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Programme Note

Hymn to the Holy Spirit was written for Christ Church Choir, Oxford and first performed on television at a concert in the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sophia in the presence of His Eminence Archbishop Gregorios. The Hymn is a magnification and invocation to the Holy Spirit 'to come and abide in us'.

Without the in-dwelling of the Holy Spirit, no art concern with the sacred could exist.

John Tavener 1992