John Tavener

POD-John Tavener's 1984 work A Mini Song-Cycle For Gina for Soprano and Piano was written for Gina Cowen who gave the first performance along with Judith Ginsburg at St John's Church Ladbroke Grove London on 3rd April 1986. Text by W.B. Yeats.This is a special item which is made to order.

Written in memory of innocent victims this dramatic piece is ideally performed within a church. It uses texts form the Gospels St Ephrem the Syrian the Old testament Shakespeare and from Mathnawi of Jalal al-Din Rumi.The work begins in a musical wasteland seemingly hopeless and without redemption. Words are turned upside down with apocalyptic screams from the organ. The work ends with an echo of this opening but the suffering this time isinside redemption. All the various streams come from this and flow back into it in the pianissimo canon “The son of man is come to save that which is lost.” Contains detailed performance suggestions; duration is25 minutes.

This work for solo B SA semichorus SATB choir and organ was commissioned by the Friends of Bath Abbey to mark the 500th anniversary of the consecration of the present church begun in 1499 by Bishop Oliver King. It was firstperformed in October 1999 by the Choirs of Bath Abbey conducted by Peter King.This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

This work was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and was first performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London in June 1972. James Bowman and Kevin Smith were the soloists with members of the London Sinfonietta conducted by the composer. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

In Memory was written in memory of Glen Schaefer and all the departed souls of America. The words come from the Orthodox Funeral Service and from a text by Mother Thekla. For SATB Choir A Cappella. John Tavener: The musicshould be sung with a shining solemnity and should ideally be performed in a church or other building with reverberant acoustics. The solo bass sections refer to St Hermann of Alaska (the pre-eminent Orthodox saint of theAmericas) and should be performed in the manner of a Byzantine pasltis.

Large score for this work for three trumpets and three trombones (two tenor and one bass).This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

A work for unaccompanied SATTBB choir constructed in the form of a Byzantine Canon. The work was commissioned by James Lancelot and the Choir of Durham Cathedral who gave the first performance on the occasion of the 1300thanniversary of the death of St. Cuthbert: 20th March 1987.'Commissioned by James Lancelot and the Choir of Durham Cathedral who gave its first performance on the 20th of March 1987 the 1300th anniversary of St Cuthbert's death. Structurally modelled on a Byzantine Canon Ikon of St Cuthbert 'an ikon of music and words in the place of wood and paint seeks to recall in its stylized form the personal aura of Cuthbert Saint of Lindisfarne'. The textis again by Mother Thekla a contemplation on Cuthbert's life from his early piety and life as a monk acts of spiritual healing consecration as a bishop and retreat into solitude to his death on Farne and ultimate burial inDurham. Imagery of water runs throughout the verses.

The piece was commissioned by the Wets Cork Chamber Music Festival and was first performed in July 1999 in Cork Ireland by the Vanbrugh String Orchestra and Patricia Rozario (soprano).Quoting Tavener: The World for string quartet and soprano solo should be performed at maximum intensity throughout. White hot white cold intensely loud intensely soft almost unbearable that which is nowhere and everywhere not human but divine - theanthropic.Set of parts.

Full Score for John Tavener's Three Hymns Of George Herbert for SATB chorus percussion and strings. Commissioned by the Legatum Institute [www.LI.com] as part of its ?British and American Notions of Liberty?programme in the year of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. First performance on 21st April 2013 in Washington National Cathedral by the City Choir of Washington conducted by Robert Shafer.'The ThreeHymns of George Herbert were written after a long illness and represent for me a Hymn of thanksgiving to God for a relative return to health. They are intended to be sung in a large resonant acoustic with the main choir andstring orchestra at one end of the building and an echo choir and string quartet at the other. The percussion (tubular bells gongs and tam-tams) should sound from a gallery or other raised position.The Hymns wereinspired by the transparent poetry of George Herbert and are dedicated in gratitude and love to the memory of Mother Thekla former Abbess of the Orthodox Monastery of the Assumption Normanby near Whitby who died in 2011.' -John Tavener

Sunrise In Your Heart text by Kathleen Raine with an interpolation from Sioux Indian sources.

A setting of a selection from the Panikhida Service (Service For Those Fallen Away). For unaccompanied SATB choir. Large (A3) score. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

John Tavener's Pluies is a work for Solo Mezzo-Soprano SATB Chorus and String Quartet. The piece was first performed on 31st January 2015 and lasts around 5 minutes. This is the set of String QuartetParts. The words for Pluies come from a poem of the same name by Saint-John Perse. 

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 Carols. This arrangementfor strings may be performed by strings alone or with choir. Score and parts for the string version are available on hire.Choral version on sale: Order No. CH55570