Chanticleer, Tavener - Tavener: Lamentations & Praises
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Artist: Chanticleer, TavenerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-01-29
Music Label: Teldec
Soundtracks:
- Golgotha: The Descent From The Cross
- Stasis I
- "Wherewithal stall a young man..."
- Thrinos
- Epitaphios Procession I: From Golgotha To The Anointing Stone
- The Descent From The Cross II
- Stasis II
- "Let now your mercy..."
- "Your hands have made me..."
- Thrinos
- Epitaphios Procession II: to the Tomb Entrance
- The Descent from the Cross III
- Stasis III
- "Princes have persecuted me..."
- "I awaited Lord Your salvation..."
- "Look upon me and have mercy..."
- Thrinos
- Procession into Hades (into the Tomb)
- Resurrection in Hades
Free Music Notes for Tavener: Lamentations & Praises
Free Music Review: Please don't encourage him.
Hit: 1 Stars
pretentious, pri-ten'shus, a. Full of pretension; pretending to or falsely claiming talents, skills, or qualities. This guy's got it all, mysterious sounding names for his compositions AND mysteriouser sounding chants and resonances, but most mysterioustist is how anyone can even stand to listen to this claptrap. Maybe that's why this jerk has gotten so much press, people don't understand his mystical Eleusinian sensibility and are curious as to what he knows that the rest of us don't. Well, here's a secret I'll be glad to share. Often, people with below average talent or inspiration tend to try to veil their inadequacies in whatever way they can. Apparently, Tavener has found his vehicle. At any rate, don't believe the hype: I laughed more when I heard this than when I sampled the Macho Man's rap album.
Tavener: Lamentations & Praises Poster
The composer calls this work "a liturgical drama," but there is nothing dramatic about it; it is more aptly described by the title of its three main sections, "Stasis." Set to texts from the Greek and Russian Orthodox Easter service sung in English interspersed with ancient Greek words, it is scored for male voices and an odd combination of strings, winds, and extra-large percussion instruments including a Byzantine monastery bell, a Tibetan temple bowl, a tam-tam, and a simantron (a wooden board struck with a hammer). The music, in Tavener's characteristic medieval, monastic, Byzantine style, is devout, contemplative, very slow, with endlessly sustained notes and chords, and based on structurally determined repetition. Anchored by bass or descant drones, the chorus moves in parallel chordal progressions, alternating with ornate, melismatic solos, and punctuated by regularly repeated crashes from the bell and bowl. Variety is created through changes of key, vocal and instrumental texture, and motivic material. Several sections culminate in climactic buildups of volume and intensity. Some of the music is very beautiful, but its repetitiousness and basically unchanging character make a sense of monotony unavoidable. Perhaps only listeners who share Tavener's own deep spirituality can fully enter into his musical world. The performance by Chanticleer is wonderful. The voices float with a transparent, pure, otherworldly sound--it seems unbelievable that the altos and sopranos, who go up to high F's and G's, are really male singers--and the instruments match them perfectly in tone and style. --Edith EislerClassical Music CDs
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