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- John Tavener
Funeral Ikos (1981)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
- SSATBB
- 12 min
- English
- 23rd November 2024, Shanghai, China
- 12th April 2025, St Martin in the Fields, London, United Kingdom
Programme Note
Funeral Ikos was written in 1981 when Tavener was 37. It is a serene setting of words which are probably unfamiliar to most of us and which a simple statement of the reward in Paradise for the Righteous Ones. The music shows the influence of Stravinsky, who used a similar homophonic style for some of this religious settings, but Tavener's music is, in this piece, much simpler harmonically. Indeed much of it is in unison allowing the full impact of the words to shine through. Nevertheless there is no doubt that the sensitive musicality, in which the sounds are almost just an accompaniment to the words, can only have been achieved by an extraordinary sensitive composer of deep religious conviction.
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