The Protecting Veil

Album by John Tavener & Steven Isserlis & London Symphony Orchestra & Gennadi Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky

The Protecting Veil is an album-length composition by British composer John Tavener, released in 1988. The piece pairs a solo cello with a string ensemble in a meditative, sacred idiom drawing on Eastern Orthodox chant, sustained drones and slow-moving, hymn-like textures, and it exemplifies Tavener's turn towards explicitly spiritual and mystical themes in his later output.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Protecting Veil: The Protecting Veil
  2. 2.
    The Protecting Veil: The Nativity of the Mother of God
  3. 3.
    The Protecting Veil: The Annunciation
  4. 4.
    The Protecting Veil: The Incarnation
  5. 5.
    The Protecting Veil: The Lament of the Mother of God at the Cross
  6. 6.
    The Protecting Veil: The Resurrection
  7. 7.
    The Protecting Veil: The Dormition
  8. 8.
    The Protecting Veil: The Protecting Veil

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Protecting Veil: The Protecting Veil
  2. 3.
    The Protecting Veil: The Nativity of the Mother of God
  3. 4.
    The Protecting Veil: The Annunciation
  4. 5.
    The Protecting Veil: The Incarnation
  5. 6.
    The Protecting Veil: The Lament of the Mother of God at the Cross
  6. 7.
    The Protecting Veil: The Resurrection
  7. 8.
    The Protecting Veil: The Dormition
  8. 9.
    The Protecting Veil: The Protecting Veil

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