As one who has slept

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composer

Sir John Tavener (1944-2013)

1996; SSATB SATB

author of text

Anonymous - liturgical

Liturgy of St Basil for Great and Holy Saturday

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.

Située presque en bout de cette chaîne d’œuvres, As one who has slept (1996), la plus ancienne pièce de la présente anthologie, évoque, d’une manière extraordinairement transparente et avec les moyens musicaux les plus simples, la descente aux enfers du Christ: ce moment est commémoré le Samedi saint, quand le supplice de la Crucifixion est derrière nous et que nous sommes dans l’expectative, avant la proclamation de la Résurrection.

extrait des notes rédigées par Ivan Moody © 2004
Français: Hyperion Records Ltd

Das früheste Stück der auf dieser CD eingespielten Werke, As one who has slept (Spur, 1996), entstand fast am Ende dieser langen Werkreihe. Es dreht sich, in einer außerordentlich transparenten Art und Weise und mit den einfachsten musikalischen Mitteln, um Christus’ Abstieg zur Hölle: jenen am Karsamstag beschriebenen Zeitraum, wenn die Qualen der Kreuzung hinter uns liegen und wir von den Erwartungen auf die Verkündung der Auferstehung erfüllt sind.

aus dem Begleittext von Ivan Moody © 2004
Deutsch: Elke Hockings

Recordings

Dreamland

HYP41Super-budget price sampler

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Tavener: Angels & other choral works

Winchester Cathedral Choir, Andrew Lumsden (conductor)

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Tavener: Choral Music

Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)

CDA67475

‘Polyphony fields 25 singers for this project and for this repertory, I think you've got about a good a choir as you could possibly get. Stephen Layto ...
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