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

Traduction

John Tavener. Marienhymne. Partitions. 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.

Traduction

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 était cette créature rare, un compositeur de musique sérieuse et musique religieuse sérieuse, qui a également obtenu 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.