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You already can hear the British press crying “masterpiece!” over […]
The promotional blurb for this recording bills it as a “wide-ranging program”, and that’s certainly true; the only unifying theme might be that all the
The music on this new release of John Tavener works
If I were God, I’d be insulted. Blasphemous, you say? Perhaps. But this statement doesn’t even begin to plumb the depths of cliché-ridden triviality that
Listening blind, so to speak, I’m baffled by those long, wandering canons with weird modal twists. A student exercise in need of editing? One section
One thing you have to say: there’s a lot of sound on this CD. Not only is the sound of the “chamber” choir huge, but
First the good news: Nicola Benedetti makes a strikingly sexy impression on the disc cover, and she also plays the violin quite well. Her tone
Unlike in his famous encounter with Mozart, Emperor Joseph II never would say to this composer, “Too many notes, Tavener.” In The Veil of the
John Tavener as iconographer, an icon-painter painting images from the life of Jesus Christ for the faithful: that’s the conceit for the composer’s latest recording
The disc cover would have us believe that this is a John Tavener program when in fact it’s really a Fretwork recording (its first for
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