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This latest recording once again showcases his singers' effortless versatility both as choristers and soloists...One of Tenebrae's great strengths is to bring both dignity and panache to these... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2025, August 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Choral
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This affecting collection contains music for mourning and remembrance...The great experience and skill of these singers provide perfect tuning in pieces such as Tallis’s In ieiunio (sung at... —
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Special offer. Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano) & John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone), Elise Ross (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Nash Ensemble, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
this heartfelt setting of Anna Akhmatova's blistering condemnation of Stalinist atrocities still packs an enormous punch...The Requiem grips from the start...Phyllis Bryn-Julson is on strong... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2014, Re-issue of the Month
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Tavener: No longer mourn for me & other works for cello
Steven Isserlis (cello), Matthew Rose (bass), Abi Sampa (vocals)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Trinity Boys Choir, Omer Meir Wellber
These are among Tavener’s most powerful works. They are magnificently performed. Those simple points could easily be lost in the necessity of charting not just the diverse range of music and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winer - Premiere Award
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Barley’s playing [of The Protecting Veil] at first feels a touch too restrained, but as the piece progresses [his] restraint proves perfectly judged and a performance of great tenderness and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Special offer. Tavener: Lamentations and Praises, a liturgical drama
RecommendedChanticleer, The Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, Joseph Jennings
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2002, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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One doesn’t often find Thomas Tallis, Edward Elgar and John Tavener sandwiching Massive Attack, but the lovely Teardrop works astonishingly well in this mixed programme devoted to the concept... —
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Bestion’s singers are very flexible, and frequently superb...they are equal to Scelsi’s quartertones; and they can sing ‘straight’ when needed. These stylistic shifts are not jarring. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
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There may have been many Tavener choral CDs in recent years, but this one is very special. —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Special offer. Tavener: The Protecting Veil & Thrinos and Britten: Solo Cello Suite No. 3
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Contemporary
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