Distant Land: The Orchestra Collection | John Rutter, Andrew Nicholson, ...

Distant Land: The Orchestra Collection | John Rutter, Andrew Nicholson, ... | Exquisite!

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	Distant Land: The Orchestra Collection John Rutter, Andrew Nicholson, ... Decca, 2004 average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An Orchestral Extravaganza

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.

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Exquisite!

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

One of the best

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

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Guilty pleasure

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.

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Tracks
Distant Land - John Rutter, Rutter, John | What Sweeter Music | Blow, blow, thou winter wind | Candlelight | Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace | The Lord bless you and keep you | 1. A-roving | 2. I have a bonnet trimmed with blue | 3. O waly waly | 4. Dashing away | 1. Prelude | 2. Ostinato | 3. Aria | 4. Waltz | 5. Chanson | 6. Rondeau | First Movement. She loves you; Eleanor Rigby; Yesterday; All my loving; Hey Jude | Second Movement. Here, there and everywhere; Something | Third Movement. Can't buy love; The long and winding road

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