Matériel : Partition
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.
SKU: HL.14032852
ISBN 9780711927827. UPC: 888680053086. 7.0x10.0x0.014 inches.
A short work for unaccompanied SSAATBB choir using a poem based on Serefis' Eonia (The Jasmin). The text uses both English and Greek. This work was commissioned for the 27th Seminar on Contemporary Choral Music, University College, Cork, Ireland, May 1990.
SKU: HL.14016691
UPC: 884088815219. 8.5x11.0x0.138 inches.
This work is scored for Solo Viola, SATB Choir and Percussion. Tropoction of Cassiane.
SKU: HL.14043287
8.25x11.75x0.085 inches.
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 been thinking 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 a prolonged 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. ' - John Tavener.
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'.
SKU: HL.14043071
6.75x9.75x0.05 inches.
The world premiere of A New Commandment , a piece by the late Sir John Tavener specially commissioned for Summer Fields, was in February 2014 at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. This work was possibly one of his very last commissions before his sudden and untimely death in November 2013. COMPOSER'S NOTE I have set these words from St John's Gospel many times, because I feel them to be among the most profound and therefore key texts in the Christian faith. This setting falls into three sections with an ABA structure. A New Commandment is dedicated to my mother-in-law Mary, but it is also an unspoken tribute to the Spanish master Victoria who has inspired methroughout my life..
SKU: HL.14043326
UPC: 888680046651. 10.0x6.75x0.078 inches.
John Tavener's Preces and Responses for Double Choir were commissioned by Cathedral Commissions of Wells Cathedral and were first performed on Sunday 18th May 2014 during New Music Wells 74-14, by Wells Cathedral Choir conducted by Matthew Owens.
SKU: HL.14048014
UPC: 888680651619. 6.75x9.75 inches. English.
Ecce Puer is a composition by John Tavener for unaccompanied SATBB choir. A setting of one of James Joyce's poems, a full performance lasts around 2 and a half minutes.
SKU: HL.14047980
UPC: 888680643355. 6.75x9.75 inches.
John Tavener's Apolytikion of Saint Nicholas, is scored for unaccompanied SATB chorus. This work was first performed on 11th November 1997 by the choir of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, London. A full performance of the piece lasts around 1 1/2 minutes.
SKU: HL.14042004
6.75x9.75x0.037 inches.
Commissione d for Cappella Nova's 30th Anniversary by Jyotipakshini. First performed on 30th May 2012, at St. Andrew's-in-the-square,Gl asgow, by Cappella Nova directed by Alan Tavener.
SKU: HL.14043188
6.75x9.75x0.068 inches.
This commission was supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Iceland and is dedicated to Hilmar Orn Agnarsson and The South Iceland Chamber Choir. The Three Shakespeare Sonnets was one of the first works that Tavener composed after serious illness in 2007. He wanted to pay tribute to his wife, Maryanna, who nursed him back to some degree of health, so he turned to the Shakespeare Sonnets and was delighted to find that they brought forth music once again, after having been silent for so long.
SKU: HL.14032332
UPC: 884088811785. 8.5x11.0x0.054 inches.
SKU: HL.284542
Ex Maria Virgine was commissioned by Timothy Brown and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, with the generous support of Paul Lee. The first performance was given on 12th December 2008 in the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge, by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge with Simon Thomas Jacobs ( organ) conducted by Timothy Brown.
SKU: HL.284541
Ex Maria Virgine was commissioned by Timothy Brown and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, with the generous support of Paul Lee. The first performance was given on 12th December 2008 in the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge, by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge with Simon Thomas Jacobs (organ) conducted by Timothy Brown.
