John Tavener

45 Festive Christmas Hits for Piano- The Great Piano Solos - Christmas Book is a bumper compendium of 49 Piano solos just in time for Christmas! This collection offers a fantastic combination of festive favourites and contemporaryclassics. All of your favourite Christmas songs are collected in one volume for solo Piano with this Great Piano Solos songbook. Whether you're more of a fan of the traditionals likeAway In A Manger or O Come All Ye Faithful or you prefer those modern Christmas hits like I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day and Fairytale Of New York there is truly somethingfor all tastes. Not only this but there is also an easy-listening section for the smooth and chilled Christmas melodies and a jazz section for arrangements of tunes with a little something extra. Thissongbook is ideal for a beginner to intermediate-pianist who wants a great deal of variety in their Christmas Piano playing. You will be able to impress your family with beautiful playing of the standards and then wake everyoneup after Christmas dinner with your jazzed-up arrangements of classic tunes.  When on a cold winter's night you're warming your bones by a log fire what better addition to this scene than solo Pianorenditions of everyone's favourite Christmas tunes? Whether you want to lead a singalong with your family or just practise your Piano privately the Great Piano Solos Christmas Book will make you thefavourite this festive season.

The Veil of the Temple is a journey from darkness into light. Care and attention has been given to the key chosen for each anthem and to the voicings so that these versions are attractive to the broadest possiblerange of amateur as well as professional singers. The breathtakingly simple Mother Of God here I stand and the quietly ecstatic Awed by the Beauty are for unaccompanied chorus. The remaining three anthems are scoredwith Organ accompaniment: the sonorous You mantle yourself in light; the contemplative What God is we do not know and the radiant O Mary Theotokos.

A special selection of the most poignant expressive and moving themes and melodies all arranged as sumptuous Piano solos. This anthology will bring a tear to your eye and a lump to your throat as you enjoy an absorbing andhugely rewarding selection. The Thirty-one pieces here range from Barber's celebrated Adagio For Strings through Elgar's spectacular Nimrod to popular favourites including Pie Jesu and the theme fromtelevision's Six Feet Under. You will recognise themes and movements as appearing in such films as Schindler's List The Pianist Death In Venice and Elizabeth. These memorable movements havebeen compiled from the album of the same name and lovingly arranged for the solo Piano.

and Epiphany for Mixed Voice Choirs-Noël! is an exciting Christmas collection for Mixed Voice Choirs selected and edited by David Hill. Featuring a beautiful selection of carols and festive pieces these traditional and modern pieces have been wonderfully arranged.    The contents range from the Renaissance to the present featuring some absolute Christmas sheet music favourites and some lesser-known pieces that will no doubt be a pleasant surprise for audiences. Numerous composers are represented in this here from the polyphony of Victoria and Byrd via Bach familiar settings of traditional and lesser known carols through the ages and works by today'scomposers including Richard Rodney Bennett Judith Bingham John Tavener and Judith Weir make Noël! one of the best choices for choirs for Christmas sheet music.Mixed voice choirs of all levels will find new arrangements of favourite carols here as well as stimulating works for the Christmas and Advent periods from the easy to learn to the more challenging and unconventional. Whichever your choir chooses to perform all are guaranteed to impress audiences with their distillation of the Christmas spirit into some incredible music.    For Christmas carol sheet music look no further than Noël! for Mixed Voice Choirs. This great selection will be a joy to perform and an even bigger joy for your audiences to hear. They're fun and at times challenging but the beauty of these anthems and carols will absolutely herald in the festive spirit for performers and listeners alike.

John Tavener's Coplas composed in 1970 for unaccompanied SATB Choir.'Coplas is a short anthem for voices and tape. It belongs to a much larger work called 'Last Rites' which I have beenthinking about for about a year. It is based on the mystical idea of St. John of the Cross which obsesses me - 'the more I live the more I must die.' Hence the deliberately static nature of Coplas.In once sense Coplas is aprolonged decoration of the 'et sepultus est' cadence from the Crucifixus in Bach's Mass in B minor. In another sense I think of it not so much as my music but a way of listening to Bach's music.' - JohnTavener

This album features 16 of John Tavener's anthems for SATB choir. Contents include: 'A Christmas Round' 'Advent Antiphon' 'Agnus Dei' 'As one who has slept' 'Exhortation and Kohima' 'TheFounder’s Prayer' 'God is with us (A Christmas Proclamation)' 'A Hymn to the Mother of God' 'The Lamb' 'Mother of God here I stand' 'Nunc dimittis' 'O that we were there' 'Rocking' 'Song for Athene' 'Today theVirgin' and 'What God is we do not know'.

Commissioned by the Guildford Philharmonic for the Tallis Scholars. First performance by the Tallis Scholars on 10th March 2000 at Holy Trinity Church Guildford. Arranged for unaccompanied choir SATB. The Lord'sPrayer should be sung very quietly with an inner serenity and calm that is almost 'silent'.

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 Prophets andco-redemptress with Christ. But behind all this is the Theophanic Light single and infinite and the same in every Religious tradition. The music is at once tender ecstatic and luminous and follows the text. I have interpolatedinto Brian Keeble’s poem texts celebrating the Eternal feminine in Greek and then at the climax an outburst in Sanskrit of ATMA. This is supreme Reality the true Self shining and infinite the one single God expressedin music by pulsating awesome strokes on the Hindu Temple Gong with organ and choir in massive blocks. This seems to say that the real ‘Mother and Child’ are both beyond birth and beyond death and beyond time.'

John Taverner's Western Wind Mass is one of three extant Early Tudor masses bearing that title the others being by Christopher Tye and John Shepherd. They are so named because their canutus firmus derives from a setting of thelove lyric 'Westron wynde when wylle thow blow'. Taverner's extant works are not abundant by William Byrd’s standard but they include eight complete masses three Magnificat settings over twenty motets English adaptations ofhis Latin music a handful of secular songs and a couple of instrumental pieces. This work is for SATB voices and is edited by Anthony G. Petti

Composed in 1990 for solo Clarinet, Timpani, Percussion and Strings, John Tavener's The Repentant Thief was inspired by the biblical story of the two criminals who were crucified alongside Jesus at Golgotha.This work contrasts dance-like material with melancholy laments, bound together by a refrain with a recitative-like character, recalling Greek folk and Orthodox traditions.This edition is for Clarinet with Piano reduction. / Clarinette Et Piano

Une oeuvre sacrée pour choeur SSATBB non accompagné, à l'aide de texte de l'ordre pour l'enterrement de Dead prêtres, traduit du grec par Isabel Hapgood. Partition vocale avec accompagnement au piano à des fins de répétition. / Chant Et Piano

Pour choeur SATB non accompagné, à partir Magnificat and Nunc dimittis.Cette oeuvre a été commandée par les choeurs nationaux de la jeunesse de la Grande-Bretagne. Première représentation le 9 Avril 2012, à la Royal Albert Hall, Londres, dirigé par Mike Brewer. / Choeur SATB