Format : Vocal Score
This work was commissioned by the Verbal Arts Centre to mark the opening of its new building at Mall Wall and Stable Lane. 'W.B. Yeats is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. He wrote The Motherof God in between two of his most magnificent poems - Byzantium and Vacillation. The words alone inspired this setting. I read them several times and then the music came to me fully grown.' - JohnTavener
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.14032795
ISBN 9780711960008. 9.0x12.0x0.243 inches.
This singing tableau for voices, instruments and children is based on the story of the Dormition of the mother of God, as recounted in the Apocryphal Gospel of St. John. The work uses an adult choir and instrumental group, and children who enact the story in highly stylised mime sequences. Vocal Score with piano reduction of the orchestra score. Duration c. 60mins.
SKU: HL.14042691
8.25x11.5x0.145 inches.
Vocal 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 Three Hymns 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 And String Orchestra At One EndOf 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 Were Inspired 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.
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.14041484
UPC: 884088593384. 6.75x9.75x0.025 inches.
Work for unaccompanied SATB from Tavener's The Veil Of The Temple.The Veil of the Temple was commissioned by the Temple Music Trust. The world premiere took place on 27th June 2003 at the Temple Church, London,performed by the Choir of the Temple Church and the Holst Singers, with Patricia Rozario (soprano), conducted by Stephen Layton, as part of The City of London Festival, 2003. The anthem Awed by the beauty was arranged in 2005.Byzantine text, translated by Mother Thekla. 'Oh' should be sung as in the 'o' of 'log'. Breathe when necessary, but not simultaneously. ?? and ???? represent microtones, the characteristic 'breaks in the voice' of Eastern chant.
SKU: HL.366160
ISBN 9781705137383. UPC: 840126963434.
Mahámátar is written for Oriental or Middle-Eastern female voice, distant boys' voices (in a vast acoustic), tubular bells and muted strings. The music is an invocation to the Great Mother Mahámátar in Sanskrit, and to the Theotóke (God-bearer) in Greek. Originally written to accompany a film by Werner Herzog which deals with South American Indians who travel for many miles on their knees to venerate the miraculous Ikon of The Mother of God of Guadalupe. Mahámátar may be performed by a solo voice or alternatively the melody could be played by a solo cello, with decorations and improvisations by the singer.
SKU: HL.14043066
O that we were there! is a text taken from the Christmas hymn In Dulci Jubilo . It expresses a longing to be present at the Incarnation of Christ, but it also conveys alonging to be out of the world of time and space, and in an eternal world. Composed in 2012, in memory of Blossom Barrow, this SATB version was first performed at the memorial service for Annabel Freyberg, mother of Blossom Barrow, at St Mary Abbots, the parish church of Kensington, on 26th February 2014. The performance was given by the choir of St Mary Abbotsconducted by the Director of Music, Professor Mark Uglow.
