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John Tavener
p, 1944-2013 GB, Wembley
Musician / Composer of Classical
A.k.a. John Kenneth Tavener
Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was a British composer, known for his extensive output of religious works, including The Protecting Veil, Song for Athene and The Lamb.Tavener first came to prominence with his cantata The Whale, premiered in 1968. Then aged 24, he was described by The Guardian as "the musical discovery of the year", while The Times said he was "among the very best creative talents of his generation." During his career he became one of the best known and popular composers of his generation, most particularly for The Protecting Veil, which as recorded by cellist Steven Isserlis became a bestselling album, and Song for Athene which was sung at the funeral of Princess Diana. The Lamb featured in the soundtrack for Paolo Sorrentino's film The Great
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The Lamb on The John Tavener Collection by John Tavener, Temple Choir, The Holst Singers, Natalie Clein, English Chamber Orchestra & Stephen Layton The Lamb on Carols from King's by Choir of King's College, Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury Tavener: Away in a Manger on A Year at King's by Choir of King's College, Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury The Lamb on Tavener: The Lamb by John Tavener & 12 Ensemble Tavener: The Lamb on A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols by Choir of King's College, Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury The Lamb (Live): The Lamb on Cambridge Singers Christmas Album by The Cambridge Singers & John Rutter Ex Maria Virgine: Rocking on Tavener, J.: Ex Maria Virgine by John Tavener, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & Timothy Brown O, Do Not Move on Carols from Queen's by Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford & Owen Rees The Lamb on Tavener . Pärt . Górecki by Vasari Singers & Jeremy Backhouse Mother Of God, Here I Stand on Lux by VOCES8Track list and 30sec audio provided by 
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missa Wellensis & Choral Works | John Tavener / Wells Cathedral Choir, Matthew Owens | 2016 | Album |
| The Song of the Stars | Robert Chilcott, Paul Mealor, Gustav Holst, James MacMillan, Tarik O'Regan, Cecilia McDowall, John Tavener, James Whitbourn | 2015 | Album |
| Great Britain | Benjamin Britten / Jonathan Harvey / James MacMillan / John Tavener / Peter Maxwell Davies - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart | 2015 | Album |
| Ypakoë | John Tavener, Scottish Ensemble, The Wallace Collection, Canty, Elena Riu | 2014 | Compil. |
| Into The Night - Contemporary Choral Music | Eric Whitacre, Stephen Paulus, Davis N. Childs, Arvo Pärt, John Tavener, Abbie Betinis, Morten Lauridsen, Frank Ticheli | 2013 | Album |
| Around Britten | Matthew Barley - Benjamin Britten, Gavin Bryars, John Tavener | 2013 | Album |
| The Protecting Veil / Dies Natalis | John Tavener, Gerald Finzi | 2013 | Album |
| John Tavener Requiem - British Composers | John Tavener, Ruth Palmer, Josephine Knight, Elin Manahan Thomas, Andrew Kennedy, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Vasily Petrenko | 2012 | Album |
| All Shall Be Well | Henryk Górecki, Knut Nystedt, Gustav Holst, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Roxanna Panufnik, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, John Tavener, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Pierre Villette, Exultate Singers, David Ogden, Richard May | 2012 | Album |
| The Whale / Celtic Requiem | John Tavener | 2010 | Album |
| Towards Silence | John Tavener, Cavaleri Quartet, The Medici Quartet, Finzi Quartet, Fifth Quadrant | 2010 | Album |
