Release Date: 22 September 2014
Label: NMC Recordings
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5023363020824
Genres:
Classical  Choral  
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Description
Tavener's avant-garde style of the seventies contrasts with the contemplative beauty of his later works, for which he is best known, yet he spirituality and mysticism is still present. Akhmatova Requiem (1980) sets a sequence of poems written during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s by Anna Akhmatova, describing the terror of having her family and friends arrested and imprisoned, and the lines of relatives waiting hopelessly outside Leningrad jail. To her poems, Tavener added prayers from the Russian Orthodox funeral service which are sung on this recording by bass-baritone John Shirley-Quirk.
This recording was previously issued by Carlton Classics in its BBC Radio Classics series.
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Tracklisting
Disc 1
Side 1
- 1. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem Requiem
- 2. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem I Dedication
- 3. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem II Introduction
- 4. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem III
- 5. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem IV
- 6. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem V
- 7. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem VI
- 8. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem VII
- 9. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem VIII
- 10. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem IX
- 11. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem X The Sentence
- 12. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem XI To Death
- 13. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem XII
- 14. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem XIII Crucifixion
- 15. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem XIV
- 16. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem XV
- 17. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem XVI Epilogue
- 18. John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem XVII Epilogue II
- 19. John Tavener: Six Russian Folk Songs I O dark autumn night
- 20. John Tavener: Six Russian Folk Songs II In the garden stands a pretty birch tree
- 21. John Tavener: Six Russian Folk Songs III Darling, let us walk by the banks of the Volga
- 22. John Tavener: Six Russian Folk Songs IV I have seen the great wide world
- 23. John Tavener: Six Russian Folk Songs V Pretty maid, why do you stare so longingly?
- 24. John Tavener: Six Russian Folk Songs VI Kalinka
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