Format : Vocal Score
Song For Athene for unaccompanied SATB choir was commissioned by the BBC and written in memory of Athene Hariades who died in March 1993. The text is taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Orthodox FuneralService. The work was first performed at the funeral of Diana Princess of Wales in September 1997 under the title Alleluia. May Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest. Martin Neary conducted the Westminster AbbeyChoir.
SKU: HL.14043878
UPC: 888680610586. 6.75x10.5x0.037 inches.
Now available in an arrangement for upper voices, organ and optional cello, Song For Athene is a work by British composer John Tavener. The text is taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet, as well as from the Orthodox Funeral Service. The entire work lasts around 7 minutes.
SKU: HL.14063892
ISBN 9781785588341. UPC: 840126939231. 6.75x9.75x0.304 inches.
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'.