New Album Releases: END OF MY DAYS (Ruby Hughes & Manchester Collective)

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Artist:
Ruby Hughes
Manchester Collective

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
66:20

Record Label:
BIS Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
January 19, 2024




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Product Description: The inspiration for this album came about from Ruby Hughes’ first collaboration with the Manchester Collective in the spring of 2020. During the first Covid lockdown, they built the programme of this recital for the purpose of touring the UK and uplifting their audiences at a time when we were all being confronted by challenging notions of mortality and isolation. As artists, they asked themselves what music might attend to the prevailing concerns of this time. Their answers came in the form of this offering. The title of this album, End of My Days, comes from Errollyn Wallen’s song; a resounding celebration of life that embraces death without regret or sadness but with great verve and acceptance. The other songs, each in its own way, evoke silence and separation, but also love and hope and even the reassurance that we will return whence we came and light shall lift us into eternity. The concluding song, Deborah Pritchard’s Peace, is a message of hope, willingly received as the world emerged out of lockdown in 2021. Luminous tranquillity moves us into the light, towards eternity.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Meet Me in the Green Glen (04:16)

2 . Valencia Manchester Collective (05:30)

3 . Along the Field: No. 2, Along the Field As We Came By (04:20)

4 . Akhmatova Songs: No. 1, Dante (02:51)

5 . Akhmatova Songs: No. 3, Boris Pasternak (02:18)

6 . Akhmatova Songs: No. 4, Couplet (02:14)

7 . 2 .Dowland Laments (Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by David Bruce): No. 1, Go Crystal Tears (03:58)

8 . 2 .Dowland Laments (Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by David Bruce): No. 2, Flow My Tears (07:05)

9 . a Day Dawn (Arr. for String Quartet by Donald Grant) Manchester Collective (04:01)

10 . 2 .Mélodies hébraïques: No. 1, Kaddisch (Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by Simon Parkin) (05:48)

11 . Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals?: No. 5, End of My Days (05:25)

12 . 3 .Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 .(Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by Jake Heggie): No. 1, La flûte de Pan (02:55)

13 . 3 .Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 .(Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by Jake Heggie): No. 2, La chevelure (03:57)

14 . 3 .Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 .(Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by Jake Heggie): No. 3, Le tombeau des naïades (03:05)

15 . Symphony No. 2 .in C Major "Resurrection": IV. Urlicht (Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by Manchester Collective) (05:15)

16 .Peace (03:13)

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