Song for Athene, by John Tavener, Westminster Abbey Choir
“Song for Athene is another elegiac tribute, not, as one might suppose, to the mythological goddess Athene, but to a young family friend, Athene Hariades, half Greek, a talented actress who was tragically killed in a cycling accident. “Her beauty,“ write Tavener, “both outward and inner, was reflected in her love of acting, poetry, music and of the Orthodox Church.“ Tavener had heard Athene reading Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey and, rather as in the case of the Little Requiem, conceived the piece after her funeral, lighting on the effective ideas, so touchingly realized, of combining words from the Orthodox liturgy with lines from Hamlet. Between each is a monodic “Alleluia“, and, following the example of traditional Byzantine music, the whole piece unfolds over a continuous “ison“ or drone.
Song for Athene perfectly exemplifies that inner serenity, purity and radiance which gives Tav
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