Product Description: (Choral). This volume presents some of John Tavener's most popular works from his outstandingly varied and extensive catalogue of works for choir. Also included are beautiful miniatures and radiant anthems which trace a line over the years from the exquisite simplicity of his setting of Blake's The Lamb to the monumental Veil of the Temple and beyond...read more

Product Description: The Veil of the Temple is a journey from darkness into light. Care and attention has been given to the key chosen for each anthem and to the voicings, so that these versions are attractive to the broadest possible range of amateur as well as professional singers.

Product Description: Book by Rushton, Julian

Product Description: (Music Sales America). Work for Solo Piano commissioned for the City of London Festival in 1999. Quoting John Tavener: Ypakoe, in Greek refers to the Yapoe of Easter "Why seek ye among the dead, as though He were mortal man?". Ypakoe for solo piano is a meditation on both the Passion and Resurrection of Christ...read more

Product Description: (Music Sales America). 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. Scored for 4 Sopranos, 3 Altos, 3 Tenors and 3 Basses (SSSSAAATTTBBB) a cappella...read more

Product Description: One of today's leading composers reflects on the relationship of music to the spiritual dilemmas of our timeIn the 1960s, John Tavener's music appeared on the Beatles' Apple label. "The Protecting Veil"--one of the bestselling classical recordings of all time--made him a household name in the eighties, and his "Song for Athene" was heard worldwide when it was played at Princess Diana's funeral in 1997...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: John Tavener is Britain's most popular contemporary composer, his status sealed by the use of his music at the funeral of Diana. In this first-ever biography, the author marshals private letters and diaries, the testimony of family and friends, and extensive interviews with Tavener himself, to explore the apparent paradoxes of his character...read more

Product Description: (Music Sales America). A collection of choral works by the celebrated British composer John Tavener. Contents: A Christmas Round * A Nativity * Apolytikion of the Incarnation * God Is with Us * Ikon of the Nativity * O, Do Not Move * The Lamb * Today the Virgin.

Product Description: This is a resource for personal meditation and devotion. It consists of a book with ten sections written by Mother Thekla, on themes of holiness, light, prayer, psalms, ikons, the mother of God, prophets, the mind, Holy week and gospel thoughts...read more