John Tavener: The Last Sleep of the Virgin; The Hidden Treasure [Import]

John Tavener (Composer), Arvo Part (Composer), Chilingirian Quartet (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Chilingirian Quartet
• Composer: John Tavener, Arvo Part
• Audio CD (December 23, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B00002639W
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #371,707 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Last Sleep Of The Virgin - Iain Simcock

2. Summa

3. Fratres

4. The Hidden Treasure

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sublimely Beautiful, October 21, 2003

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Matrina Lesko - See all my reviews

This review is from: John Tavener: The Last Sleep of the Virgin; The Hidden Treasure (Audio CD)

On October 21, 2003, I was looking this up for a friend and am surprised that no one has written a review of it. It has been around for years. I acquired it when I was first getting into the 'mystic minimalists.' Since then I have listened to it many times. If one can say 'sublimely beautiful' without evoking a sense of rapturous Victorian distraction in one's readers, then there is no more just epithet for this recording. Resonant. Dramatic tension maintained in the long lines. Incorporation of extraordinary effects (thumping the 'cello, hand bells in one piece) to enhance the musical and dramatic ends. I would certainly being my exposure to Part and Tavener by sampling their choral works (perhaps the Stabat Mater by the former, the setting of The Lamb by the latter), but I would certainly enhance and broaden my appreciation by acquiring this gem.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music as experiential transport by the human spirit..., September 13, 2010

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Music as experiential transport by the human spirit... "The Last Sleep of the Virgin"....

Allowing for the existence of consciousness as the highest reality, composer John Taverner has created an audial aperture for transport of the human heart. Aloft flies spirit on wings of harmonic adamance across boundless starfields of beckoning promise...