John Tavener

Commissioned by the BBC for the series 'Seeing Salvation'. For SATB Choir and Tibetan Temple Bowls.

Two hymns written for unaccompanied choir by Tavener. The first is for SAATBBSAATBB double choir, and is a setting of a text from the Liturgy of St. Basil. The second is for SSATBBB choir and comes fr...

Vocal score for this work for 16 voices (4 x SATB). Large (A3) score. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

This work, which gives a musical interpretation of the Last Discourse of Christ after the Last Supper, was commissioned by Lord and Lady Marks for the Byzantine Festival in London 1998. It was first p...

A work for speaker and unaccompanied SATB choir, using words from In The Month Of Athyr by the celebrated Greek poet C. P. Cavafy. Commissioned by the Tallis Scholars to celebrate their 25th Anniversa...

A Choral Suite in eight movements for SATB (multi divisi). The texts are taken from different sources, including Chuang Tse, an Acoman Indian and a poem written by a young Czech victim of Auschwitz.

John Tavener's Coplas, composed in 1970, for SATB Choir. Score and performance CD. ' Coplas is a short anthem for voices and tape. It belongs to a much larger work called 'Last Rites' which I have bee...

This work for mixed choir and hand bells, set in English, Greek and Slavonic by John Tavener, was commissioned by Francis Grier. Large (A3) score.

Vocal score for this work for SSSSAATBBBB choir. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

A work for countertenor, guitar and handbells in a Byzantine style. Score.

Six Russian Folksongs is a work by John Tavener, composed for Soprano Voice and Ensemble. The work was composed for the 15th birthday of the Nash Ensemble.

Tavener's 1994 work for voice and cello.

This work was commissioned by the BBC, and first performed on 4th October 1999 at Norwich Cathedral, by Fretwork and Michael Chance (countertenor). Nipson is scored for a consort of viols (2 treble, 2...

Work for Solo Soprano and large ensemble, commissioned for the 1968 Promenade Season. Text: Charles Peguy and children's prayers.

Set for Solo Soprano and String Quartet as premiered by Patricia Rozario and The Nash Ensemble.

John Tavener 'Agraphon' arranged for soprano, timpani and strings. Commissioned by the Athens Concert Hall, first performed on 29th October 1995. The music contains two symbolic ideas - the first bein...

The Saman Chant is one of the oldest musics of which there is any record. This piece Samaveda for flute, voice and tampura is a tribute to this ancient form of Indian sacred music. It is freely based...

This work is scored for Solo Soprano, Tampura and Strings.

This work is scored for Alto Flute and Bass Voice. Quoting Tavener: Lament for Constantinople is offered in unspeakable gratitude to the Holy Orthodox Church. For its apophatic theology, a stumbling b...

An intense work for string quartet and solo soprano with words by Kathleen Raine, to whom the work is dedicated. The piece was commissioned by the Wets Cork Chamber Music Festival, and was first perfo...

A piece written by Tavener for the 50th birthday of Prince Charles. This version for soprano and string quartet.