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Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Take Me!" (Mary)

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1993 · 37 tracks

01Mary of Egypt: Act I. Prologue "With unearthly stillness"3:09
01Mary of Egypt: Act III. Prologue "With unearthly stillness"1:03
02Mary of Egypt: Act III. "Why run from me" (Zossima)1:00
02Mary of Egypt: Act I. "The ways to salvation" (The Voice)7:23
03Mary of Egypt: Act III. "I pray you" (Mary)1:08
03Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Here I sit and beat my brain" (Zossima)1:28
04Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Grunt and groan" (Swine men and women) / "We bring our wres" (Swine men and women)1:12
04Mary of Egypt: Act III. Duet "I beg you" (Zossima, Mary)7:21
05Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Let me consider, yet once more" (Zossima)2:16
05Mary of Egypt: Act III. "Monk-priest Zossima" (Mary)2:36
06Mary of Egypt: Act III. "Holy, Holy" (Angels)1:23
06Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Grunt and groan" (Swine men and women) / "Come and buy" (Swine men and women)1:21
07Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Never raised a thieving arm" (Zossima)2:56
07Mary of Egypt: Act III. "In Egypt, I lived" (Mary)0:57
08Mary of Egypt: Act I. "We see the cross before us" (Young Men)2:34
08Mary of Egypt: Act III. "But here, my Lady" (Zossima)4:58
09Mary of Egypt: Act IV. The Angels' song0:39
09Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Take Me!" (Mary)2:38
10Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Zossima! The ways to salvation" (The Voice)4:34
10Mary of Egypt: Act IV. Episode I. Zossima searches for Mary1:44
11Mary of Egypt: Act IV. Episode II. Mary walks on the water1:41
11Mary of Egypt: Act II. Prologue "With Unearthly Stillness"2:48
12Mary of Egypt: Act IV. Episode III. Communion1:48
12Mary of Egypt: Act II. "The ways to salvation" (The Voice)1:56
13Mary of Egypt: Act IV. Episode IV. Mary returns on the water1:44
13Mary of Egypt: Act II. "We are the desert monks" (Monks)0:59
14Mary of Egypt: Act II. Aria "And I, the stranger" (Zossima)2:29
14Mary of Egypt: Act IV. Episode V. Zossima goes2:17
15Mary of Egypt: Act II. The Exaltation of the Cross5:00
15Mary of Egypt: Act V. Threnody for Mary3:19
16Mary of Egypt: Act II. The Prayer of Mary "O Virgin Lady" (Mary)4:32
16Mary of Egypt: Act V. "Priest-monk Zossima" (Zossima)3:12
17Mary of Egypt: Act II. "I will praise the Lord" (Monks)5:02
17Love's whirligig1:40
18Mary of Egypt: Act V. "Judge not!" (Chorus)4:25
19Mary of Egypt: Act V. "The ways to salvation" (The Voice)4:03
20John Tavener in conversation with Michael Stewart on Mary of Egypt13:52