28 Jul 2018

TAVENER: Exhortation and Kohima

From Music Alive, 8:00 pm on 28 July 2018

John Tavener’s 'Exhortation and Kohima' was commissioned for the Festival of Remembrance at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 2003.

The Tudor Consort

The Tudor Consort Photo: The Tudor Consort

The Tudor Consort directed by Michael Stewart

 

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,

We will remember them.

From For the Fallen ~ Laurence Binyon

 

When you go home, tell them of us and say:

For your tomorrow, we gave our today.

The Kohima Epitaph ~ John Maxwell Edmonds

 

Recorded 28 July 2018, St Mary of the Angels, Wellington by RNZ Concert

Producer: David McCaw

Engineer: Graham Kennedy