Blow, blow, thou winter wind – 3:52 Winter awakeneth all my care – 5:53

Tenor solo: Nicholas Wilson, Flute: Duke Dobing Hay, ay – 2:21