I\'ve always felt that Taverner\'s music is explicitly or externally Orthodox while Part\'s music is implicity or internally Orthodox. In other words, Taverner wears it like a cloak while Part \"hides it in his heart\".
In watching the documentary \"24 preludes for a Fugue\" about Part and his work I was struck by his humility and sweet spirit. It seems his music wells up from an intense spiritual hunger and the result is something more fully integrated/digested in respects to Orthodox spirituality.
On the other hand, Taverner strikes me as more in the vein of the self-absorbed artist who crafts things in his brilliant mind and tends to pursue it as an end in itself. I was not completely surprised when I came across the article mentioned above a few years ago. It describes someone who has, IMO, an unhealthy trust in their own understanding and means, spiritually speaking. As a psychiatrist I would say he has many of the hallmarks of the narcissist.
For what it\'s worth.
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