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Download Booklet 99 WORDS 1 SVYATI SIR JOHN TAVENER свѧти боже · свѧтIи крѣпъкIи · Holy God, Holy and Strong, ROXANNA PANUFNIK свѧтIи бесъмрьтьнIи · помилоуи насъ Holy and Immortal, have mercy upon us. 1 Svyati John Tavener [13.08] This work was commissioned by Cricklade Ikon of Christ, it must be played without Choir & Cello Music Festival with funds from Southern Arts. any sentiment of a Western character, but It was first performed at the Cricklade Music should derive from the chanting of the Eastern 2 Heav’nly Harmony * Roxanna Panufnik [6.27] Choir & Organ Festival on 1st October 1995, by the Kiev Orthodox Church. Chamber Choir with Steven Isserlis (cello), John Tavener 3 Look in thy Glass * John Tavener [4.07] Choir directed by Mykola Gobdych. 2 HEAV’NLY HARMONY * 4 99 Words to my Darling Children Roxanna Panufnik music [7.06] I began to write Svyati in early 1995: while Narrator, Choir & Cello John Tavener words sketching it, Iearned that John Williams, father From harmony, from Heav’nly harmony 5 Improvisation on Tavener themes * Matthew Barley [5.08] of Jane, my dear friend and publisher, was This universal frame began. Cello dying. I could not refrain from dedicating it to When Nature underneath a heap 6 Threnos John Tavener [6.24] Jane and to the memory of her father. Of jarring atoms lay, Cello And could not heave her head, 7 The Tablet of your Heart * Roxanna Panufnik [5.11] The text is in Church Slavonic, and it is used at The tuneful voice was heard from high, Choir & Organ almost every Russian Orthodox service, perhaps Arise ye more than dead. Charlotte Langley - soprano solo most poignantly after the congregation have 8 Maha Maya * John Tavener [11.12] kissed the body in an open coffin at an Orthodox From harmony, from Heav’nly harmony Choir & Organ funeral. The choir sings as the coffin is closed This universal frame began: and borne out of the church, followed by the From harmony to harmony Total timings: [58.46] mourners with lighted candles. The cello Through all the compass of the notes it ran, * Premiere Recording represents the Priest or Ikon of Christ, and The diapason closing full in man. should play at a distance from the choir, perhaps The trumpet’s loud clangor VOCE CHAMBER CHOIR • SUZI DIGBY CONDUCTOR at the opposite end of the building. As in Excites us to arms MATTHEW BARLEY CELLO • JAMES SHERLOCK ORGAN Greek drama, choir and priest are in dialogue With shrill notes of anger SIMON RUSSELL BEALE NARRATOR with each other. Since the cello represents the And mortal alarms. www.signumrecords.com - 3 - The soft complaining flute my English Lit O’ level) to find a suitable text. Or who is he so fond will be the tomb 4 99 WORDS to MY In dying notes discovers These verses from Dryden’s A Song of Saint Of his self-love, to stop posterity? DARLING CHILDREN The woes of hopeless lovers, Cecilia’s Day (1687) couldn’t been more perfect Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee Whose dirge is whisper’d by the warbling lute. – the mention of various instruments are Calls back the lovely April of her prime; What we know is ringed with darkness; God, easily expressed in the new organ’s many So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, however, sees it as light. Find the courage to Sharp violins proclaim sublime stops and the drama of the poem Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time. trust this Reality; remember God every day. Their jealous pangs, and desperation, ideally suits such a versatile and expressive But if thou live, remember’d not to be, Strive to embrace all creations. If we are with Fury, frantic indignation, instrument. Die single, and thine image dies with thee. God when all is well, He will be with us when Depth of pains and height of passion, William Shakespeare life wounds. Seek what exalts you, and live ‘à For the fair, disdainful dame. I would like to thank Dean Close for commissioning tous risques’. Life is a dream, but it is not our This commission was supported by the Ministry dream. All that happens to you is sent from God. But oh! what art can teach the piece, The Rt. Hon. David and Mrs Hicks of Education and Culture in Iceland and is Aspire to that state of bliss which inhabits all What human voice can reach Beach for supporting the commission and dedicated to Hilmar Örn Agnarsson and the things. For ‘God is a beautiful being, and He The sacred organ’s praise? Alistair Langlands for introducing me to the South Iceland Chamber Choir. The work was loves beauty.’ Your true Self is God. Notes inspiring holy love, delights of Dryden. first performed by the South Iceland Chamber 99 words for my darling children Theodora, Sofia Notes that wing their Heav’nly ways Choir at Southwark Cathedral, London, on 15th and Orlando, by John Tavener To mend the choirs above. The piece is dedicated to Dean Close School and lasts approximately 6 minutes. November 2013. From harmony, from Heav’nly harmony Roxanna Panufnik Always having been an enormous fan of Sir This universal frame began: This set of Three Shakespeare Sonnets was John Tavener’s music, during a beautiful Service From harmony to harmony, 3 LOOK IN THY GLASS one of the first works that I composed after of Thanksgiving for his life and work at The dead shall live, the living die, serious illness in 2007. I wanted to pay tribute Westminster Abbey in June 2014, I was incredibly And music shall untune the sky. Sonnet III to my wife, Maryanna, who nursed me back moved by his oldest daughter, Theodora, reading John Dryden (1631-1700) to some degree of health, so I turned to the these ‘99 Words for my Darling Children, Theodora, Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest Shakespeare Sonnets. I was delighted to find Sofia and Orlando’. As well as being a deeply When Dean Close School approached me to Now is the time that face should form another; that they brought forth music once again, after inspiring mantra for how he wanted his children write an anthem to celebrate the launch of Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, I had been silent for so long. to live their lives, there seemed to be so many their new, exclusively made and exquisite organ Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. John Tavener parallels with my own personal history. Like I turned to one of my remarkably generous For where is she so fair whose unear’d womb Theodora, I had lost a composer father whose ex-English teachers (especially since I failed Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? musical legacy is sometimes comforting but - 4 - - 5 - can also feel incredibly raw. Like Sir John and Proceeds from this recording will go towards My Child, keep my words Looking further at the surrounding verses, I was his wife Maryanna, I too have 3 children – two the Tavener Foundation, which promotes access and store up my commandments with you; very moved by the warm and nurturing context older girls and a younger boy. And these words to John’s and other classical music, as well as keep my commandments and live, in which these words were set and incorporated sum up everything that I would wish upon my harmony through music, between faiths. keep my teachings as the apple of your eye; more of them. The action of ‘bind’ing them own children. Roxanna Panufnik bind them on your fingers, around fingers inspired me to create a winding write them on the tablet of your heart. and intertwining texture within the choir - each My immediate reaction on hearing the reading 6 THRENOS part singing an ancient Middle Eastern-sounding was a desire to set them to music and just as I From the Anglicized NRSV, from Proverbs: 3, 6, 7 scale, wrapping the refrain in blanket of gently Threnos (Lament) for solo cello was composed was writing to Maryanna to ask her permission, flowing harmonies. conductor Suzi Digby OBE, contacted me and late in 1990, for Stephen Isserlis. The title, When The Tablet asked me to write a motet to Tavener writes, ‘has both liturgical and folk asked if I’d consider setting them for her Voce be performed at their 175th birthday mass The motet is dedicated to The Tablet on the significance in Greece - the Threnos of the Chamber Choir. (16th May, 2015, Westminster Cathedral, occasion of their 175th birthday and lasts about Mother of God sung at the Epitaphios on Good London), they specified two particular lines 4’30”. I am so grateful to the Tablet for the Friday and the Threnos of mourning which is The music I’ve written for this rocks gently, like from the bible’s Book of Proverbs: “Keep my commission and the inspiring words to set. a lullaby. The words are so important that chanted over the dead body on the house of a commandments and live, keep my teachings Roxanna Panufnik I’ve made sure you hear everyone one of them close friend.’ Tavener wrote his Threnos to as the apple of your eye; bind them on your by having them first narrated and then sung. commemorate the death of a close friend. fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.” Michael Stewart The ‘cello represents John – supporting, encouraging and embellishing the words. I 7 THE TABLET OF YOUR HEART have been longing to write for ‘cellist Matthew My Child, do not forget my teaching, Barley for a considerable time so I’m deeply 8 MAHA MAYA honoured that he is premiering this.
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