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- Original Release Date: 27 Nov 2000
- Format - Music: MP3
- Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
- Also available in CD Format
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| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
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| Play | 1. God is with us: God is with Us: Christmas Proclamation | Christopher Robinson | 5:28 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 2. Song for Athene | Christopher Robinson | 5:36 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 3. The Lamb : The Lamb | Christopher Robinson | 3:52 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 4. The Tyger: The Tiger | Christopher Robinson | 5:22 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 5. Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Magnificat | Christopher Robinson | 7:35 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 6. Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Nunc Dimittis | Christopher Robinson | 2:58 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 7. Funeral Ikos | Christopher Robinson | 7:15 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 8. 2 Hymns to the Mother of God: Hymn to the Mother of God | Christopher Robinson | 2:36 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 9. 2 Hymns to the Mother of God: Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother of God | Christopher Robinson | 3:50 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 10. Love bade me welcome | Christopher Robinson | 4:56 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 11. As one who has slept | Christopher Robinson | 4:20 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 12. The Lord's Prayer | Christopher Robinson | 3:34 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 13. Svyati, "O Holy One": Svyati, 'O Holy One' | Tim Hugh | 13:20 | Album Only |
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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
All the Tavener "standards" are here (Song for Athene, The Lamb etc.) plus some less common pieces. The Funeral Ikos is the most wonderful thing I've ever heard, the Christmas Proclamation is simply spine-tingling and the Magnificat heart-stopping. The Svyati to finish it with - excellent.....
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
On one level this is a great CD. Under the direction of Christopher Robinson the Choir of St John's College Cambridge have drunk deeply of the idiom of John Tavener's choral works, which combine Russian intensity with the classic British Choral tradition. They have transported themselves into his musical world and their performances are quite different than those on other CDs in this series of works by more conventionally British composers such as Stanford and Finzi: more urgent, more rapt, more other worldly.
On the other hand the limitations of John Tavener's style are revealed. He talks a good talk about the wrong turning western music took at the beginning of the modern era and about returning to an earlier universal musical purity. But what does he give us? By the time I am half way through this disc I feel that I am being sentenced to an hour of stair walking as I hear yet another ascent and descent of the same scales.
There is no doubt that taken one at a time these pieces are works of beauty. But taken together their repetitive nature is made obvious.
There are also problems with the sound levels on the first few tracks. On God With Us the intrusions by the organ towards the end are too loud, and in Song for Athene there is too great a dynamic range. These tracks require the listener to have one hand on the volume control. After that things improve.
There is one obvious piece of wrong information on the back cover of the CD. John Tavener is described as having a strong Greek Orthodox faith, when in fact he was a member of the Russian Orthodox Church for many years. The booklet notes are of a good standard and add to appreciation of the works
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a lovely collection of Tavener's choral music, perfect for introducing a newcomer to his style and leaving him or her wanting more. It includes the `Song for Athene', made famous by the Diana, Princess of Wales funeral, but it offers many more pieces, such as `The Lamb', and `Svyati', which show an even broader aspect of Tavener's soothing, peaceful style. This is music with great depth, suitable for accompanying meditation, for listening in the dark, or for reaching towards an understanding of life. The choir of St John's College, Cambridge and Christopher Robinson achieve a sound that perfectly suits the music.
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