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RECORDING CREDITS
in the present
'This new NMC portrait disc confirms Bennett as composer laureate of the surreal and the embellished' MusicalCriticism
’ The Guardian
MIKE SKEET Recording Engineer
John Tavener: Akhmatova Requiem Composer_Taylor; Matthew RECORDING CREDITSTavener'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