Richard Hickox conducts Sir John Tavener

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Patricia Rozario (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor), Patricia Rozario (soprano) & Stephen Richardson (bass), Jeremy Birchall & Margaret Feaviour

BBC National Chorus of Wales, Britten Singers, Chester Festival Chorus & BBC National Orchestra of Wales,...

While there may be doubts over the music there can be no doubt as to the excellence and commitment of all three performances on this pair of discs. The recorded sound and booklet are up to the... — MusicWeb International, August 2012 More…

Release Date: 28th May 2012
Catalogue No: CHAN241-42
Label: Chandos
Series: 241, The Hickox Legacy
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

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Tavener: We Shall See Him As He Is

Work length1:01:03

$15.30

$18.85

Richard Hickox, BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Patricia Rozario, John Mark Ainsley, Andrew Murgatroyd, BBC Welsh Chorus, John Senter, Britten Singers, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Chester Festival Chorus

Refrain. The Unfolding of the Great Mystery

Track length3:33

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Ikon I

Track length2:13

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Ikon II

Track length3:02

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Ikon III - Refrain

Track length7:35

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Ikon IV

Track length3:49

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Ikon V - Refrain

Track length9:45

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Ikon VI

Track length6:16

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Ikon VII - Refrain

Track length6:36

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Ikon VIII

Track length2:01

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Ikon IX

Track length3:09

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The Tomb

Track length0:59

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Ikon X

Track length7:40

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Ikon XI

Track length4:25

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Tavener: Eis Thanaton (Ode to Death)

Work length38:01

$5.90

$7.15

Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Stephen Richardson, Patricia Rozario

To this shrine of the first Christians (Son)

Track length14:57

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$2.60

Ask me not. Never search the inexpressible mystery of death (Mother)

Track length12:14

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Wait! Do not forsake your grieving son (Son, Mother, Church)

Track length10:50

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Tavener: Theophany

Work length29:05

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Richard Hickox, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Margaret Feaviour, Jeremy Birchall

Section 1

Track length11:42

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$2.60

Section 2

Track length17:23

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This two-disc set of choral works by Sir John Tavener forms part of the new and ongoing Richard Hickox Legacy series on Chandos, leading up to the fifth anniversary of the conductor’s death in November 2013. Next month (July 2012) we will continue the series with six further re-releases, including a selection of choral works by Dyson, Holst, Elgar, Howells, and Vaughan Williams, as well as a six-disc collector’s box set of orchestral works by Frank Bridge. All will be available at mid- or bargain price, on either the Chandos Classics or Chandos 2-4-1 labels.

The three works in this Tavener set reflect two major influences on the composer’s music: the culture of Greece, and the tradition of the Greek Orthodox Church. In the words of Tavener himself: ‘In everything I do, I aspire to the sacred… music is a form of prayer, a mystery.’ This manifesto is evident in the choral work We Shall See Him as He Is, which was recorded live at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in London. The concert led Gramophone to the following conclusion: ‘an extraordinary work in an extraordinarily committed and spellbinding performance’. The Mumbai-born British soprano Patricia Rozario has made recordings of numerous works by Tavener, and she was in fact the composer’s own personal choice of soprano for this work, as well as for Eis Thanaton.

Eis Thanaton (Ode to Death) arose from personal tragedy: it is dedicated to the memory of Tavener’s mother who had died in 1985. Tavener describes the work as ‘an ikon of sorrow’, worked through as ‘part of a whole divine plan, not of death as an isolated cruel imposition’.

Tavener describes the orchestral Theophany as ‘an attempt to redefine the presence of God in all things as seen from the earliest days of creation to the Psalmist’. Mother Thekla, his friend and spiritual advisor, had a guiding hand in the shaping of the work, which was commissioned by the Bournemouth Orchestras to mark its centenary celebrations.

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Patricia Rozario (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor), Patricia Rozario (soprano) & Stephen Richardson (bass), Jeremy Birchall & Margaret Feaviour

BBC National Chorus of Wales, Britten Singers, Chester Festival Chorus & BBC National Orchestra of Wales, City of London Sinfonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox

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August 2012

While there may be doubts over the music there can be no doubt as to the excellence and commitment of all three performances on this pair of discs. The recorded sound and booklet are up to the usual very high Chandos standards.

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