The anthem Mother of God, here I stand was sponsored by the Toulmin Family, and it is dedicated to the Choir of the Temple Church, its Director of Music, Stephen Layton, and the Master of the Temple,...
Svyati - 'O Holy One' for choir and solo cello. Text in church Slavonic. Quoting Tavener: 'I began to write Svyati in early 1995: while sketching it, Iearned that John Williams, father of Jane, my dea...
Adopting the text from The Bridegroom Services of Orthodox Holy Week, this work for Four Female Voices and String Quartet was premiered by the Chilingirian Quartet and the Anonymous Four. String Part...
The Lamb
The Lamb is John Tavener 's setting of a poem by William Blake, arranged here for unaccompanied Upper Voices by Barry Rose. The work lasts around 3 minutes. The Lamb has long been a favourite of...
Commissioned for Tenebrae and their director, Nigel Short. John Tavener writes: Mother and Child celebrates the miracle of childbirth. It also celebrates Mary in her universal aspect as mother of all...
A short piece for bass voice solo and piano, using words from Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.
In this small-scale song cycle, Taverner coloured his melodic Soprano lines with Eastern European and Slavic flavour. At some points the composer interplayed the Piano line with the sung melody and at...
A calm and quietly ecstatic work for solo soprano, solo violin and string group (composed of violin I, violin II, viola, cello and double bass).
Premiered by Yo Yo Ma. Quoting Tavener: It was while pondering these traditional dicta that I began to write the opening solo melody for the cello. It is in fact a palindrome because waking and dying...
