大象传媒

大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
5 Oct 2014, Barbican, London
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Total Immersion: John Tavener Remembered Total Immersion: John Tavener Remembered

大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Total Immersion: John Tavener Remembered
Sun 5 Oct 2014 Barbican Hall
The 大象传媒 SO celebrates the music and life of composer John Tavener.
The 大象传媒 SO celebrates the music and life of composer John Tavener.

Programme

      • Little Ceremonial
      • Akhmatova: Requiem
      • The Protecting Veil

Composers

John Tavener Remembered

John Tavener stands alone in British music, a mystic, iconoclast and visionary who connected with a mass public. His music achieved a timeless quality whose spiritual inspiration drew from diverse faiths and traditions. This concert concludes a day-long celebration of the extraordinary man and his music.

Nicolas Alstaedt performs the beautiful soaring cello solo in Tavener's The Protecting Veil under conductor Alexander Vedernikov. Superlative soloists Marie Arnet and Brindley Sherratt lend their voices to Tavener's Akhmatova: Requiem. Here the composer added prayers from the Russian Orthodox funeral services to the original Russian text by Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova's Requiem.