John Tavener Songtexte
Mother of God, Here I Stand (for string orchestra)
A Christmas Round
Fragments of a Prayer
Funeral Canticle
Lament of the Mother of God
Geboren am 28. Januar 1944, Gestorben am 12. November 2013
The Veil of the Temple (The Choir of the Temple Church & The Holst Singers feat. soprano Patricia Rozario, conductor: Stephen Layton)
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle I: Mystical Love Song of the Sufis
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle I: Primordial Call
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle II: Primordial Call
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle II: God's Creation
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle II: Outside the Gates of Paradise
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle II: Our Father
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle II: Holy Mary
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle II: Alleluia Theos Erastos
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle II: Gospel of St John
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle II: Thrice-Holy Hymn - Resurrection
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle II: Beatitudes of St. Isaac the Syrian
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle III: Primordial Call
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle III: Psalm of Creation
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle III: O Blessed Paradise, Pray for Me
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle IV: Primordial Call
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle IV: Mystery of the Nothingness of God
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle V: Primordial Call
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle V: You Mantle Yourself in Light
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle V: Jesus Prayer
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle V: The Lord's Prayer
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VI: Primordial Call
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VI: What God Is We Do Not Know
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VI: God of Strength
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VI: Kyrie Eleison - Chant
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VI: Te Re Rem - Ecstatic Chant
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VI: Jesus Having Risen From the Tomb
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VII: Apocalyptic Primordial Call
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VII: Absolved in the Mirror
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VII: Jesus Prayer
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VII: Hesychast Meditation
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VII: Mary Theotokos
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VII: Hail, Veil of the Temple
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VII: Mother of God
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VII: Alleluia
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VII: Gospel of St. John
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VIII: Maranatha
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VIII: Awake Thou That Sleepest
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VIII: Into Beauty
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VIII: Rending of the Veil of the Temple: Maya Atma
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VIII: Knights Templar in the Temple Church
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VIII: Light of Christ
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VIII: Cosmic Rising
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VIII: New Jerusalem - Upanishad Hymn
- The Veil of the Temple: Cycle VIII: Shántih
The Whale
The Whale / Celtic Requiem (Compilation)
- The Whale: Documentary
- The Whale: Melodrama and Pantomime
- The Whale: Invocation
- The Whale: The Storm
- The Whale: The Swallowing
- The Whale: The Prayer
- The Whale: In the Belly
- The Whale: The Vomiting
- Celtic Requiem: a) Requiem Aeternam
- Celtic Requiem: b) Dies Irae
- Celtic Requiem: c) Requiescat in Pace
- Nomine Jesu
- Coplas
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- Hymns of Paradise
- Svyati (Svyatuiee - O Holy One) (Kiev Chamber Choir, feat. conductor: Mykola Gobdych)
- Eternal Memory: I. With great peace and serenity (Moscow Virtuosi feat. conductor: Vladimir Spivakov)
- Eternal Memory: II. Slightly grotesque; dance-like; rough and an illusion of motion (Moscow Virtuosi feat. conductor: Vladimir Spivakov)
- Eternal Memory: III. With great peace and serenity (Moscow Virtuosi feat. conductor: Vladimir Spivakov)
- Akhmatova Songs: I. Dante
- Akhmatova Songs: II. Pushkin and Lermontov
- Akhmatova Songs: III. Boris Pasternak
- Akhmatova Songs: IV. Couplet
- Akhmatova Songs: V. The Muse
- Akhmatova Songs: VI. Death
- The Hidden Treasure
- Chant for Solo Cello
- Act One: Prologue. With Unearthly Stillness
- The Voice. the Ways to Salvation
- Zossima. Here I Sit and Beat My Brain
- Swine Men and Women. Grunt and Groan - We Bring Our Wares
- Zossima. Let Me Consider Once More
- Swine Men and Women. Grunt and Groan. Come and Buy
- Zossima. Never Raised a Thieving Arm
- Young Men. We See the Cross Before Us
- Mary. Take Me!
