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, 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 Marshall (chamber organ)
John Rutter, Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia
Manchester Camerata, John Rutter
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Peter Szilvay, Aage Richard Meyer, Cam Kjoll, Ruth Potter
Joshua Bell
Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen
Eric Hoeprich, Teunis van der Zwart, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen
Marcel Ponseele, Il Gardellino
James Ross, Kent Sinfonia, Eloise Irving, Malcolm Riley
Michael Tilson Thomas
