Ruby Hughes, Manchester Collective – End of My Days (2024) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

Ruby Hughes, Manchester Collective – End of My Days (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:09 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS

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.

Tracklist:

1-01. Ruby Hughes – Meet Me in the Green Glen (04:16)
1-02. Manchester Collective – Valencia (05:29)
1-03. Ruby Hughes – Along the Field: No. 2, Along the Field As We Came By (04:20)
1-04. Ruby Hughes – Akhmatova Songs: No. 1, Dante (02:50)
1-05. Ruby Hughes – Akhmatova Songs: No. 3, Boris Pasternak (02:17)
1-06. Ruby Hughes – Akhmatova Songs: No. 4, Couplet (02:13)
1-07. Ruby Hughes – 2 Dowland Laments (Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by David Bruce): No. 1, Go Crystal Tears (03:57)
1-08. Ruby Hughes – 2 Dowland Laments (Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by David Bruce): No. 2, Flow My Tears (07:04)
1-09. Manchester Collective – Da Day Dawn (Arr. for String Quartet by Donald Grant) (04:00)
1-10. Ruby Hughes – 2 Mélodies hébraïques: No. 1, Kaddisch (Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by Simon Parkin) (05:47)
1-11. Ruby Hughes – Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals?: No. 5, End of My Days (05:24)
1-12. Ruby Hughes – 3 Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 (Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by Jake Heggie): No. 1, La flûte de Pan (02:54)
1-13. Ruby Hughes – 3 Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 (Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by Jake Heggie): No. 2, La chevelure (03:56)
1-14. Ruby Hughes – 3 Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 (Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by Jake Heggie): No. 3, Le tombeau des naïades (03:05)
1-15. Ruby Hughes – Symphony No. 2 in C Major “Resurrection”: IV. Urlicht (Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by Manchester Collective) (05:15)
1-16. Ruby Hughes – Peace (03:13)

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