'He had a mystical aura': cellist Guy Johnston on John Tavener's masterpiece The Protecting Veil | Classical music

His transcendent work was nominated for the Mercury prize – and today, in what would have been the composer’s 80th birthday year, it speaks even more deeply at a time of global strife

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