Compassion: A Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin
2001 John TavernerSong of the Angel Angel EMI 7243 5 57179 2 4
Ulf Hoelscher, violin
Susan Narucki, soprano
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Lukas Foss conductor
Song of the Angel is based on the traditional concept of the only word sung by angels - “Hallelujah.” Since angels are sexless, the music was conceived without human emotion. So it is the self rather than myself which sings. In the words of Dr. Anada Coomaraswamy, one of the traditionalist writers on art in the 20th century “like all music of the East it should reveal tranquility and eternal, angelic, ecstatic breath which liberates and humanizes”
John Tavener
