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Release Date: 30th Aug 2004
Catalogue No: SACDA67475
Label: Hyperion
Length: 74 minutes

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Tavener: Birthday Sleep

Work length6:33

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Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Tavener: Butterfly Dreams. Butterfly Dreams based on Chuang

Work length0:52

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Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Tavener: Butterfly Dreams. Haiku by Kokku

Work length0:35

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Stephen Layton

Tavener: Butterfly Dreams. Haiku by Buson

Work length1:00

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Tavener: Butterfly Dreams. Haiku by Issa

Work length1:02

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Tavener: Butterfly Dreams. Haiku, anon

Work length1:02

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Tavener: Butterfly Dreams. The Butterfly by Pavel Friedmann

Work length3:45

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Tavener: Butterfly Dreams. Butterfly Song from Acoman India

Work length1:43

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Tavener: Butterfly Dreams. Butterfly Dreams based on Chuang

Work length1:03

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Tavener: The Second Coming

Work length6:48

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Tavener: Schuon Hymnen

Work length13:25

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Tavener: As one who has slept

Work length4:10

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Tavener: The Bridal Chamber

Work length7:54

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Tavener: Exhortation and Kohima

Work length6:34

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Tavener: Shûnya

Work length18:03

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Hyperions Record of the Month for September brings us some astonishingly fresh new compositions from Sir John Tavener. Moving away from the Greek Orthodox rites which have infused so much of his recent output, Taveners inspiration now embraces the metaphysicalin both text and musical responsewith remarkable results. The Second Coming, for example, sets words by W B Yeats in an outpouring of expectation and drama. The three newest worksButterfly Dreams, Schuon Hymnen and Shnya, all written in 2003are representative of a new phase in Taveners work which has reached its climax thus far in the seven-hour-long Veil of the Temple (to be performed under Stephen Layton at this years BBC Proms). Butterfly Dreams may initially appear to be a secular work, yet the composer himself regards it as sacred, butterflies in this context being seen as symbols and even vehicles for the sacred. Schuon Hymnen, setting the words of Sufi sheikh, artist and metaphysician Frithjof Schuon, is a mantra-like Hymn to the Virgin, while Shnyawritten for Stephen Laytonis an extended meditation on the Buddhist ideal of emptiness (shnya); minimal influence from Western tonality here visits the world of Tibetan monks, the sonic halo of the temple bowl (a kind of gong) invoking an ecstatic evocation of eternity. As one who has slept, an Easter anthem and the earliest work on this disc, comes from the end of that compositional phase which saw such Tavener favourites as the Song for Athene (performed at Princess Dianas funeral), and itself deserves to become a part of the core repertory. With no fewer than six premire recordings, this disc is essential listening.

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