Distant Land: the Orchestral Collection [Import]

Track Listings
1. Distant Land (Vocal Version Ft The Cambridge Singers)    
2. 6 Five Meditations For Orchestra (What Sweeter Music)    
3. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (Solo Violin: Rolf Wilson)    
4. Candlelight    
5. Lord, Make Me An Instrument Of Thy Peace    
6. Lord Bless You & Keep You    
7. 10 Suite For Strings (A-Roving    
8. I Have A Bonnet Trimmed With Blue    
9. O Waly Waly (Solo Violin: Rolf Wilson Solo Viola: Andrew Williams)    
10. Dashing Away    
11. 16 Suite Antique (For Flute, Harpsichord & Strings) (Prelude)    
12. Ostinato    
13. 3 Aria    
14. Waltz    
15. Chanson    
16. Rondeau    
17. 19 Beatles Concerto (For Two Pianos & Orchestra Based On Songs By Lennon)    
18. First Movement (She Loves You, Eleanor Rigby, Yesterday, All My Loving, Hey Jude    
19. Second Movement (Here, There & Everywhere, Something)    
20. Third Movement    

Editorial Reviews
Album Details
Includes a Newly Recorded Vocal Version of the Beautiful Title Track "Distant Land", Arranged for Soprano and the Cambridge Singers. "Distant Land" was Rutter's First Orchestral Album, and Showcases a Masterly Grasp of the Genre, Largely Reminiscent of Composers Such as John Berry.

Distant Land: the Orchestral Collection, Music, John Rutter, Classical
Distant Land: The Orchestra Collection
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • One of the best
  • An Orchestral Extravaganza
  • Exquisite!
  • Guilty pleasure
  • Rutter... without words
 Distant Land: The Orchestra Collection

Manufacturer: Decca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000D9YAE
Release Date: 2004-01-13

Tracks:

  1. Distant Land
  2. What Sweeter Music
  3. Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
  4. Candlelight
  5. Lord, Make Me An Instrument Of Thy Peace
  6. The Lord Bless You And Keep You
  7. A-Roving
  8. I Have A Bonnet Trimmed With Blue
  9. O Waly Waly
  10. Dashing Away
  11. 1. Prelude
  12. 2. Ostinato
  13. 3. Aria
  14. 4. Waltz
  15. 5. Chanson
  16. 6. Rondeau
  17. First Movement: She Loves You/Eleanor Rigby/Yesterday/All My Loving/Hey Jude
  18. Second Movement: Here, There And Everywhere/Something
  19. Third Movement: Can't Buy Me Love/The Long And Winding Road

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars One of the best.......2007-01-09

I was thoroughly pleased with this purchase. One of the best CD's in my collection. Very soothing to listen to. I was never a great Beatles fan, but listening to this rendition of their works was extemely pleasing.
I highly recomend it.
Dan Barber

5 out of 5 stars An Orchestral Extravaganza.......2006-07-03

John Rutter is one of today's leading composers and arrangers of music for chorus and orchestra. Some of his best works are featured in this instrumental album played with a lush flavor. But the highlight is a concerto arrangement of top Beatle's songs played in a symphonic mode featuring two pianos. You have the feel of the great master composers and the fun of listening to an unbelievable transition from rock to classical. Eleanor Rigby, Hey Jude, and Can't Buy Me Love sound like they're straight from Carnegie Hall Steinways. A most unusual and beautiful instrumental album.

5 out of 5 stars Exquisite!.......2005-11-30

Ever since I heard the Beatles Concerto being used to help raise money on our local NPR station, I had to have Distant Land. Needless to say, I coudn't get the Orlando NPR people to give me any help, wouldn't answer my eMail requests for the source, so it took some searching to add the disc to my collection.
It's like Sterling on Siver.............CTP

4 out of 5 stars Guilty pleasure.......2005-08-21

I have sung many of Rutter's choral works and arrangements, but I never knew that he had done orchestral works until I heard the Beatles Concerto on the radio. I had to have this album, and I was not disappointed. Distant Land is inspiring, the other works are very pleasurable, and as an old baby boomer Beatles fan, I just love to sing along with the concerto, even if he did steal shamelessly from Chopin and Rachmaninof for some of the piano interludes. I have searched for a copy of the score, but I can't yet find it.

4 out of 5 stars Rutter... without words.......2005-08-05

Beautiful instrumental setting. Distant Land (the first track) is surely the highlight of the album. The Five Meditations are also very pleasant to listen to. The suite for strings is great to if you like a little bit of "Modern influence". The Suite Antique is fun but sometimes it sounds "awkward" as the "baroque style" instrumentation and the "contemporary" musical themes clash from time to time. The Beatles Cto is a curiosity. Great if you like to collect all these type of Beatles arrangements (baroque style, classical style, string quartet settings, etc.)
Distant Land: the Orchestral Collection
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Distant Land: the Orchestral Collection
    John Rutter
    Manufacturer: Ucj/Universal
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B0002847KY
    Release Date: 2004-06-21

    Tracks:

    1. Distant Land (Vocal Version Ft The Cambridge Singers)
    2. 6 Five Meditations For Orchestra (What Sweeter Music)
    3. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (Solo Violin: Rolf Wilson)
    4. Candlelight
    5. Lord, Make Me An Instrument Of Thy Peace
    6. Lord Bless You & Keep You
    7. 10 Suite For Strings (A-Roving
    8. I Have A Bonnet Trimmed With Blue
    9. O Waly Waly (Solo Violin: Rolf Wilson Solo Viola: Andrew Williams)
    10. Dashing Away
    11. 16 Suite Antique (For Flute, Harpsichord & Strings) (Prelude)
    12. Ostinato
    13. 3 Aria
    14. Waltz
    15. Chanson
    16. Rondeau
    17. 19 Beatles Concerto (For Two Pianos & Orchestra Based On Songs By Lennon)
    18. First Movement (She Loves You, Eleanor Rigby, Yesterday, All My Loving, Hey Jude
    19. Second Movement (Here, There & Everywhere, Something)
    20. Third Movement

    Album Details

    Includes a Newly Recorded Vocal Version of the Beautiful Title Track "Distant Land", Arranged for Soprano and the Cambridge Singers. "Distant Land" was Rutter's First Orchestral Album, and Showcases a Masterly Grasp of the Genre, Largely Reminiscent of Composers Such as John Berry.

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