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Tavener: Thunder Entered Her, The Last Sleep of the Virgin, etc / David Hill, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Chilingirian String Quartet

2 CD / Virgin Classics / 2009-05-19

Works: John Tavener: Angels; Annunciation; Lament of the Mother of God; Thunder Entered Her; Hymns of Paradise; God is with us; The Last Sleep of the Virgin; The Hidden Treasure; Arvo Pärt: Summa; Frat...
Performers: Cruft, Benedict; Dunnett, David; Kendall, William; Kiernan, Patrick; Kostecki, Boguslav; Kringelborn, Solveig; Rakowski, Maciej; Shave, Jacqueline; Simcock, Iain; Sweeney, Donald; Wright, Gavyn
Conductors: Hill, David
Ensemble: Winchester Cathedral Choir

"John Tavener, one of the most popular composers of the last century, has created some meditatively enduring works such as Lamentations & Praises, Lament for...continue...

20th Century Classics - Tavener: The Protecting Veil, Choral Music, etc / Hill, Isserlis, et al

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-02-24

Works: John Tavener: The Protecting Veil; The Last Sleep of the Virgin; Angels; Annunciation; Lament of the Mother of God; Thunder Entered Her; Hymns of Paradise; God is with us
Performers: Cruft, Benedict; Dunnett, David; Isserlis, Steven; Kendall, William; Kiernan, Patrick; Kostecki, Boguslav; Kringelborn, Solveig; Rakowski, Maciej; Shave, Jacqueline; Simcock, Iain; Sweeney, Donald; W...
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; ; Hill, David; Dunnett, David
Ensemble: ; Chilingirian Quartet; Winchester Cathedral Choir

"EMI's release of this two-disc tribute to John Tavener is a collection of his greatest hits taken from performances in their archives. British cellist Steven...continue...

Tavener: Ex Maria Virgine, Angels, etc / Brown, Berkieta, Jacobs, Clare College Choir, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-11-25

Works: John Tavener: Ex Maria Virgine, a Christmas sequence for chorus & organ; Birthday Sleep, for chorus; O, do not move, for chorus; A Nativity Carol, for chorus; Marienhymne, for high chorus & mixed cho...
Performers: Berkieta, Stefan; Jacobs, Simon; McVinney, James

"Ms. Kodama brings a canny, graceful style to these early--though iconoclastic--works of Beethoven, a graded, assiduous sense of rhythm and tempered dynamics. Suave, even feline,...continue...

Best of Sir John Tavener

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2005-03-01

Works: John Tavener: Funeral Ikos, for chorus; The Lamb "Little Lamb, who made thee?"; A Hymn to the Mother of God; The Protecting Veil; Angels; Lament of the Mother of God; Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, fo...
Performers: Dunnett, David; Isserlis, Steven
Conductors: Backhouse, Jeremy; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Hill, David; Cleobury, Stephen