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ClassicsToday.com Review Digest for Works by John Tavener


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COMPOSER ALBUM/WORK TITLE PERFORMER LABEL CATALOG MEDIUM RATING
Works by Holst, Sheppard, Tchaikovsky, Parry, others
BLESSED SPIRIT--Music of the Soul’s Journey
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Timothy Brown
Collegium 127 CD 9/7
Carols & Anthems by various composers & arrangers
NOËL
Robert Johnston (tenor); Jane Watts (organ)
The Bach Choir
Choristers of Winchester Cathedral
The Wallace Collection
David Hill
Priory 768 CD 9/9
Medieval chant & polyphony; John Tavener: Come and do Your will in me; As one who has slept; The Lord's Prayer; The Bridegroom (world-premiere)
DARKNESS INTO LIGHT
Anonymous 4
Chilingirian Quartet

Harmonia Mundi 907274 CD 9/10
JOHN TAVENER
Diódia (string quartet); The World; Akhmatova Songs; Many Years Patricia Rozario (soprano)
The Vanbrugh Quartet

Hyperion 67217 CD 3/8
JOHN TAVENER
Fall and Resurrection Patricia Rozario (soprano); Michael Chance (counter-tenor); Martyn Hill (psaltis); Stephen Richardson (bass); Adrian Peacock (voice of God/Christ/Devil)
BBC Singers
St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox
Chandos CHAN 9800 CD 5/8
JOHN TAVENER
GOD (Theos) The Trilogy Part One: The Mind of God Minas Tirith (countertenor); Laszlo Meyer-Thorne (untunable organ)
The Clerkes of Canterbury Countertenor Choir and Cantors of the Cotswolds
John Tavener, Henry Pucell, Benjamin Bitten
Chandos 41201 CD 6/10
JOHN TAVENER
Lamentations and Praises Chanticleer
Handel & Haydn Society of Boston
Joseph Jennings
Teldec 0927-41342-2 CD 3/8
JOHN TAVENER
Song for Athene; Svyati; The Lamb; Hymn to the Mother of God; other choral works Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Naxos 8.555256 CD 8/7
JOHN TAVENER
JOHN TAVERNER
HENRY PURCELL
JOHN WARD
PICFORTH
The Hidden Face; Apokatástasis; Nipson
Sanctus & Benedictus from Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
An Evening Hymn (arr. Silas Standage)
In Nomine I & II
In Nomine
Michael Chance (countertenor); Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Fretwork

Harmonia Mundi 907285 CD 3/9
JOHN TAVENER
The Veil of the Temple Patricia Rozario (soprano); Adrian Peacock, David Barnard (bass); Simon Wall, Nathan Vale (tenor); Jeremy Birchall (basso profundo); Thomas Guthrie, Andrew Rupp (baritone)
The Choir of the Temple Church
The Holst Singers
The English Chamber Orchestra brass
Stephen Layton
RCA 82876661542 SACD 7/10
JOHN TAVENER
Total Eclipse; Agraphon Patricia Rozario (soprano); John Harle (saxophone)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Paul Goodwin
Harmonia Mundi 907271 CD 3/9
JOHN TAVENER
Zodiacs; Ypakoë; Palin; Mandoodles; Pratirüpa; In Memory of Two Cats Ralph van Raat (piano)

Naxos 8.570442 CD 7/8

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