John Tavener

A collection of Tavener's most popular choral pieces.

Commissioned by the BBC for the series 'Seeing Salvation'. For SATB Choir and Tibetan Temple Bowls.

A Choral Suite in eight movements for SATB (multi divisi). The texts are taken from different sources, including Chuang Tse, an Acoman Indian and a poem written by a young Czech victim of Auschwitz.

John Tavener's Coplas, composed in 1970, for SATB Choir. Score and performance CD. ' Coplas is a short anthem for voices and tape. It belongs to a much larger work called 'Last Rites' which I have bee...

This work for mixed choir and hand bells, set in English, Greek and Slavonic by John Tavener, was commissioned by Francis Grier. Large (A3) score.

Vocal score for this work for SSSSAATBBBB choir. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

Written for viol consort. This work was commissioned by Concordia. First performance by Concordia on 17 July 2004 at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music.

Written for viol consort. This work was commissioned by Concordia. First performance by Concordia on 17 July 2004 at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music.

The Lamb, a setting for unaccompanied choir of words by William Blake, was first performed by the choir of King's College, Cambridge on 24th December 1982, as part of A Festival of Nine Lessons and Ca...

Taken from Veil of the Temple and arranged for string orchestra.

Work for Solo Soprano and large ensemble, commissioned for the 1968 Promenade Season. Text: Charles Peguy and children's prayers.

This work was commissioned by the St. Endellion Festival with financial assistance from South West Arts. The three bass singers consist of a soloist and a duo. The trombones comprise two tenors and tw...

Work for Solo Soprano and Tenor, Timpani, Gongs, Handbells and Strings. Commissioned by the St. David's Cathedral Bach Festival. These settings of sixteen Haiku by the Greek poet, George Seferis (1900...

The Last Sleep of the Virgin was written for string quartet and handbells in 1991. It enacts the story of the falling asleep and burial, by the Apostles, of the Mother of Jesus. This work was commissi...

Hymns Of Paradise, for bass solo, SA chorus and six violins. This work was commissioned by Ross Pople for performance by the London Festival Orchestsra. It was first performed on 27th May 1993 at St P...

This work for viola, chorus and percussion was commissioned by the London Symphony Chorus, and was first performed in October 1994 at the Barbican Hall, London by Yuri Bashmet and the London Symphony...

Score (Cello, Tenor, Soprano, Chamber Group, Hammond Accompaniment) Written in memory of innocent victims, this dramatic piece is ideally performed within a church. It uses texts form the Gospels, St...

Six Russian Folksongs is a work by John Tavener, composed for Soprano Voice and Ensemble. The work was composed for the 15th birthday of the Nash Ensemble.

Tavener's 1994 work for voice and cello.

Set for Solo Soprano and String Quartet as premiered by Patricia Rozario and The Nash Ensemble.

John Tavener 'Agraphon' arranged for soprano, timpani and strings. Commissioned by the Athens Concert Hall, first performed on 29th October 1995. The music contains two symbolic ideas - the first bein...

The Hidden Face is a prayer, for solo counter-tenor, oboe, and a distant group of muted violins and violas. It tries to hold within it a whole tradition with nothing personal or idiosyncratic, as in i...