Chester Music

Sea Runes is scored for unaccompanied choir AATBBB or SATBBB set to text by George Mackay Brown. It is a haunting and evocative setting of a group of six poems by the Orkney poet, George Mackay Brown...

A work for 13-part unaccompanied SATB choir, with words by William Blake and music by John Tavener. The Tyger was written for Philip Sherrard for his 65th birthday. It was composed in Katounia, Greec...

A piece for unaccompanied SATB choir, the text of which is based on a line from St. Matthew 9:9. The music was written to represent the work of St. Matthew. In three mounting steps, the music represen...

This work for unaccompanied double choir (SATBSATB) was commissioned by the Summer Music Society of Dorset. It was first performed in May 1989 at Sherborne Abbey, Dorset, by the Tallis Scholars conduc...

For SATB Choir A Cappella. Edited by Patrick Little.

This work for unaccompanied SATB choir was commissioned for the opening of the 1990 City of London Festival. The performance was given on the 8th of July by the Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral conducted...

A Cappella for 28 Voices. First performed by the BBC Singers.

This motet for unaccompanied SATB choir was commissioned for the 500th anniversary of King's College, Cambridge. This is a setting in Greek of an Orthodox prayer to Christ as Son and Word, God and Man...

A carol for unaccompanied SATB choir by John Tavener, with words by Mother Thelka. This work was first performed in December 1989 at Westminster Abbey, London, by the Choir of Westminster Abbey conduc...

A short work for unaccompanied SSAATBB choir using a poem based on Serefis' Eonia (The Jasmin). The text uses both English and Greek. This work was commissioned for the 27th Seminar on Contemporary Ch...

This work for unaccompanied SATB soli and choir was commissioned in the name of Sir Thomas Armstrong by the Musicians Benevolent Fund, for performance at the St. Cecilia's Day service in Westminster A...

Corpus Christi, With Cat And Mouse is a setting of fragments selected from the Richard Hill Commonplace Book, an early 16th century manuscript in the library of Balliol College, Oxford. Commissioned b...

For SATB Choir A Cappella. Text: Francis Thompson. Premiere: St Paul's Cathedral Choir under the direction of John Scott, July 1994.

This prayer is the foundation of Orthodox faith in the Holy Trinity. Says Tavener: 'In setting it to music, I have tried to capture something of the deep conjunction and repentance which lie at the he...

Peter Maxwell Davies' 1994 work for unaccompanied SATB choir, using text from George Mackay Brown's 1971 poem A Hoy Calendar. A girdle round the year in five minutes. In twelve clear, simple images Ge...

The mood of As One Who Has Slept, taken from the great liturgy of St. Basil on Easter Saturday morning, is full of awe, silence and expectation. The atmosphere is deeply solemn as we stand before the...

For unaccompanied treble chorus of mixed voices (SSSAAATTTBBB).

A moving work written by Tavener in loving memory of his father. For solo tenor (or baritone) and unaccompanied choir SATB, with optional strings.

For solo tenor (or bass) with small group of basses and unaccompanied SATB choir, composed by Tavener in 1997. 'The Ancient Saints of France (pre-schism) are acknowledged deeply revered by the Orthodo...

In this piece for unaccompanied SATB choir, fervent, dance-like music appears side by side with fear and awe, producing a dramatic contrast. The work was commissioned jointly by the Dean and Chapter o...

This is a wonderful work for unaccompanied SATB choir, to be sung with enormous intensity and sonority. First performed in June 1998 by the Chester Cathedral Choir conducted by David Poulter. This is...

Dear Willoughby was written for the memorial service of Willoughby Pountney in 1998. The Nailsea Choral Society were conducted by Tim Donaldson, with Emilia Pountney (soprano) and Roger Sansom (huntin...

Henryk Miko aj Górecki (1933-2010) was a Polish composer, who at one point was the most popular living classical composer anywhere in the world. His 1972 work, Euntes Ibant Et Flebant (Op. 32) is one...

With Piano part for rehearsal only.

Miniature vocal score for two works for unaccompanied SATB choir, Ikon Of The Nativity and O, Do Not Move. Ikon Of The Nativity was first performed in December 1991 by Cappella Nova conducted by Alan...