7.30pm
The Choir of the Temple Church, London, Holst Singers
The Temple Church, London
Tavener: The Veil of the Temple - All-Night Vigil (World Premiere)
Reviews
Audiophile Audition2005Tavener's The Veil of the Temple is massive in scale and influence; the sheer number of singers (more than 200), in combination with orchestrations encompassing elements of mid-eastern, eastern Indian, Tibetan and traditional…Read the review 
The Church Times2003Worth staying up for The Temple Church is a fine 13th-century building: soundly designed, and vested in the legal grandeur of the Bar. The lawyers of the Inner and Middle Temple raised almost half a million pounds to commission…Read the review 
The Daily Telegraph2003Long night's journey into elation For John Tavener, music isn't just about music. It's a way of stilling the mind, so as to focus on the emptiness that the mystics tell us is the essence of the Divine. The trouble with trying to…Read the review 
The Independent2003This is John Tavener's magnum opus. At seven hours' duration, lasting from dusk to dawn, The Veil of the Temple is one of the longest continuous choral pieces ever written. Around 150 performers take part in a score requiring…Read the review 
The Los Angeles Times2003All-night journey traverses the soul John Tavener's seven-hour "Veil of the Temple" unfolds in cycles, with spiritual peaks and valleys. LONDON -- As if for a red-eye flight, we were advised to arrive at Temple Church an hour…Read the review 
The Tablet2003Dawn breaks over the Temple Sir John Tavener’s latest work brings together East and West in a highly ambitious musical and spiritual epic. On Friday last week at 10 p.m., just off Fleet Street in London, long after the lawyers of…Read the review 
The Times2003Tavener's musical pilgrimage had run for seven hours,yet from first to last it was mesmerising Once in a while even the most heartless hack must cast aside professional scepticism and gush like a groupie. Perhaps it's the heat…Read the review