Manchester Camerata, John Rutter
Release Date: 03 November 2023
Label: Collegium Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 040888040224
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
Tranquillity is a state of mind. You might be more likely to describe a favourite countryside scene rather than a person as 'tranquil', but you are really describing the effect it has on you.
You feel calm, serene, still, at peace, relaxed, untroubled, chilled-out... perhaps we have so many different words for this state of mind because it is so important, and yet so elusive in an often noisy, frantic world.
Music has an extraordinary power to evoke tranquillity - as is revealed in the eleven pieces I have chosen to make up this collection. Ten of them happen to be among my personal favourites, drawn from the music of seven composers, plus the treasure trove of anonymous folk music, and I have added an orchestral version of my choral setting of Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace, a text formerly believed to be by St Francis of Assisi.
- John Rutter
"You can't really fault an album called Classical Tranquillity for doing exactly what it says on the tin. […] fine craftmanship of John Rutter's orchestral arrangements." – BBC Music Magazine
Tracklisting
John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers, Wayne Marshall (organ)
John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia
John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers and Orchestra
John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Patricia Forbes (soprano)
John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, Melanie Marshall (mezzo-soprano)
John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers, Helen Gough (baroque cello), William Hunt (violone), Wayne Mars
Hans-Jurg Strub; Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen; Christian Erny
Sinfonieorchester Gottingen
London Sinfonietta; David Atherton
Antal Dorati; Philharmonia Hungarica
Karel Ancerl; Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Yoichi Sugiyama
David Rabinovich
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
