End of My Days / Hughes, Manchester Collective

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BIS
Release Date
January 19, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Traditional, Claude Debussy, John Dowland, Brian Elias, Gustav Mahler, Deborah Pritchard, Maurice Ra
    • PERFORMER
      Ruby Hughes, Manchester Collective
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 19, 2024
    • UPC
      7318599926285
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2628
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Art Song
    Works ⌄

    1. 5 Songs to Poems by John Clare: No. 1. Meet Me In The Green Glen

      Composer: Brian Elias

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

    2. Valencia

      Composer: Caroline Shaw

      Ensemble: Manchester Collective

    3. Along the Field: No. 2. Along the Field

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Rakhi Singh

    4. No. 1. Dante

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Manchester Collective

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

    5. No. 3. Boris Pasternak

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Manchester Collective

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

    6. No. 4. Couplet

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Manchester Collective

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

    7. Book of Songs, Book 1: Go, crystal tears (arr. D. Bruce for voice and string quartet)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Ensemble: Manchester Collective

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

    8. Book of Songs, Book 2: Flow my tears (arr. D. Bruce for voice and string quartet)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Ensemble: Manchester Collective

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

    9. Da Day Dawn (arr. D. Grant for string quartet)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Manchester Collective

    10. 2 Mélodies hébraïques: No. 1. Kaddisch (arr. S. Parkin for voice and string quartet)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Manchester Collective

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

    11. Are You Worried about the Rising Cost of Funerals?: No. 5. End of my days

      Composer: Errollyn Wallen

      Ensemble: Manchester Collective

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

    12. No. 1. La flûte de Pan

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Manchester Collective

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

    13. No. 2. La chevelure

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Manchester Collective

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

    14. No. 3. Le tombeau des naïades

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Manchester Collective

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

    15. Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Resurrection": IV. Urlicht (arr. Manchester Collective for voice and string quartet)

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Ensemble: Manchester Collective

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

    16. Peace

      Composer: Deborah Pritchard

      Ensemble: Manchester Collective

      Performer: Ruby Hughes


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.