Tranquillity Voices Of Deep Calm

Tranquillity Voices Of Deep Calm

Universal Music presents Tranquillity – Voices of Deep Calm, through the Decca Label. The album features a beautiful new composition by Royal Wedding composer, Paul Mealor. Mealor, whose music is characterised by very low bass notes, has written a new choral work entitled: De Profundis, which features a low E (an extremely low note over two octaves below middle C). The note, an -E' (329 Hertz), is six notes below the lowest note ever written for a choral piece (from Rachmaninov's -Vespers' – a B flat).

'My setting of De Profundis (-Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord') calls for a rich and powerful voice; a voice that can not only touch the heart with its sincerity and truth, but also make every fabric of the human body resonate as it plunges into the very lowest parts of the vocal spectrum." - Paul Mealor, composer.

On hearing the sound of the St. Petersburg Chamber Choir for the first time, Director of A&R at Decca Records UK Tom Lewis said: 'it's like an immediate escape from the challenges, stresses, noise and pace of modern living. You're given a glimpse of a secret world of peace and calm."

Tranquillity - Voices Of Deep Calm, produced by Grammy-nominated Anna Barry, presents a programme of the purest form of Russian Orthodox music – with its meditative quality bringing it into the homes of those who wouldn't normally hear it. This sound never fails to create a feeling of calm serenity. It expresses the peace people yearn for in this stressful world – a simple beauty in music that is timeless.

Album Tracklisting:
1. We Praise Thee: Sergei Rachmaninov, Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op.31
2. Hymn To the Mother Of God: Vasily Kalinnikov
3. De Profundis: Paul Mealor
4. Tropar: Anatol Liadov
5. Third Antiphon: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31, Rachmaninov
6. Hymn to the Mother of God: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31, Rachmaninov
7. We Priase Thee: Pavel Tchesnokov
8. Gentle Light: Kalinnikov
9. Dobr'ii vechir Tobi: Anonymous
10. The Twelve Brigands: Traditional
11. Nova Radist' Stala: Anonymous
12. Communion Hymn: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op.31, Rachmaninov
13. First Antiphon: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op.31, Rachmaninov
14-17. Vespers: (All-Night Vigil), Op.37, Rachmaninov