John Tavener

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The Lamb is John Tavener's setting of William Blake's poem for unaccompanied SATB (Soprano/Alto/Tenor/Bass) choir. John Tavener's mesmerising choral work The Lamb hasbeen a firm favourite since its composition in 1982. Audiences love the beautiful simplicity of the words and the lush harmonies that the different Vocal parts create. The piece was composed by Tavener in just oneafternoon and was dedicated to his nephew's third birthday. Although the piece is unaccompanied a Piano accompaniment is included for rehearsal purposes. This particular piece is challenging yet rewarding with divergent almost discordant parts in the first verse as the poem asks ambiguous questions. During the second verse however the song breaks into an uplifting harmony as the poem resolves to an epiphany. When performed well TheLamb is quietly atmospheric and a joy to hear. So for something special for your four-part choir to perform John Tavener's The Lamb is a hauntingly pretty piece that is sure to leave youraudiences speechless.

John Tavener's Ex Maria Virgine is a sequence of Christmas carols their emphasis on the Nativity and the Virgin Mary. Scored for SATB unaccompanied or with Organ the collection isrepresentative of the broad range of Tavener's choral writing. These carols may be performed as the full sequence or as individual pieces: carols such as Ding! Dong! Merrily on High and Unto Us is Born aSon to familiar texts made novel and exciting or Rocking a simple four-part setting sure to become a favourite with choirs of any accomplishment.

Original pieces as well as new arrangements for upper voices of some of the most popular titles from John Tavener's outstandingly varied and extensive list of works for choir.Over the years we can trace a line from theexquisite simplicity of his setting of Blake's The Lamb to the monumental Veil Of The Temple.The arrangements are all for soprano and alto singers with a varying number of parts up to four sopranos and fouraltos (in Ikon Of Saint Hilda). An Organ or Piano accompaniment part is provided as applicable with an additional optional Cello solo in Song For Athene.

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 atGolgotha. 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 withPiano reduction.

Tavener's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis was commissioned by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. First performance on 9th April 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall London conducted by Mike Brewer.Fordouble choir (SSAATTBB/SSAATTBB) and Children's voices (SSSSAA).Composer's NoteThe Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis are both set in Latin. The Magnificat has a festive character and is written for doublechoir with children’s voices. Nunc Dimittis is a very personal and simple response to the beautiful text for SATB.             - John Tavener

Song For Athene, pour chorale SATB non accompagnés, a été commandé par la BBC et écrit dans la mémoire d'Athéna Hariades, décédé en Mars 1993. Le texte est tiré du Hamlet de Shakespeare et le service funèbre orthodoxe. Le travail a d'abord été réalisée à l'enterrement de Diana, princesse de Galles en Septembre 1997 sous le titre Alleluia. Vols de mai des Anges Toi Chantez à ton repos. Martin Neary a mené l'abbaye de Westminster Choir. / Voix