Tavener: The Protecting Veil; The Last Sleep of the Virgin etc

Name: Tavener: The Protecting Veil; The Last Sleep of the Virgin etc
Item: Tavener: The Protecting Veil; The Last Sleep of the Virgin etc
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By BBC Music Magazine

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:22 pm

COMPOSERS: Tavener
LABELS: EMI
WORKS: The Protecting Veil; The Last Sleep of the Virgin etc
PERFORMER: Kringelborn (soprano), Isserlis (cello); LSO/Rozhdestvensky; Winchester Cathedral Choir/Hill, Dunnett etc
CATALOGUE NO: 237 6912 (1992-94)

Excellent accounts of some of the best of Tavener’s Orthodox/Byzantine-influenced works, full of mystery and serene faith. Barry Witherden

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