John Tavener: Chorwerke (CD)

John Tavener (1944-2013)

Polyphony, Stephen Layton

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Birthday Sleep; Butterfly Dreams; The Second Coming; Schuon Hymnen; As one who has slept; The Bridal Chamber; Exhortation and Kohima; Shunya

Künstler:: Polyphony, Stephen Layton
Label:: Hyperion
Aufnahmejahr ca.:: 2003
Artikelnummer:: 8963998
UPC/EAN:: 0034571174754
Erscheinungstermin:: 18.10.2004

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Hyperion’s 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, Tavener’s inspiration now embraces the metaphysical – in both text and musical response – with remarkable results. The Second Coming, for example, sets words by W B Yeats in an outpouring of expectation and drama. The three newest works – Butterfly Dreams, Schuon Hymnen and Shûnya, all written in 2003 – are representative of a new phase in Tavener’s 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 year’s 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 Shûnya – written for Stephen Layton – is an extended meditation on the Buddhist ideal of ‘emptiness’ (‘shûnya’); 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 Diana’s funeral), and itself deserves to become a part of the core repertory. With no fewer than six première recordings, this disc is essential listening.

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'there's no doubt about the quality of the performances. Tavener finds devoted interpreters in Polyphony who produce some of the most beautiful choral singing you could ever hope to hear. And all is captured in a glowing recording' (BBC Music Magazine)

'The power of Tavener at his best is fully unlocked by Polyphony and Stephen Layton, whose sensitivity to the sacred and human in his music communicates in every work on this disc' (Classic FM Magazine)

'Stephen Layton's superb choir, Polyphony, does wonders in bringing variety to a sequence of John Tavener's works for small chorus that might easily have seemed too slow and meditative' (The Guardian)

'for the Tavener devotee, among whose number I include myself, this disc is an essential survey of the composer's recent musical concerns, and contains some splendid new music' (International Record Review)