John Tavener

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 i...

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 i...

Written for solo cello and strings. This work was commissioned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. It was first performed on 24th November 199...

Work scored for Brass Quintet, premiered by Equale Brass.

For Clarinet Solo and Optional Dancer.

Choral, SATB, Recorder, Voice, Organ, Flute, Percussion, Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Oboe, Bass Voice, String Instruments, Harpsichord, Alto Flute This massive work for orchestra and four choirs w...

Ikon of Eros was commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra on the occasion of the Orchestra's Centennial. First performance on 13th November 2002 at the St Paul Cathedral, Minnesota, by Jorja Fleezanis...

This is the Study Score for Mary Of Egypt by John Tavener, for Solo Voices, SATB Chorus and Orchestra. Please note that this is the Chamber Version, with lyrics in English. A full performance of this...

Sollemnitas in conceptione immaculata beatae Mariae virginis. Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blesswed Virgin Mary.

A dramatic cantata with music by John Tavener and text drawn from The York Cycle Of Mystery plays and the Vulgate. All soloists alternate between being narrator and character. Study Score. Duration c....

A complete musical setting of the Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova's Requiem using the original Russian text, to which some prayers from the Russian Orthodox funeral service have been added by the compo...

Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1978, this work is scored for Dramatic Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra.

Premiered by the Composer at the Royal Academy of Music.

An opera in one act commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, premiered at the Royal Opera House in October 1979. Libretto by Gerard McLarnon.

John Tavener's Sollemnitas In Conceptione for Soloists, Double SATB Chorus and Orchestra. This work was commissioned by festival religio musica nova, the Zürcher Kammerorchester and Saint Thomas' Chu...

Klavier, Gesang & Gitarre (rechte Hand Melodie).

John Taverner: The tiny Parting Gift for Tam Farrow, is an essence, a fragrance, that came to me from her. The performance of the essence is my gift back to her. For SATB Choir. Premiered by The Talli...