| John Tavener Requiem | John Tavener, Ruth Palmer, Josephine Knight, Elin Manahan Thomas, Andrew Kennedy, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Vasily Petrenko | 2009 | Album |
| The Protecting Veil • The Last Sleep Of The Virgin • Choral Music | John Tavener, Steven Isserlis, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, David Hill, David Dunnett | 2009 | Compil. |
| Artist Profile Series | Ralph van Raat, John Adams / John Tavener / Magnus Lindberg / Frederic Rzewski | 2009 | Album |
| Ex Maria Virgine | John Tavener - The Choir Of Clare College · Timothy Brown | 2008 | Album |
| Piano Music | John Tavener / Ralph van Raat | 2008 | Album |
| The Repentant Thief | John Tavener, Patricia Rozario, Andrew Marriner, Michael Tilson Thomas, The London Symphony Orchestra | 2008 | Album |
| Black Castles (British Music For Brass) | Brass Partout / Hermann Bäumer - Sir Edward Elgar, Arthur Butterworth, Derek Bourgeois, John Tavener, John Pickard, Mark-Anthony Turnage | 2007 | Album |
| Motets (1921) / Gregorian Motets / Song For Athene / Mass In G Minor For Double Choir / O Sacrum Convivium | Aaron Copland / Maurice Duruflé / John Tavener / Ralph Vaughan Williams / Olivier Messiaen & Thomas Tallis - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus, Norman Mackenzie | 2006 | Album |
| Lament For Jerusalem | John Tavener - Choir Of London, Jeremy Summerly | 2006 | Album |
| Fragments Of A Prayer: From The Motion Picture Children Of Men | John Tavener | 2006 | Compil. |
| Schuon Lieder | John Tavener - Patricia Rozario, The Schubert Ensemble Of London With Gillian McDonagh | 2005 | Album |
| The Veil Of The Temple | John Tavener | 2004 | Album |
| A Portrait (His Works・His Life・His Words) | John Tavener | 2004 | Compil. |
| Lament For Jerusalem | Sydney Philharmonic Symphonic Choir, Australian Youth Orchestra, John Tavener | 2004 | Album |
| Schuon Hymnen, The Second Coming, Exhortation And Kohima, Shûnya And Other Choral Works | John Tavener / Polyphony, Stephen Layton | 2004 | Album |
| The John Tavener Collection | John Tavener | 2003 | Compil. |
| Ikon Of Light | John Tavener, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers | 2003 | Album |
| Taverner - The Protecting Veil / The Last Sleep Of The Virgin | John Tavener, The London Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Chilingirian String Quartet | 2002 | Album |
| The Hidden Face | John Tavener / Fretwork, Michael Chance | 2002 | Album |
| Darkness into Light | Anonymous 4, Chilingirian String Quartet, John Tavener | 2002 | Album |
| Diódia | John Tavener, Patricia Rozario, The Vanbrugh Quartet | 2001 | Album |
| Total Eclipse • Agraphon | John Tavener - Patricia Rozario • John Harle, The Academy Of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin | 2001 | Album |
| Lamentations And Praises | Chanticleer - John Tavener | 2001 | Album |
| Requiem For Father Malachy | John Tavener / Jenaer Philharmonie | 2001 | Album |
| Song For Athene • Svyati And Other Choral Works | John Tavener - St. John's College Choir, Christopher Robinson | 2000 | Album |
| Gormenghast | Richard Rodney Bennett, John Tavener | 2000 | Album |
| Fall and Resurrection | John Tavener, Richard Hickox | 2000 | Album |
| Byzantia | John Tavener | 1999 | Compil. |
| The Protecting Veil / In Alium | John Tavener, Maria Kliegel, Eileen Hulse, Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa | 1999 | Album |
| Mandelion - Works For Organ - Kevin Bowyer | John Tavener - Kevin Bowyer | 1999 | Compil. |
| Eternity's Sunrise | John Tavener - The Academy Of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin | 1999 | Album |
| Out Of The Night | Arvo Pärt / John Tavener - Taverner Choir, Andrew Parrott | 1999 | Album |
| Eternity's Sunrise | John Tavener - The Academy Of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin | 1999 | Album |
