kompozytor
Tavener, John
tytuł

John Tavener - A Portrait

wykonawcy
Ulster Orchestra;
Kliegel, Maria;
Goodwin, Paul;
Choir of St John's College Cambridge;
Robinson, Christopher;
Yuasa, Takuo;
Rozario, Patricia;
Bowyer, Kevin;
Brodsky Quartet;
Friend, Lionel;
Duke Quartet;
Varcoe, Stephen;
Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble;
Minnesota Orchestra;
Durham Cathedral Choir;
Tenebrae;
Vanbrugh Quartet;
Christophers, Harry;
Short, Nigel
nr katalogowy
8.558152-53
opis
The English composer John Tavener was a piano pupil of Solomon and a composition pupil of Lennox Berkeley at the Royal Academy of Music in London, acquiring a knowledge of contemporary French music through David Lumsdaine. As a composer he has been drawn to religious subjects, inspired by his interest in the Greek Orthodox Church. He was knighted in 2000.

" I think it might be best to look at the Tavener Portrait, one of an increasing number from Naxos, as an illustrated essay. The text is by David McCleery and provides one of the most succinct and structurally commonsensical summaries of the composer’s musical background. It’s true that the essay is schematic and like University English courses tends to make concrete and absolute that which may be more fluid and ambiguous. Yet it is I suppose undeniable that Tavener’s music, more than many others, is susceptible to this kind of analysis, not least because of his religious affiliations.

The recorded interview that takes up about fifty minutes of the second CD is also full of interest. Tavener is an engaging speaker, if not always an especially humorous one (I don’t suppose it’s a precondition but it never does any harm) and this aural testament also adds another layer to the variousness of the enterprise. It may seem generic and journalistic but it does work and given your interest in Tavener (mine for what it’s worth is almost nil) will stimulate further discoveries or rediscoveries (No The Whale here I notice. Wonder why.)

The music consists of extracts licensed from a number of different companies – not just Naxos’s own backlist. So we have Hyperion, Koch International, Coro, Divine Art, Priory, NMC and Regis amongst others. We also have the first release of Prayer of the Heart written for Icelandic popular chanteuse Björk with the assistance of the Brodsky Quartet, purveyors of the background music, though not the superimposed heartbeat.

The most interesting piece here for me, is Zodiacs, for piano, which does have a fascinating colouristic palette. It’s also diverting to hear the guitar piece Chant, a four-minute extract of which is here. The expected hits are here – if I can put it that way – and of course (a quarter of an hour of) the interminable The Protecting Veil in the Kliegel recording for Naxos.

Other than that this biographical essay with supporting aural evidence will doubtless prove of some worth to initiates and indeed detractors alike. "

Jonathan Woolf
nośnik
CD x 2
gatunek
Muzyka klasyczna
producent
Naxos
data wydania
17-02-2004
EAN / kod kreskowy
636943815229
John Tavener - A Portrait


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