- The Voice. Zossima! the Ways to Salvation
- Act Two: Prologue. With Unearthly Stillness
- The Voice: The Ways to Salvation
- Monks. We Are the Desert Monks
- Zossima. and I, the Stranger
- The Exaltation of the Cross
- The Prayer of Mary: Mary O Virgin Lady
- Monks. I Will Praise the Lord
- God Is With Us - Christmas Proclamation
- Magnificat
- Two Hymns to the Mother of God: Hymn to the Mother of God
- Two Hymns to the Mother of God: Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother of God
- Love Bade Me Welcome
- As one who has slept
- The Lord's Prayer
- The Unfolding of the Great Mystery
- Ikon I
- Ikon II
- Ikon III - Refrain
- Ikon IV
- Ikon V - Refrain
- Ikon VI
- Ikon VII - Refrain
- Ikon VIII
- Ikon IX
- The Tomb
- Ikon X
- Ikon Xi
- The Hidden Treasure - exerpt
- The last sleep of the Virgin - exerpt
- "War, He Sung, Is Toil and Trouble"
- Part 1: Silence, Darkness: In the Beginning, Before Time
- Part 1: Representation of Chaos
- Part 1: Paradise
- Part 1: The Serpent
- Part 1: Catastrophe: The Implications of the Fall
- Part 1: Adam's Lament
- Part 1: The Lament of Mankind
- Part 2: Prediction
- Part 3: The Incarnation of the Logos
- Part 3: Cosmic Dance of the Resurrection: All Is Transfigured
- Seven Magnificat Antiphons: O Weisheit
- Seven Magnificat Antiphons: O Adonai
- Seven Magnificat Antiphons: O Spross Aus Isais Wurzel
- Seven Magnificat Antiphons: O Schlüssel Davids
- Seven Magnificat Antiphons: O Morgenstern
- Seven Magnificat Antiphons: O König Aller Völker
- Seven Magnificat Antiphons: O Immanuel
- St. John's Day Songs for Midsummer's Eve: Call to the Midsummerbonfire I
- St. John's Day Songs for Midsummer's Eve: Call to the Midsummerbonfire II
- St. John's Day Songs for Midsummer's Eve: Cannot Be Caught by the Shot of a Gun
- St. John's Day Songs for Midsummer's Eve: Why We Look Forward to St. John's Arrival
- St. John's Day Songs for Midsummer's Eve: St. John's Steed
- St. John's Day Songs for Midsummer's Eve: Fire Incantation
- St. John's Day Songs for Midsummer's Eve: St. John's Song
- Solfeggio
- Tota Pulchra Es
- Tu Es Petrus
- Hymn to St. Cecilia: In a Garden Shady This Holy Lady
- Hymn to St. Cecilia: I Cannot Grow
- Hymn to St. Cecilia: O Ear Whose Creatures Cannot Wish
- Salve Regina
- Exultate Deo
- The Protecting Veil: I. The Protecting Veil
- The Protecting Veil: II. Annunciation
- The Protecting Veil: III. The Incarnation
- The Protecting Veil: IV. Lament of the Mother of God at the Cross
- The Protecting Veil: V. Christ is Risen!