| The Protecting Veil / Wake Up... And Die | Yo-Yo Ma, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman - John Tavener | 1998 | Album |
| Trisagion & Other Contemporary British Chamber Music | Onyx Brass, John Tavener | 1998 | Album |
| Michael Nyman: Strong On Oaks Strong On The Causes Of Oaks, John Tavener: The Protecting Veil | John Tavener, Michael Nyman, English Sinfonia, Bramwell Tovey | 1998 | Album |
| Tears Of The Angels | John Tavener / The BT Scottish Ensemble | 1998 | Album |
| The Protecting Veil / The Last Sleep Of The Virgin | John Tavener - I Fiamminghi, Rudolf Werthen | 1998 | Album |
| The Last Sleep Of The Virgin | John Tavener / Chilingirian String Quartet / The London Symphony Orchestra | 1997 | Compil. |
| Svyati | John Tavener, Steven Isserlis | 1997 | Album |
| Akhmatova Requiem | John Tavener | 1997 | Compil. |
| Jubilate Deo! | Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach, Francis Poulenc, John Tavener, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir | 1996 | Album |
| Twentieth-Century Choral Music | John Tavener / Arvo Pärt / Henryk Górecki / Alan Ridout / Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse | 1996 | Album |
| Eis Thanaton / Theophany | John Tavener : Richard Hickox, Patricia Rozario, Stephen Richardson, City Of London Sinfonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | 1996 | Album |
| The Protecting Veil / Thrinos / Eternal Memory | John Tavener - Raphael Wallfisch, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown | 1995 | Album |
| Innocence | John Tavener | 1995 | Album |
| Ikos | Henryk Górecki · John Tavener · Arvo Pärt - The King's College Choir Of Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury | 1995 | Album |
| Contemporary Classics | Henryk Górecki, John Tavener, Arvo Pärt | 1995 | Compil. |
| Ikon Of Light • Two Hymns To The Mother Of God • Today The Virgin • The Tiger • The Lamb • Eonia | John Tavener, The Sixteen, The Duke Quartet, Harry Christophers | 1994 | Album |
| The Last Sleep Of The Virgin / The Hidden Treasure | John Tavener - Chilingirian String Quartet | 1994 | Album |
| Thunder Entered Her | John Tavener - David Hill, Winchester Cathedral Choir | 1994 | Album |
| Thunder Entered Her | John Tavener - David Hill, Winchester Cathedral Choir | 1994 | Album |
| Eternal Memory / From Jewish Life | John Tavener, Ernest Bloch, Steven Isserlis, Moscow Virtuosi, Vladimir Spivakov | 1994 | Single |
| Akathist Of Thanksgiving | John Tavener | 1994 | Album |
| The Last Sleep Of The Virgin | John Tavener - Chilingirian String Quartet | 1994 | Album |
| Ikons | John Tavener | 1994 | Album |
| Mary Of Egypt | John Tavener | 1993 | Album |
| Celtic Requiem (Requiem For Jenny Jones) | John Tavener | 1993 | Album |
| The Whale | John Tavener | 1993 | Album |
| We Shall See Him As He Is | John Tavener | 1992 | Album |
| The Protecting Veil | John Tavener - Steven Isserlis, The London Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky | 1992 | Album |
| The Repentant Thief | John Tavener - Andrew Marriner, The London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas | 1991 | Album |
| Ikon Of Light / Funeral Ikos / Carol: The Lamb | John Tavener, The Tallis Scholars, Chilingirian String Quartet | 1984 | Album |
| Music By British Composers | John Tavener / Paul Patterson | 1982 | Album |
| The Liturgy Of St John Chrysostom Opus 32 | John Tavener | 1978 | Album |
| Requiem For Father Malachy / Canciones Espanolas | John Tavener, The King's Singers, The Nash Ensemble | 1976 | Album |
| Celtic Requiem (Requiem For Jenny Jones) | John Tavener | 1971 | Album |
| The Whale | John Tavener | 1970 | Album |
| Reads "New Numbers" / Three Songs For Surrealists | Christopher Logue / John Tavener, John Lennon, Yoko Ono | 1970 | Album |
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