Akhmatova Songs (Tavener)
from Tavener: The World & Diódia (CDA67217)
1 Dante [2'23]
2 Pushkin and Lermontov [1'54]
3 Boris Pasternak [1'42]
4 Dvustishie 'Couplet' [2'09]
5 Muza 'The muse' [2'52]
6 Smert 'Death' [3'52]
14 minutes 52 seconds 6 tracks
‘The Vanbrugh Quartet’s intense and committed performance is of the highest calibre. An indispensable and thoroughly recommendable disc’ (Gramophone)
‘The music generates an intense, mesmerising background stillness. I can’t imagine [it] performed better. The recording balances clarity and atmosphere to near-perfection’ (BBC Music Magazine)
‘The Akhmatova Songs are among Tavener’s most impressive works of recent years. Performances are exemplary, as is the recording’ (International Record Review)