- The Protecting Veil: VI. The Dormition of the Mother of God
- The Protecting Veil: VII. The Protecting Veil
- Wake Up... And Die
- The Nativity of the Mother of God
- The Incarnation
- Lament of the Mother of God at the Cross
- The Resurrection
- The Dormition of the Mother of God
- The Last Sleep of the Virgin
- Depart in Peace
- My Gaze Is Ever Upon You
- Tears of the Angels
- Two Hymns to the
- Mother of God
- Lament of the Mother of God
- Petra: A Ritual Dream
- Sappho: Lyrical Fragments
- Funeral Canticle
- God Is With Us: Christmas Proclamation
- Two Hymns To The Mother Of God: I. Hymn to the Mother of God
- Two Hymns To The Mother Of God: II. Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother of God
- Respond: Archangeli Michaelis Interventione
- Leroy Kyrie
- Missa O Michael - Gloria
- Missa O Michael - Credo
- Missa O Michael - Sanctus
- Missa O Michael - Agnus Dei
- Dum Transisset Sabbatum
- Hymn for the Dorminition of the Mother of God
- Ikon of Light: I. Phos I
- Ikon of Light: II. Dhoxa
- Ikon of Light: III. Trisagion I: Agios o Theos
- Ikon of Light: IV. Mystic Prayer to the Holy Spirit
- Ikon of Light: V. Trisagion II: Agios o Theos
- Ikon of Light: VI. Phos II
- Ikon of Light: VII. Epiphania
- Carol: The Lamb
- The Whale (Part 1)
- The Whale (Part 2)
- Song: Westron Wynde
- Western Wind Mass: Gloria
- Western Wind Mass: Credo
- Western Wind Mass: Sanctus & Benedictus
- Western Wind Mass: Agnus Dei I, II, & III
- Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas: Gloria
- Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas: Credo
- Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas: Sanctus & Benedictus
- Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas: Agnus Dei I, II, & III
- Come and Do Your Will in Me
- The Bridgeroom
- Cycle VIII: Rending of the Veil of the Temple: Maya Atma
- The Protecting Veil - Annunciation
- Cycle V: The Lord's Prayer
- Cycle VIII: Cosmic Rising
- Cycle VII: Absolved in the Mirror
- Cycle VI: God of Strength
- Cycle VI: Te Re Rem - Ecstatic Chant
- Cycle II: God's Creation
- In Alium - Section A
- Threnos
- In Alium - Section B
- In Alium - Section C
- The Protecting Veil - Section 1
- Cycle II: Holy Mary
- Cycle I: Primordial Call
- In Alium - Section D
- Cycle V: Primordial Call
- The Protecting Veil - The Dormition of the Mother of God
- Cycle VI: Jesus Having Risen From the Tomb
- The Veil of the Temple: What God Is We Do Not Know
- Cycle VII: Hesychast Meditation
- Cycle VII: Hail, Veil of the Temple
- Cycle VII: Mother of God
- Cycle IV: Mystery of the Nothingness of God
- Cycle VI: Kyrie Eleison - Chant
- Cycle VII: Jesus Prayer
- Cycle III: O Blessed Paradise, Pray for Me
- Cycle V: You Mantle Yourself in Light
- Cycle VIII: New Jerusalem - Upanishad Hymn
- Cycle VII: Mary Theotokos
- A Christmas Round
- Cycle II: Alleluia Theos Erastos
- The Protecting Veil - Lament of the Mother of God at the Cross
- The Protecting Veil - The Incarnation
- Cycle VIII: Knights Templar in the Temple Church
- Cycle VII: Alleluia
- Cycle VIII: Shántih
- Cycle II: Our Father
- God Is With Us: A Christmas Proclamation
- Cycle III: Primordial Call
- The Protecting Veil - Christ is risen!
- Cycle VII: Gospel of St. John
- Cycle II: Primordial Call
- Cycle III: Psalm of Creation
- Cycle II: Gospel of St John
- Cycle I: Mystical Love Song of the Sufis
- The Protecting Veil - The Protecting Veil
- Cycle II: Thrice-Holy Hymn - Resurrection
- Cycle II: Beatitudes of St. Isaac the Syrian
- Today the Virgin
- Cycle VIII: Into Beauty
- Cycle VIII: Maranatha
- Cycle II: Outside the Gates of Paradise
- Cycle IV: Primordial Call
- Cycle VI: Primordial Call
- Cycle VII: Apocalyptic Primordial Call
- Cycle VIII: Light of Christ
- Cycle V: Jesus Prayer
- Cycle VIII: Awake Thou That Sleepest
- Cycle VI: What God Is We Do Not Know
- Rember O Thou Man
- Monk Zossima...
