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John Tavener

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British composer John Tavener (born 28 January 1944 in Wembley, London, died 12 November 2013 in Dorset) was a direct descendant of the sixteenth century composer John Taverner. He attended Highgate School (where a fellow pupil was John Rutter) and later studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where his tutors included Sir Lennox Berkeley. He first came to prominence in 1968 with his dramatic cantata The Whale, based on the Old Testament story of Jonah.

Top songs

  1. The Lamb
  2. Song for Athene
  3. Mother And Child
  4. Funeral Canticle
  5. Funeral Ikos
  6. The Protecting Veil
  7. Mother Of God, Here I Stand
  8. The Lamb (for string orchestra)
  9. Ex Maria Virgine: Rocking
  10. O, Do Not Move
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  1. The Lord's Prayer
  2. Song of the angel
  3. Hymn to the Mother of God
  4. Eternity's Sunrise
  5. As one who has slept
  6. The Protecting Veil: The Dormition of the Mother of God
  7. Fragments of a Prayer
  8. Ikon of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
  9. Tavener: Funeral Canticle
  10. Tavener: The Lamb
  11. Zodiacs
  12. Prayer Of The Heart
  13. Annunciation
  14. today the virgin
  15. Mother of God
  16. To a Child Dancing in the Wind
  17. Missa Wellensis: IV. Agnus Dei
  18. The Tyger
  19. Love bade me welcome
  20. The Protecting Veil: The Protecting Veil
  21. A Hymn to the Mother of God
  22. Eternity’s Sunrise
  23. Threnos
  24. The Bridegroom
  25. Birthday Sleep
  26. Tavener: The Lamb: "Little lamb, who made thee"
  27. The Tiger
  28. God is with Us: Christmas Proclamation
  29. Exhortation and Kohima: Exhortation
  30. Petra: a ritual dream
  31. The Incarnation
  32. Away in a manger
  33. The Protecting Veil - Arranged for Saxophone (1st Movement)
  34. Sappho: Lyrical Fragments
  35. John Tavener: The Lamb
  36. Iepo Oneipo
  37. Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother of God
  38. Tavener: The Protecting Veil: I. The Protecting Veil
  39. Magnificat
  40. They are All Gone into the World of Light
  41. A Christmas Round
  42. The Protecting Veil/The Protecting Veil
  43. Song for Athene - Voice
  44. Innocence
  45. God is with us
  46. Tavener: Song For Athene
  47. Dhyana
  48. Missa Wellensis: I. Kyrie
  49. The Protecting Veil: Section 1
  50. The Lamb (Live): The Lamb
  51. The Last Sleep of the Virgin
  52. God Is With Us (A Christmas Proclamation)
  53. Mother Of God, Here I Stand (For String Orchestra)
  54. The Lords Prayer
  55. The Hidden Treasure
  56. The Protecting Veil: Section I
  57. Three Holy Sonnets: Spit In My Face
  58. The Veil of the Temple: Mother of God, Here I Stand (with Sarod Improvisation)
  59. In alium: Section A
  60. Lament for Jerusalem: Stanza I (By the waters of Babylon) - Excerpt
  61. Chant
  62. Lament for Jerusalem: Stanza V (O Jerusalem, Jerusalem) - Excerpt
  63. The Protecting Veil: The Incarnation
  64. The Lord’s Prayer
  65. The Lamb (BAILE Remix)
  66. Angels
  67. The Protecting Veil: Annunciation
  68. The Bridegroom (voices & strings) (1999)
  69. II.
  70. Tavener: Funeral Ikos
  71. The Protecting Veil: I. The Protecting Veil
  72. Tavener: Lamentations and Praises: XIX. Resurrection in Hadës
  73. Missa Wellensis: II. Gloria
  74. Rocking
  75. The Protecting Veil: Lament of the Mother of God at the Cross
  76. The Protecting Veil: Christ is risen!
  77. Three Holy Sonnets: Death, Be Not Proud
  78. The Veil of the Temple, Cycle II: V. Holy Mary
  79. The Veil of the Temple, Cycle I: I. Mystical Love Song of the Sufis
  80. Thunder Entered Her
  81. Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Nunc Dimittis
  82. Diodia 1
  83. V.
  84. The Dormition of the Mother of God
  85. X.
  86. 2 Hymns to the Mother of God: Hymn to the Mother of God
  87. Schoun Hymnen
  88. Tavener : The Lamb
  89. In Memory of Two Cats
  90. Tavener: Away in a Manger

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