Ikon of Light
The Sixteen/Harry Christophers Coro 16015
A good introduction to Tavener’s finest choral writing, including The Lamb and the early seven-movement sequence that gives the disc its name.
The Protecting Veil
Steven Isserlis (cello); London Symphony Orchestra/Gennady Rozhdestvensky Erato 3-63293
A classic release of the hypnotically spaced-out score that still wins converts after 18 years. We named the London Symphony Orchestra one of the best orchestras in the world.
Ex Maria Virgine
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge/Timothy Brown Naxos 8.572168
A recent carol sequence that does surprising things to familiar texts.
Requiem
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko EMI 235 1342
In his later, stylistically inclusive mode, the Requiem contains grandiloquence and a state of surrender.
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