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Protecting Veil:
Orchestra: Score
Orchestre à Cordes [Partition]
Chester
One of Tavener's most famous works The Protecting Veil for solo cello and strin...(+)
One of Tavener's most famous works The Protecting Veil for solo cello and string orchestra was commissioned by the BBC for the 1989 series of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. The first performance was given in September 1989at the Royal Albert Hall London by Steven Isserlis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen.Study Score. Duration c. 42mins.
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| John Tavener: The Lamb -
String Orchestra Version:
String Orchestra: Score
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Orchestre à Cordes [Partition] - Intermédiaire
Chester
The Lamb one of composer John Tavener’s most beloved frequently-performed...(+)
The Lamb one of composer John Tavener’s most beloved frequently-performed and often-recorded works was composed in a single afternoon in 1982 as a gift for the composer’s three-year-old nephew.While the original was an unaccompanied Choral piece that set William Blake’s poem The Lamb this adaptation is an extremely effective and moving work for String Orchestra. The arrangement may be performed aloneor in accompaniment to a Chorus. John Tavener was that rare creature a composer of serious music and serious religious music who also achieved commercial success. He burst into the popular consciousness with theperformance of his Song for Athene at 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. The Lamb hasappeared on nearly forty different recordings.
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| John Tavener: Mother Of
God Here I Stand: String
Orchestra: Score
Orchestre à Cordes [Partition] - Intermédiaire/avancé
Chester
Taken from Veil of the Temple and arranged for string orchestra.
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| John Tavener: Mother Of
God Here I Stand: String
Orchestra: Score and
Parts
Orchestre à Cordes [Partition] - Intermédiaire
Chester
John Tavener's Mother Of God Here I Stand taken from Veil of the Temple and arr...(+)
John Tavener's Mother Of God Here I Stand taken from Veil of the Temple and arranged for String Orchestra. ommissioned by the Temple Music Trustfor Premiere in The Temple Church London. This versioncontains conductor's score and full set of parts (8x Violin 1 8x Violin 2 5x Viola 5x Cello 5x Double Bass).
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| John Tavener: Tears of
the Angels: String
Ensemble: Score
Orchestre à Cordes [Partition]
Chester
This work for string ensemble was commissioned by the BT Scottish Ensemble and ...(+)
This work for string ensemble was commissioned by the BT Scottish Ensemble and was first performed in June 1996 at the Hellenic Centre London by the BT Scottish Ensemble with Clio Gould (violin).Quoting Tavener: Tears ofthe Angels should be played at the extreme breaking point of 'tenderness'. In other words totally beyond our compassion and beyond our comprehension. Wrapped in a depth of inner silence of which we have no idea a stateof being not an emotion a tender light piercing the agonising darkness of the world. Also a humility of which we have no idea because it is not rooted in a hypocritcal or contrived deprecation of self but in the blindingvision of God Himself.Since we are 'human' and not angels the music can only be 'imagined' by us. All th strings are muted throughout except for the part marked solo violin. The solo violin is 'the chief among theAngels' and the whole piece must sound 'serene' and 'seemless'.Duration c. 17mins.
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Bridegroom: Chamber
Ensemble: Instrumental
Work
Orchestre à Cordes [Partition]
Chester
Composed in 1999 for four female voices and string quartet. Vocal Score availab...(+)
Composed in 1999 for four female voices and string quartet. Vocal Score available: CH61780
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| John Tavener: Popule Meus
- a Meditation: String
Ensemble: Score
Orchestre à Cordes [Partition]
Chester
For solo Cello Timpani and Strings.Popule Meus was commissioned through the Ma...(+)
For solo Cello Timpani and Strings.Popule Meus was commissioned through the Magnum Opus project: Kathryn Gould founding patron and commissioner and Meet the Composer project manager.It was first performed on 6thFebruary 2010 by Yuri Hooker (cello) and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Micklethwate. Composer's Notes 'Popule Meus is a meditation on the Judaic and Christian text ?O my People whathave I done to you?? but itis also a Universalist contemplation of the wholesale rejection of God by modern man. However much manrejects God he cannot escape Him and indeed he is condemned to the supernatural by his deiformnature. InHindu terms he is the Absolute Ayam Atma Brahma (The Self is the Absolute).In this work the solo cello is the All-Compassionate One while the timpani represent man in his vain andpointless rejection. Although the solocello and strings and the timpani share the same material (four ideas aregradually revealed and they revolve four times during the piece) the timpani music is violent and becomesincreasingly frenzied and contracted while thecello and strings remain still and serene.So even in winning the Darkness loses and even in losing the Light wins. Passion Resurrection andRedemption; or in Hindu terms Atma (The Absolute) alone is real Maya (The Relative) ismerely illusion.'
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| John Tavener: Lacrimae
(Parts): String Ensemble:
Parts
Orchestre à Cordes [Partition] - Intermédiaire
Chester
Written for viol consort.This work was commissioned by Concordia. First performa...(+)
Written for viol consort.This work was commissioned by Concordia. First performance by Concordia on 17 July 2004 at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music.
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| John Tavener: Lacrimae:
String Ensemble: Score
Orchestre à Cordes [Partition] - Intermédiaire
Chester
Written for viol consort.This work was commissioned by Concordia. First performa...(+)
Written for viol consort.This work was commissioned by Concordia. First performance by Concordia on 17 July 2004 at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music.
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| John Tavener: Wake Up And
Die: String Ensemble:
Score and Parts
Orchestre à Cordes [Partition]
Chester
Work for Solo Cello and Orchestral Cello Section. Premiered by Yo Yo Ma.Quoting ...(+)
Work for Solo Cello and Orchestral Cello Section. Premiered by Yo Yo Ma.Quoting Tavener: It was while pondering these traditional dicta that I began to write the opening solo melody for the cello. It is in fact a palindromebecause waking and dying are like two sides of a piece of paper. If you wake up spiritually then you will die to all that is not of God. In the middle section which is also a palindrome the orchestral cellos join in theparadoxical meditation providing a platform as it were while the cello line takes on a much more melismatic and decorative character.In fact the whole work is a series of intellectual contradictions realised by thesimplest of musical metaphysics. Dying life life dying waking up in order to die the solo cello always represents the individual mind dying and the individual mind waking up.Then of a sudden just before the end thesolo chant begins again only to be cut off by a distant sentimental memory the memory of 'the blues' reminding us of ordinary human emotion and of our fallen state. The very end suggests a waking up into a kind of peace (notsoul slumber since after death the soul becomes more intensely alive); but we know nothing of that so the music fades beyond our ears.
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