Album Description

Despite the mystic beauty of his music, John Tavener's place in Western music is a controversial one. His desire to create musical ikons for a time in which he believes 'man has lost his belief not only in God, but also in himself' is provocative. Yet part of the attraction of his music must surely arise from its symbolic nature, a reflection of his deeply-held Orthodox faith.

This collection covers a wide range of Tavener's celebrated choral output and includes his immediately popular setting of William Blake's The Lamb, and the luminously spiritual, Ikon of Light.

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Track Listing

John Tavener (b. 1944)

1. A Hymn to the Mother of God

2. Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother of God 

3. The Lamb 

4. The Tyger 

Ikon of Light:
5. Movement 1 - FOS I, DOXA 
6. Movement 2 - PIU INTENSITA
7. Movement 3 - TRISAGION I 
8. Movement 4a - MYSTIC PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT 
9. Movement 4b 
10. Movement 4c 
11. Movement 4d 
12. Movement 4e 
13. Movement 5 - TRISAGION II 
14. Movement 6 - FOS II 
15. Movement 7 - EPIPHANIA 

16. Today the Virgin 

17. Eonia 

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 67.26