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Original

John Tavener. Epistle Of Love. Sheet Music. Piano, Soprano. PF. SOP. John Tavener.

Traduction

John Tavener. Épître Of Love. Partitions. Piano, Soprano. PF. SOP. John Tavener.

Original

In this small-scale song cycle, Taverner coloured his melodic Soprano lines with Eastern European and Slavic flavour. At some points the composer interplayed the Piano line with the sung melody and at other times used the Piano as drone and allows the Vocal line to soar above. The ‘love’ of the title is, according to the composer, ‘the notion of Eros raised to the divine,’ and the texts are written mostly by monks. John Tavener was that rare creature, a composer of serious music and serious religious music, who has 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.

Traduction

In this small-scale song cycle, Taverner coloured his melodic Soprano lines with Eastern European and Slavic flavour. At some points the composer interplayed the Piano line with the sung melody and at other times used the Piano as drone and allows the Vocal line to soar above. The ‘love’ of the title is, according to the composer, ‘the notion of Eros raised to the divine,’ and the texts are written mostly by monks. John Tavener était cette créature rare, un compositeur de musique sérieuse et musique religieuse sérieuse, qui a également un succès commercial. Il fait irruption dans la conscience populaire de la performance de son Song for Athene à l'enterrement de la princesse Diana, mais avait été un très respecté et compositeur fréquemment réalisées depuis la première de sa cantate dramatique The Whale en 1968.