SKU: HL.14016612
8.5x11.75x0.428 inches.
An opera by John Tavener and Gerard McLarnon, based on the Dostoyevsky short story. Commissioned by the Bath Festival for the Nash Ensemble and premiered at the Theatre Royal, Bath, in June 1977. Duration c. 45mins. Large (A3) score.
SKU: HL.14032750
ISBN 9780711992771.
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 being the opening series of intervals which appear to be inexhaustible in their multifaceted symbolism, representing the music of the spheres. If the angel's song is indeed one of knowledge, they could not choose a better theme of harmony. And then there is the apparent evil of the endless series of spiralling sixths and sevenths, falling without apparent hope of redemption through an eternal geometric series, down into a hellish realm. Agraphon must be performed with great intensity, literally at the breaking point of intensity and petrification. For the voice the style alternates between European and classical Indian singing; for example, the passage beginning on page 12 is entirely semi-improvised. The singer must listen to many examples of classical Indian music, or else be trained by a master. The music ends fiercely at the incomprehensible clash and union between the Divine and the human. Duration 22 minutes. Instrumental parts are available on hire only.
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.14016649
8.0x12.0x0.093 inches.
Work for SATB Chorus, Two Flutes, Trumpet, Organ and Strings.
SKU: HL.14016707
UPC: 884088816353. 8.5x11.0x0.379 inches.
Alternative Title: Ikon of the Beloved Scored for Soprano and Two Tenor Soli, SATB Chorus, 2 Trumpets, 2 Timpani, Organ and Strings (Large Cello section required).
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.14032844
7.0x10.0x0.262 inches.
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 composer. Duration c. 50mins. Instrumentation:; SOLO SOPRANO; SOLO BASS; 3 HORNS IN F; 3 TRUMPETS IN C; 3 BASS TROMBONES; TIMPANI (2 SETS); PERCUSSION (5 PLAYERS); CELESTE; STRINGS.
SKU: HL.14016655
UPC: 884088810184. 8.5x11.0x0.388 inches.
Vocal score for this ikon in music and dance. The solo parts are for soprano, contralto, bass-baritone and boys' chorus (minimum of 9). Duration c. 90mins. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.
SKU: HL.14016641
ISBN 9781495000843. UPC: 884088804893. 10.5x14.0x0.096 inches.
Work for Solo Soprano and large ensemble, commissioned for the 1968 Promenade Season. Text: Charles Peguy and children's prayers.
SKU: HL.14016699
8.75x11.75x0.75 inches.
Commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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.14032332
UPC: 884088811785. 8.5x11.0x0.054 inches.
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.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.14042686
Full 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.14047797
UPC: 888680642815. 9.5x14 inches.
John Tavener 's Kaleidoscopes is a tribute to Mozart for Solo Oboe, Percussion and four String Quartets, lasting approximately 30 minutes. The work was commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia, and first performed by them with soloist Nicholas Daniel on 6th November 2006 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. This is the Solo Oboe part. In the composer's note, Tavener explains his high regard for Mozart, and how in Kaleidoscopes he attempts to take Mozart's music and meditate upon it in four main cycles. He states that all the music has its source in Mozart, whether it be rhythmic, harmonic or contrapuntal. .
SKU: HL.14043388
ISBN 9781783057641. UPC: 888680053390. 8.75x11.75x0.401 inches.
John Tavener's The Apocolypse for SATB choir with piano accompaniment. This work was commissioned by the BBC for performance during the 100th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. It was first performed on August 14, 1994, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, conducted by Richard Hickox, with Thomas Randle (St. John), Patricia Rozario (The Woman), Stephen Richardson (Voice of God), Ruby Philogene (Whore of Babylon), Christopher Robson (Angel), David Nickless (Solo Treble), The New London Children's Choir, the City of London Sinfonia Chorus and the City of London Sinfonia.
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.14047799
8.25x12.0x0.067 inches.
John Tavener 's Pluies is a work for Solo Mezzo-Soprano, SATB Chorus and String Quartet. The piece was first performed on 31st January 2015 and lasts around 5 minutes. This is the full score. The words for Pluies come from a poem of the same name by Saint-John Perse. .
