A work for 13-part unaccompanied SATB choir with words by William Blake and music by John Tavener. The Tyger was written for Philip Sherrard for his 65th birthday. It was composed in Katounia Greece and at onedramatic point refers back to 'The Lamb' both in text and in music.

Svyati - 'O Holy One' for choir and solo cello. Text in church Slavonic. Quoting Tavener: 'I began to write Svyati in early 1995: while sketching it I learned that John Williams father of Jane my dear friend andpublisher was dying. I could not refrain from dedicating it to Jane and to the memory of her father. The text is in Church Slavonic and it is used at almost every Russian Orthodox service perhaps most poignantly afterthe congregation have kissed the body in an open coffin at an Orthodox funeral. The choir sings as the coffin is closed and borne out of the church followed by the mourners with lighted candles. The cello represents the Priest orIkon of Christ and should play at a distance from the choir perhaps at the opposite end of the building. As is Greek drama choir and priest are in dialogue with each other. Since the cello represents the Ikon of Christ it mustbe played without any sentiment of a Western character but should derive from the chanting of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Monument for Beethoven by John Tavener was commissioned by the Southbank Centre.Monument for Beethoven was premiered on 18th March 2014 at the Royal Festival Hall London.

Composed by John Tavener through commission by the Royal British Legion for the Festival of Remembrance. First performed on the 8th November 2003 at the Albert Hall London. The piece is written for double choir one as acentral focus and another as a semi-chorus 'Echo-Choir'. The two groups are then unified for the closing Kohima movements. In accordance with the occasion the music is slow noble and highly dignified.

A Christmas Round was composed for the Feast of St Nektarios of Aegina and text in both English and Greek is included with transliteration. The piece is unsigned for key or time. It has a distinctly Eastern Orthodoxflavour.John Tavener was that rare creature a composer of serious music and serious religious music who has also achieved commercial success. He burst into the popular consciousness with the performance of his Song for Atheneat the funeral of Princess Diana but had been a highly respected and frequently-performed composer since the premiere of his dramatic cantata The Whale in 1968.

John Tavener's O Where Tell Me Where? was commissioned by The Bach Choir. It was first performed on 10th April 2014 at the Oriental Arts Centre Shanghai China by The Bach Choir conducted by DavidHill.This piece for SSSSAAAATTBB Choir and Tubular Bells is a meditation on three traditional Scottish songs: The Blue Bells Of Scotland My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose and The Skye Boat Song.

Tubular Bells Part-John Tavener's O Where Tell Me Where? was commissioned by The Bach Choir. It was first performed on 10th April 2014 at the Oriental Arts Centre Shanghai China by The Bach Choir conducted by DavidHill.This piece for SSSSAAAATTBB Choir and Tubular Bells is a meditation on three traditional Scottish songs: The Blue Bells Of Scotland My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose and The Skye Boat Song.

Commissioned for Tenebrae and their director Nigel Short. John Tavener writes:'Mother and Child celebrates the miracle of childbirth. It also celebrates Mary in her universal aspect as mother of all Prophets andco-redemptress with Christ. But behind all this is the Theophanic Light single and infinite and the same in every Religious tradition. The music is at once tender ecstatic and luminous and follows the text. I have interpolatedinto Brian Keeble’s poem texts celebrating the Eternal feminine in Greek and then at the climax an outburst in Sanskrit of ATMA. This is supreme Reality the true Self shining and infinite the one single God expressedin music by pulsating awesome strokes on the Hindu Temple Gong with organ and choir in massive blocks. This seems to say that the real ‘Mother and Child’ are both beyond birth and beyond death and beyond time.'

For Flute (doubling Piccolo) Clarinet in B flat* Very large Tam-Tam (sounding from a high gallery) and Choir (SSATTBB).* Notated in C in the score. 'According to Hindu Cosmology welive at the end of a cycle the Kali Yuga the Dark Age. There are two important sayings of Christ that should accompany his disciples always during these challenging times. The first is ?The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against my Church? (Matthew 16 v. 18); and the second ?I am with you always unto the end of the world? (Matthew 28 v. 20). These sayings form the basis of this work which falls into two main sections each with the same structure and with linked material. Each section begins with Kali Yuga which I havetried to represent in a chaotic unstructured way in contrast to the cosmic Cries of Humanity to Christ (Kyrie eleison - Lord have mercy) and Christ?s responses from Saint Matthew?s Gospel.The work ends with a serene?Coda? of the sacred monosyllable ?OM? representing the peace and beatitude of God?s presence. The intermingling of Christianity and Hinduism is an important simile for our times; in the same way early Christianity did nothesitate to incorporate Jewish and Greek thought.' - John Tavener

John Tavener's Preces And Responses for Double Choir were commissioned by Cathedral Commissions of Wells Cathedral and were first performed on Sunday 18th May 2014 during New Music Wells 74-14 by WellsCathedral Choir conducted by Matthew Owens.

Miniature vocal score for two works for unaccompanied SATB choir Ikon Of The Nativity and O Do Not Move. Ikon Of The Nativity was first performed in December 1991 by Cappella Nova conducted by Alan Tavener.O Do Not Move was first performed in June 1992 by the Holst Singers conducted by Nicholas Cleobury.This is a special item which is made to order.

Work for unaccompanied SATB from Tavener's The Veil Of The Temple.The Veil of the Temple was commissioned by the Temple Music Trust. The world premiere took place on 27th June 2003 at the Temple Church London performed by the Choir of the Temple Church and the Holst Singers with Patricia Rozario (soprano) conducted by Stephen Layton as part of The City of London Festival 2003. The anthem Awed by the beauty was arranged in 2005.Byzantine text translated by Mother Thekla. ?Oh? should be sung as in the ?o? of ?log?. Breathe when necessary but not simultaneously. ?? and ???? represent microtones the characteristic ?breaks in the voice? of Eastern chant.

Work for SATB chorus with Organ from Tavener's Veil Of The Temple.The Veil of the Temple was commissioned by the Temple Music Trust. The world premiere took place on 27th June 2003 at the Temple Church London performed by the Choir of the Temple Church and the Holst Singers with Patricia Rozario (soprano) conducted by Stephen Layton as part of The City of London Festival 2003. The anthem O Mary Theotokos was arranged in2005.

This work for soprano solo and SATB chorus was commissioned by the Norwich Festival of Contemporary Church Music.Tavener:'In the Orthodox Church the Lament of the Mother of God is normally sung on Holy and Great Friday. Inits full length it lasts about half and hour and it is intoned by the Priest or Bishop while the people venerate the Epitaphios (or Shroud of the Dead Christ) which is in the centre of the church and decorated withflowers.The Lament must be sung with an ikon-like stillness and great purity. It grows in intensity as it climbs in tessitura but without anything sudden or remotely melodramatic.For the Orthodox Church there is never thesense of absolute desolation felt by the Western Church on Good Friday. Hence the cry of the Mother of God 'Dost thou change my grief to gladness by thy Resurrection?' followed by the full forces: 'Rise O God and judge theearth.'Mother of God also features in the film Philomena starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and directed by Stephen Frears.

Commissioned for Cappella Nova's 30th Anniversary by Jyotipakshini. First performed on 30th May 2012 at St. Andrew's-in-the-square Glasgow by Cappella Nova directed by Alan Tavener.Cease to do evil.Learn to dogood.Purify the heart.This is the teaching of the Buddha.