Even listeners who rightly treasured their LPs of Tippett's first three symphonies by Colin Davis and the London Symphony had to be grateful when Richard Hickox and the Bournemouth Symphony recorded all four of Tippett's symphonies for CD. After all, not only are Tippett's symphonies arguably in the same class as Elgar and Vaughan Williams', but, ...
This disc was a bestseller straight out of the box, one of a precious few collections of new music by a contemporary composer of which that might be said. Eric Whitacre is a fifth-generation Nevadan who couldn't read music when he enrolled at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. On his first day in the choir, which he joined because of some ...
The John Tavener Collection is a compilation of short, individual pieces combined with "bleeding chunks" drawn from larger works such as The Protecting Veil. It is not a greatest-hits collection so much as an attempt to represent various aspects of John Tavener's "high holy minimalist" style. The Decca producers have done a good job of putting ...
This recording of Tavener works dating from between 1996 and 2003 was sure to attract attention in any case; Tavener is one of the major choral composers of our time, and the works included show evidence of a significant new direction in his style. And the composer's de-conversion from the Eastern Orthodox Church seems likely to win it even more ...
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