GUY JOHNSTON RECORDING: TAVENER’S THE PROTECTING VEIL
Britten Sinfonia are thrilled to be reprising their acclaimed performances last February with Guy Johnston of Tavener’s masterpiece The Protecting Veil. Funds raised will go towards a performance at the Hatfield House Music Festival this October, as well as recording and filming at St Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral, where John Tavener used to worship, in London.
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“You find yourself engaged anyway by the sheer power of Tavener’s spirituality, and nowhere more so than at the work’s heart. The orchestra falls silent and the cello soloist — here the admirable Guy Johnston — portrays Mary at the foot of the cross in a movement that fuses ancient chants into a lamentation that seems to lay bare the very soul of the instrument.”