- John Tavener in conversation with Michael Stewart on Mary of Egypt
- Bless Duet. Zossima i beg you...
- Mary. In Egypt, I lived...
- Angels' Dance. Holy, holy...
- Zossima. But here, my lady
- Akathist of Thanksgiving: VIII. Slava Tebie Kontakion 8 / Ikos 8.
- Episode II. Mary walks on the water
- Mary. I pray you...
- Act Three: Prologue . With unearthly stillness
- Act Five: The Jordan desert another year later. Threnody for Mary
- Love's whirligig
- Episode V. Zossima goes
- Episode I. Zossima searches for Mary
- The Voice. The ways to salvation ...
- Act Four: (Inset) The Jordan river one year later. The Angels' song
- Chorus. Judge not!...
- Episode IV. Mary returns on the water
- priest Zossima...
- Zossima. Why run from me
- Episode III. Communion
- Kohima
- Exhortation
- As one who has slept (voices & strings)
- The Bridgeroom (voices & strings)
- Come and do Your will in me (voices & strings)
- Diódia, for string quartet: Solemn
- Ikon of Eros: Ikon of Eros: Movement 2: Eros
- Ikon of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne: Extract
- Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Grunt and groan" (Swine men and women) / "Come and buy" (Swine men and women)
- Mary of Egypt: Act III. "Why run from me" (Zossima)
- Mary of Egypt: Act III. "Holy, Holy" (Angels)
- John Tavener Reflects... A Recorded Interview: 'The only goal...'
- John Tavener Reflects... A Recorded Interview: 'I saw in the Russian Orthodox Church...'
- Mary of Egypt: Act IV. Episode V. Zossima goes
- Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Zossima! The ways to salvation" (The Voice)
- John Tavener Reflects... A Recorded Interview: 'I think The Protecting Veil...'
- Mary of Egypt: Act V. "The ways to salvation" (The Voice)
- Mary of Egypt: Act III. Duet "I beg you" (Zossima, Mary)
- Mary of Egypt: Act II. Aria "And I, the stranger" (Zossima)
- Mary of Egypt: Act I. "The ways to salvation" (The Voice)
- The Lamb (1982)
- John Tavener Reflects... A Recorded Interview: 'The fact that I've been given...'
- John Tavener Reflects... A Recorded Interview: 'The Icelandic pop singer Björk...'
- Mary of Egypt: Act V. "Judge not!" (Chorus)
- Mandelion, for organ: Extract
- In alium, for high soprano, strings, piano, grand organ, Hammond organ, bells, gongs & four-track tape: Section A
- Mary of Egypt: Act III. "I pray you" (Mary)
- Mary of Egypt: Act I. "We see the cross before us" (Young Men)
- Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Let me consider, yet once more" (Zossima)
- Mary of Egypt: Act IV. Episode III. Communion
- Mary of Egypt: Act III. "But here, my Lady" (Zossima)
- Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Take Me!" (Mary)
- John Tavener Reflects... A Recorded Interview: 'My earliest musical memories...'
- To a Child Dancing in the Wind, for soprano, flute, harp & viola: Movement I. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
- Mary of Egypt: Act V. "Priest-monk Zossima" (Zossima)
- Mary of Egypt: Act V. Threnody for Mary
- Mary of Egypt: Act III. "Monk-priest Zossima" (Mary)
- John Tavener Reflects... A Recorded Interview: 'When my publishers ring...'
