John Rutter and Manchester Camerata – Classical Tranquillity (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:43 minutes | 790 MB | Genre: Classical
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We’re delighted to share news of John Rutter’s first orchestral album for several years: Classical Tranquillity, recorded with Manchester Camerata. The new release comprises tranquil classical music by a selection of composers, including J.S. Bach, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Erik Satie, newly arranged and orchestrated by John Rutter. There’s also an orchestral version of John’s choral setting of Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
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The Cambridge Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & John Rutter – I Sing of a Maiden: 5 New Carols by John Rutter (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 21:20 minutes | 348 MB | Genre: Classical
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John Rutter’s glorious stream of Christmas miniatures has made him, for many, an essential ingredient in the festive season. The composer and conductor wrote what is probably his most popular piece, “Shepherd’s Pipe Carol,” while still an 18-year-old undergraduate at Cambridge—and he has never looked back. “Once I started writing carols, somehow it seemed difficult to stop,” Rutter tells Apple Music. “I’ve been doing it ever since.” Realizing that he had a “backlog” of them led him to I Sing of a Maiden, an EP of five new pieces recorded in July 2021. “I’m asked, ‘Do you still enjoy Christmas?’ And actually, I sincerely do,” says Rutter. “Christmas carols are a resilient form of art—folk art, as I’ve often suggested—that have attracted some extraordinarily fine composers. They were adding their little tile to a centuries-old mosaic of devotion, praise, joy, prayer, and celebration. It all makes up that extraordinary season of the year that we call Christmas.”
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Aurora Orchestra, John Rutter – Rutter: Visions & Requiem (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:45 minutes | 926 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
This new album couples John Rutter’s most recent work with one of his most popular. Visions celebrates the utopian ideal of heavenly peace in in four movements written specially for the solo violin of Kerson Leong, string ensemble and the boy choristers of the Temple Church choir. The Requiem of 1985 receives a vital new recording under the guidance of its composer.
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