Gnosis (2013)

"The score is engrossing, unpredictable
and structured with Tavener’s
ethereal “eternal note” to start, leading
gently into light and dark elements. Each short section moves on
between movements of awakening,
silence, rapture and crushing apocalyptic
forces"

[...]

"At its most curious point towards
the end, the shock revelation of a
section from the finale of Mozart's
Piano Concerto No 17 K. 453 falls
into place, representing a release
from the tension between the piece’s
turmoil and search for peaceful conclusion."

"amazingly sensual"

"In Gnosis, John Tavener has left a posthumous mystical love-letter which, though small in scale, carves out a large space in the mind."

“All his formal rigour – and recklessness – was there, with sudden, violently virtuosic string episodes crashing into the music’s hushed sanctuary”

[...]

“each time the tone row returned, sometimes in canon with instruments, it brought an intense, otherworldly quality.”