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Original

John Tavener. Marienhymne. Sheet Music. SATB, SSAA. SATB. SSAA. John Tavener.

Traducció

John Tavener. Marienhymne. Partitures. SATB, SSAA. SATB. SSAA. John Tavener.

Original

Marienhymne is a piece on a smaller scale than Tavener’s dramatic cantatas, and is written for unaccompanied choir and semiChorus. Tavener was drawn to writer and philosopher Frithjof Schuon’s vision of the Virgin Mary as universal and primordial Woman and has used an extract from his work Maria as the libretto, in German, for this piece. The composer calls for ‘radiance and ecstasy’ and also a ‘great distance’ between the main choir and the echo choir. John Tavener was that rare creature, a composer of serious music and serious religious music, who also achieved commercial success. He burst into the popular consciousness with the performance of his Song for Athene at the funeral of Princess Diana, but had been a highly respected and frequently-performed composer since the premiere of his dramatic cantata The Whale in 1968.

Traducció

Marienhymne is a piece on a smaller scale than Tavener’s dramatic cantatas, and is written for unaccompanied choir and semiChorus. Tavener was drawn to writer and philosopher Frithjof Schuon’s vision of the Virgin Mary as universal and primordial Woman and has used an extract from his work Maria as the libretto, in German, for this piece. The composer calls for ‘radiance and ecstasy’ and also a ‘great distance’ between the main choir and the echo choir. John Tavener era aquesta criatura rara, un compositor de música seriosa i la música religiosa seriosa, que també va aconseguir l'èxit comercial. Va irrompre en la consciència popular amb l'actuació del seu Cançó d'Atenea al funeral de la princesa Diana, però havia estat un molt respectat i compositor freqüentment realitzat des de l'estrena de la seva cantata dramàtica The Whale el 1968.