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Tavener: Flood of Beauty test
with Britten Sinfonia and Britten Sinfonia Voices
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Barbican Arts Centre | London
Sun 28-Sep-14
07:30 PM
Programme
Sheema Mukherjee – sitar
Britten Sinfonia Voices – (including vocal students from Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
Eamonn Dougan – Britten Sinfonia Voices Director
Performers
Natalie Clein – Cello
Programme Note
The Britten Sinfonia premieres Sir John Tavener’s last major concert work, Flood of Beauty (Saundarya Lahari). Based on a Sanskrit poem by the 9th-century philosopher and poet Sankara, the piece is an attempt to show the rapture and bliss of the Divine Being through Hinduism – following Tavener's many revered musical journeys through Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Flood of Beauty was devised by the late composer, who would have turned 70 this year, to be performed with the instruments of a normal symphony orchestra, but all spaced around the auditorium – with Indian classical instruments tabla and sitar completing the ensemble.
'The audience, so that they are, as it were, "surrounded" by bliss and beauty' Sir John Tavener