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Tavener - Ex Maria Virgine (Christmas Sequence for Choir & Organ) | Naxos 8572168

Tavener - Ex Maria Virgine (Christmas Sequence for Choir & Organ)

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8572168

Barcode: 0747313216871

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Christmas

Release Date: 27th October 2008

Penguin Guide 4 stars

Contents

Artists

James McVinnie (organ)
Stefan Berkieta (baritone)
Simon Thomas Jacobs (organ)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

Conductor

Timothy Brown

Works

Tavener, John

A Nativity
Angels
Birthday Sleep
Ex Maria Virgine
Marienhymne
O, Do Not Move
O Thou Gentle Light

Artists

James McVinnie (organ)
Stefan Berkieta (baritone)
Simon Thomas Jacobs (organ)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

Conductor

Timothy Brown

About

Admired for the sheer beauty of his meditative and mystical music, John Tavener writes of his Ex Maria Virgine, which was dedicated to HRH the Prince of Wales and HRH the Duchess of Cornwall in joyful celebration of their marriage: “I have set both familiar and less well known texts, and linked them with an expanding and contracting phrase ‘Ex Maria Virgine’. This refers to Mary the Mother of God - ‘The Eternal Feminine’ - and should be sung with great radiance and femininity.

The other, mainly unaccompanied, works reveal Tavener’s response to various poetic texts that also praise the Virgin Mary.

John Rutter is the producer, editor and engineer on this disc.

The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge is secure and precise, delivering the text with excellent diction… Strong direction from Timothy Brown.” - BBC Music Magazine

World Premiere Recordings of both Ex maria Virgine and Marienhymne.

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