As one who has slept (Tavener) - from CDA67475 - Hyperion Records

Track(s) taken from CDA67475

The earliest piece in this anthology, As one who has slept (1996), comes almost at the end of this long chain of works. It deals, in an extraordinarily transparent fashion and with the simplest of musical means, with Christ’s harrowing of Hell: the period, commemorated on Holy Saturday, when the agony of the Crucifixion is behind us and we are in a state of expectancy before the proclamation of the Resurrection.

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Recording details: January 2004
Temple Church, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Julian Millard
Release date: September 2004
Total duration: 4 minutes 3 seconds

As one who has slept

composer

Sir John Tavener (b1944)

author of text

Anonymous

Liturgy of St Basil for Great and Holy Saturday

Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)