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Eonia
First line:
Whether it's dusk or dawn's first light
composer
1989
author of text
The Jasmin
Recordings
'Tavener: Sacred Music' (CDH55414)
Details
Track 12 on CDH55414 [3'36] Helios (Hyperion's budget label) NEW
Eonia
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Eonia (1989) is a valedictory tribute to the painter, the late Cecil Collins. Tavener writes that he opened the collected works of the Greek poet Seferis and found the haiku ‘To Yiasemi’ (‘The Jasmine’) while talking on the telephone to Mother Thekla. He read it out and she continued in English and Slavonic—‘it was almost like “dictated” writing’, the composer has said. The music is of extreme delicacy and transparent simplicity, like the text. Tavener asks for it to be sung ‘with unearthly stillness and purity; with no “expression”’. In this it is, like much else in Tavener’s work, as spiritually transparent as an ikon.

from notes by Ivan Moody © 1991

Track-specific metadata
Details for CDH55414 track 12
Artists
ISRC
GB-AJY-91-46412
Duration
3'36
Recording date
13 July 1990
Recording venue
All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London, United Kingdom
Recording producer
Chris Sayers
Recording engineer
Antony Howell
Hyperion usage
  1. Tavener: Sacred Music (CDA66464)
    Disc 1 Track 12
    Release date: April 1991
    Deletion date: December 2009
    Superseded by CDH55414
  2. Tavener: Sacred Music (CDH55414)
    Disc 1 Track 12
    Release date: June 2013
    Helios (Hyperion's budget label) NEW
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