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John Tavener

Sir Nicholas Kenyon reflects on the life of popular classical music composer, Sir John Tavener. From February 2014.

Sir John Tavener became a popular composer of classical music. Sir Nicholas Kenyon explores how he achieved this, through archive and through conversation with Lady Tavener, in her first interview since her husband's death, and with Tavener's friends. These include the cellist Steven Isserlis, the oboist Nicholas Daniels, and Martin Neary, Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey at the time of Princess Diana's funeral, when Tavener's Ode to Athene accompanied her coffin from the Abbey and brought his music to a wider public.

Producer Marya Burgess.

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58 minutes

Last on

Sun 25 Feb 2018 03:00

Broadcasts

  • Sat 8 Feb 2014 20:00
  • Sat 24 Feb 2018 08:00
  • Sat 24 Feb 2018 15:00
  • Sun 25 Feb 2018 03:00