by Neil Fisher [Times Online, 28 September 2005]

Would you invite a guest to your 60th-birthday party if you were worried that they might upstage you? Nor me. But then John Rutter devotees probably don’t think he is upstageable, and they have some pretty powerful reasons to argue their case. Where would so many choirs of Britain and America be without his eminently singable music? What would happen to the classical record industry without his seemingly unshakeable commercial appeal?