Twelve arrangements for unaccompanied SATB of folk-songs from the British Isles and North America

John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and studied music at Clare College, Cambridge. His compositions embrace choral, orchestral, and instrumental music, and he has edited or co-edited various choral anthologies, including four Carols for Choirs volumes with Sir David Willcocks and the Oxford Choral Classics series. From 1975 to 1979 he was Director of Music at Clare College, and in 1981 he formed his own choir, the Cambridge Singers. He now divides his time between composition and conducting and is sought after as a guest conductor for the world's leading choirs and orchestras.

Among the leaves so green, O ; She's like the Swallow ; Londonderry Air ; My sweetheart's like Venus ; Bushes and briars ; Black sheep ; Dashing away with the smoothing iron ; O waly, waly ; Sourwood mountain ; Greensleeves ; Early one morning ; Bobby Shaftoe