John Tavener: Song For Athene, Svyati, Etc / Robinson, Et Al

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
February 1, 2001
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      TAVENER
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      St. John'S College Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Cambridge, Christopher, Tim, Robinson, Hugh
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 01, 2001
    • UPC
      747313525621
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8555256
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. God is with Us: Christmas Proclamation

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson

    2. Song for Athene

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson

    3. The Lamb

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson

    4. The Tiger

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson

    5. Magnificat

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson

    6. Nunc Dimittis

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson

    7. Funeral Ikos

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson

    8. Hymn to the Mother of God

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson

    9. Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother of God

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson

    10. Love bade me welcome

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson

    11. As one who has slept

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson

    12. The Lord's Prayer

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson

    13. Svyati, 'O Holy One'

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Performer: Tim Hugh

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson


John Tavener studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Sir Lennox Berkeley and David Lumsdaine. In 1968 his dramatic cantata The Whale took it's audience by storm and led to his music being recorded on The Beatles' Apple label. Since that time Tavener has continued to show an originality of concept and an intensely personal idiom, making his a voice quite separate from those of his contemporaries. Over the years, the contemplative side of his nature has led him in more spiritual directions and his commitment to the Russian Orthodox Church, which he joined in 1977, is now evident in all his work. In an interview published in his recent book The Music of Silence, Sir John Tavener wrote. "If you listen to the music of the East, somehow the divine is already there. It is - which is a parallel with the eternal 'I am."' What this means in practical terms is that Tavener, in aiming at writing music suitable to convey the theology and the spirituality of the Orthodox Church, to participate in some way in that "eternal 'I am"', creates music of what one might call "dynamic stasis". In other words, the long phrases of eastern chant (of various traditions), the harmonic transparency and the stillness of his work runs counter to what the composer sees as the more "active" spirit of western sacred music; nevertheless, Tavener's western background inevitably and naturally plays it's part, and the unique sound of the fusion of these two is characteristic of all of the works on this disc.