Fall and Resurrection

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16:9 Anamorphic - Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - Colour - 96 Minutes - PAL / NTSC

Includes:
-"The Eye of the Heart": Sir John Tavener talks about his beliefs and music
-Introduction to the work and interview with Sir John Tavener by Stephanie Hughes

Fall and Resurrection is a deeply religious work. It tries to encompass, in brief glimpses the events which have taken place since the beginning of time, but with reference to Christian doctrine. The work begins in total silence, in the Paradise of God. Building from this silence, deep hushed notes develop into a colossal storm, the pre-creation chaos. Out of this chaos God's world is created, in which Adam and Eve sing to each other and to God. A rams-horn sounds The Fall, and the first section of the work closes with 'Paradise lost'.

In the second section of the work, verses or hints from the prophets and the psalms are sung by the countertenor, interspersed with dance-like music for the kaval (a form of the nay flute). The third and final section, introduced by the organ represents an eternal act. At the moment of crucifixion, an apparent return to the thunderous cacophony of the uncreated chaos occurs.

Tavener says the work should be performed in a building with a large acoustic. The resonance of ancient instruments - the kaval, the rams-horn trumpet and the Tibetan temple bowls - brings to mind and soul something primordial, something lost, something innocent, something wild and untamed.

Starring Patricia Rozario, Michael Chance, Martyn Hill, Stephen Richardson, BBC Singers, St Paul's Cathedral Choir, City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox