Tavener: Song for Athene, Svyati & other choral music

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If John Tavener's reputation were to rest solely on his unaccompanied choral music and nothing else, then his stature as one of the most striking and original composers working today would be... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 8555256
Label: Naxos
Series: English Choral Music
Length: 70 minutes

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Tavener: God is With Us (A Christmas Proclamation)

Work length5:28

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Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 11 - 13 July 2000
Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge

God is with Us: Christmas Proclamation

Track length5:28

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Tavener: Song for Athene

Work length5:42

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Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 11 - 13 July 2000
Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge

Tavener: The Lamb

Work length3:51

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Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 11 - 13 July 2000
Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge

Tavener: The Tyger

Work length5:22

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Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 11 - 13 July 2000
Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge

The Tiger

Track length5:22

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Tavener: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Regale)

Work length10:33

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$3.90

Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 11 - 13 July 2000
Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge

Magnificat

Track length7:35

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Nunc Dimittis

Track length2:58

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Tavener: Funeral Ikos

Work length7:15

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Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 11 - 13 July 2000
Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge

Tavener: Hymn to the Mother of God

Work length6:26

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Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 11 - 13 July 2000
Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge

Hymn to the Mother of God

Track length2:36

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Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother of God

Track length3:50

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Tavener: Love bade me welcome

Work length4:56

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Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 11 - 13 July 2000
Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge

Tavener: As one who has slept

Work length4:20

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Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 11 - 13 July 2000
Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge

Tavener: The Lord's Prayer

Work length3:34

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Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 11 - 13 July 2000
Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge

Tavener: Svyati 'O Holy One'

Work length13:20

$3.00

$3.85

Tim Hugh (cello)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 11 - 13 July 2000
Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge

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2010

If John Tavener's reputation were to rest solely on his unaccompanied choral music and nothing else, then his stature as one of the most striking and original composers working today would be just as high. Much of Tavener's creativity is founded on the traditions of his Orthodox faith and of Orthodox chant, and yet curiously, intentionally or unintentionally, he has also, through works such as those presented here, extended the tradition of English choral music. Through their popularity The Lamb, The Tiger and Songfor Athene have become immovably imbedded in our choral tradition, but one need only listen to the splendid Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, for instance, to find a unique symbiosis of Eastern and Western traditions at work.
Many of the works presented on this CD have enjoyed wide circulation on numerous Taveneronly and compilation discs, but the performances here from the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, under the direction of Christopher Robinson, have much to recommend them and the super-budget price makes this issue especially desirable for those seeking a survey of Tavener's choral music for the first time.
Svyati for solo cello and choir, with echoes of The Protecting Veil, opens a window on Tavener's more overtly Eastern/ Orthodox-inspired music. Tim Hugh's serenely beautiful account of the solo cello part is a winner from beginning to end. The recording, made in St John's College Chapel, is resplendently atmospheric.

December 8, 2000

The Christmas Proclamation, God is with Us, is the striking first item in this collection of John Tavener's shorter choral pieces. It was inspired, like so many of Tavener's works, by Greek Orthodox liturgy, rising in a thrilling crescendo and punctuated at the end by fortissimo organ chords. The Song for Athene, well-remembered from the funeral, of Princess Diana, is here presented as an anthem rather than a processional, with the other works, including most of the favourite Tavener items, also superbly sung and atmospherically recorded

John Tavener's choral music is inspired by his Orthodox faith, and on this disc the choir…. eloquently communicate the music's timeless spirituality…[and] the composer's richly coloured blend of Eastern and Western liturgical traditions

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