- Mary of Egypt: Act III. "In Egypt, I lived" (Mary)
- Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Never raised a thieving arm" (Zossima)
- Mary of Egypt: Act IV. Episode IV. Mary returns on the water
- Diódia, for string quartet: [rehearsal letter I]
- Mary of Egypt: Act IV. Episode II. Mary walks on the water
- Mary of Egypt: Act II. "We are the desert monks" (Monks)
- Mary of Egypt: Act II. "The ways to salvation" (The Voice)
- Mary of Egypt: Act IV. The Angels' song
- Mary of Egypt: Act II. The Prayer of Mary "O Virgin Lady" (Mary)
- Chant, for guitar: Extract
- Mary of Egypt: Act II. The Exaltation of the Cross
- Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Grunt and groan" (Swine men and women) / "We bring our wres" (Swine men and women)
- Mary of Egypt: Act II. "I will praise the Lord" (Monks)
- Mary of Egypt: Act I. Prologue "With unearthly stillness"
- Mary of Egypt: Act IV. Episode I. Zossima searches for Mary
- Eis Thanaton
- Mary of Egypt: Act III. Prologue "With unearthly stillness"
- Funeral Ikos (1981)
- Mary of Egypt: Act II. Prologue "With Unearthly Stillness"
- Mary of Egypt: Act I. "Here I sit and beat my brain" (Zossima)
- Lalishri Cycle 3
- Dhyana
- Lalishri Cycle 4
- Lalishri - Introduction
- Lalishri Cycle 2
- Lalishri Cycle 1
- Butterfly Dreams: VI The Butterfly by Pavel Friedmann
- Schuon Hymnen
- Butterfly Dreams: I. Butterfly Dreams based on Chuang
- Butterfly Dreams: V. Haiku, anon
- Butterfly Dreams: VIII. Butterfly Dreams based on Chuang
- Exhortation and Kohima
- Butterfly Dreams: II. Haiku by Kokku
- Butterfly Dreams: IV. Haiku by Issa
- Butterfly Dreams: III. Haiku by Buson
- Shûnya
- Butterfly Dreams: VII. Butterfly Song from Acoman Indian
- The Second Coming
- The Bridal Chamber
- Songs of the Sky
- Trisagion, for brass quintet
- The Whale: In the Belly
- The Whale: The Vomiting
- The Whale: The Prayer
- The Whale: The Storm
- The Whale: Documentary
- The Whale: The Swallowing
- The Whale: Invocation
- The Whale: Melodrama and Pantomime
- We Shall See Him As He Is: Ikon VI
- The Protecting Veil: I
- Ikon of Light, "Mystical Prayer to the Holy Spirit"
- The Protecting Veil for Cello and String Orchestra
- Thrinos for Solo Cello
- Eternal Memory for Cello and String Orchestra
- Song of the Angel for soprano, violin and strings
- Butterfly Dreams: 3. Haiku by Buson
- Butterfly Dreams: 5. Haiku anon.
- Butterfly Dreams: 4. Haiku by Issa
- Butterfly Dreams: 1. Butterfly Dreams based on Chuang Tse
- Butterfly Dreams: 6. The Butterfly by Pavel Friedmann
- Butterfly Dreams: 2. Haiku by Kokku
- Butterfly Dreams: 7. Butterfly Song from Acoman Indian
- Butterfly Dreams: 8. Butterfly Dreams based on Chuang Tse
- Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
- Ypakoë: The Lord Awoke As One That Sleepeth
- Ypakoë: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent - Elena Riu L
- Ypakoë: Remember Us Also O Lord...Why You Seek Ye Among The Dead, As Though He Were Mortal Man...
- Ypakoë: Arise O God
- Ypakoë: Weep Not For Me O Mother
- Agraphon
- Total Eclipse
- The World is burning
- Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
- The Lord’s Prayer
- The Protecting Veil: Section I
- Ikon of Eros: IV. Metamorphothes. Alliluia. Eros
- John Tavener in interview with Brian Newhouse
- Ikon of Eros: III. Ekstasis. Ekstasis. Eros
- Ikon of Eros: I. Metamorphothes. Eros
- The Veil of the Temple: You mantle yourself in Light
- The Veil of the Temple: Mother of God, Here I Stand
- Fear and Rejoice o People