John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem Composer_Taylor; Matthew in the present

in the present

One senses the extreme complexity but inevitability of this strange combination of leaden

" The Guardian

” Matthew Sergeant’s piece Matters of Matter #4 celebrates the sounds objects or materials make for themselves with two branches bowing a violin’s open strings - creating a seductive

For the first performance of the work Barrett collaborated with Norwegian artist Per Inge Bjørlo

John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem Composer_Taylor; Matthew in the presentTavener's avant garde style of the seventies contrasts with the contemplative beauty of his later works, for which he is best known, yet he spirituality and mysticism is still present. Akhmatova Requiem (1980) sets a sequence of poems written during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s by Anna Akhmatova, describing the terror of having her family and friends arrested and imprisoned, and the lines of relatives waiting hopelessly outside Leningrad jail. To