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- John Tavener
Funeral Ikos (1981)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
Programme Note
Funeral Ikos was written in 1981 when Tavener was 37. It is a serene setting of words which are probably unfamiliar to most of us and which a simple statement of the reward in Paradise for the Righteous Ones. The music shows the influence of Stravinsky, who used a similar homophonic style for some of this religious settings, but Tavener's music is, in this piece, much simpler harmonically. Indeed much of it is in unison allowing the full impact of the words to shine through. Nevertheless there is no doubt that the sensitive musicality, in which the sounds are almost just an accompaniment to the words, can only have been achieved by an extraordinary sensitive composer of deep religious conviction.
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Funeral Ikos
Reviews
...a moving, ethereal evocation of the hour of death, physical and spiritual.
8th November 2011
Discography
Crossing Over
- LabelSono Luminus
- Catalogue NumberDSL-92200
- EnsembleSkylark Vocal Ensemble
- Released25th March 2016
The John Tavener Collection
- LabelDecca
- Catalogue Number475 096-2
- ConductorStephen Layton
- EnsembleEnglish Chamber Orchestra / Choir of Temple Church / Holst Singers
- SoloistNatalie Clein, cello (extracts only of The Protecting Veil and The Veil of the Temple)
- Released1st January 2003
CURTAIN sounds: voices of our time
- LabelThe Classical Recording Company
- Catalogue NumberCRC1716
- ConductorJames Jarvis
- EnsembleExmoor Singers
- LabelRCA
- Catalogue Number09026 68255-2
- EnsembleKing's Singers
- LabelGimell
- Catalogue Number454 905-2PH
- EnsembleChilingirian Quartet / The Tallis Scholars
- SoloistPeter Phillips / John Tavener, conductors
- LabelNaxos
- Catalogue Number8.555256
- ConductorChristopher Robinson
- EnsembleChoir of St John's College, Cambridge
- SoloistTimothy Hugh, cello
- LabelGuild
- Catalogue NumberGMCD7140
- ConductorJane Sturmheit
- EnsembleYork Minster Chapel House Choir
- LabelEMI Eminence
- Catalogue NumberCD EMX2251
- ConductorJeremy Backhouse
- EnsembleVasari Singers
ikos - Górecki, Tavener, Pärt
- LabelEMI
- Catalogue NumberCDC5 55096-2
- ConductorStephen Cleobury
- EnsembleChoir of King's College Cambridge
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