John Tavener
Influential British classical composer of the late 20th century, known for his extensive output of religion-themed works. He was knighted in 2000 for services to music.
Born 28th January 1944 Wembley Park, London, England - died 12th November 2013 Child Okeford, Dorset, England.
Not to be confused with the 16th century John Taverner.
Choral Works
The Choir Of Westminster Abbey, Vaughan Williams*, MacMillan*, Tavener*
2023
Hyperion
CD, Album
Heaven And Earth
John Tavener, Cappella Romana, 45th Parallel Universe
2022
Cappella Records
2xSACD, Hybrid, Multichannel
No Longer Mourn For Me
Tavener*, Steven Isserlis, Matthew Rose (3), Abi Sampa, Philharmonia Orchestra, Omer Meir Wellber
2020
Hyperion
CD, Album
The Protecting Veil
Tavener*, Matthew Barley
2019
Signum Classics
CD, Album
Angels and Other Choral Works
John Tavener, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Andrew Lumsden, George Castle
2019
Hyperion
CD
99 Words
Sir John Tavener*, Roxanna Panufnik, Voce Chamber Choir, Suzi Digby, Matthew Barley, Simon Russell Beale, James Sherlock (2)
2017
Signum Classics
CD, Album
Remembrance Requiem / Song For Athene / They Are At Rest
Duruflé*, Tavener*, Elgar*, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge*, Graham Ross (2)
2016
Harmonia Mundi
CD, Album
Missa Wellensis & Choral Works
John Tavener / Wells Cathedral Choir, Matthew Owens*
2016
Signum Records, Signum Classics
CD
The Song of the Stars
Bob Chilcott*, Paul Mealor, Gustav Holst, James MacMillan (2), Tarik O'Regan, Cecilia McDowall, John Tavener, James Whitbourn
2015
Naxos
CD, Album
Great Britain
Britten*, Harvey*, MacMillan*, Tavener*, Davies* - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart | Marcus Creed
2015
SWR Music
CD, Album
Tavener Conducts Tavener
John Tavener, Cappella Nova
2015
Linn Records
CD, Album
Ypakoë
John Tavener, Scottish Ensemble, The Wallace Collection, Canty, Elena Riu
2014
Linn Records
CD, Comp
The Veil Of The Temple
John Tavener, The Choir Of The Temple Church, The Holst Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Patricia Rozario, Stephen Layton
2014
Signum Classics
2xCD, Album, RE
The Essential John Tavener On Naxos
John Tavener
2014
Naxos
5xCD, Comp + Box
Around Britten
Matthew Barley - Britten*, Bryars*, Tavener*
2013
Signum Classics
CD, Album
The Protecting Veil / Dies Natalis
Tavener* / Finzi*
2013
BBC Music
CD, Album
Into The Night - Contemporary Choral Music
Eric Whitacre, Stephen Paulus, David N. Childs, Arvo Pärt, John Tavener, Abbie Betinis, Morten Lauridsen, Frank Ticheli
2013
Naxos
CD
All Shall Be Well
Roxanna Panufnik, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sergey Rachmaninov*, John Tavener, Henryk Górecki, Jaakko Mäntyjarvi*, Pierre Villette, Knut Nystedt - Richard May (3) · Exultate Singers · David Ogden (3)
2012
Naxos
CD, 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
EMI Classics
CD, Album
We Shall See Him As He Is · Eis Thanaton · Theophany
Sir John Tavener* - Richard Hickox
2012
Chandos
2xCD, Comp, RM
Song For Athene. The Lamb. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis. The Lament Of The Mother Of God
John Tavener, The King's College Choir Of Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill
2012
EMI Classics, EMI Classics
CD, Comp
Choral Ikons
Tavener*, The Choir (3), James Whitbourn
2011
Opus Arte
CD, Album
The Whale / Celtic Requiem
John Tavener
2010
Apple Records
CD, Comp
Towards Silence
Sir John Tavener* - Cavaleri Quartet, Medici Quartet*, Finzi Quartet, Fifth Quadrant
2010
Signum Classics
SACD, Album
Iepo Oneipo / Heilagur Draumur
John Tavener - Kammerkór Suðurlands, Hilmar Örn Agnarsson
2010
Smekkleysa
CD, Album
Funeral Music
Koen Wellens, John Tavener, Henry Purcell, Gabriel Fauré
2010
RTR (10)
CDr
Artist Profile Series
Ralph van Raat, Adams* / Tavener* / Lindberg* / Rzewski*
2009
Naxos
5xCD, Album + Box, Comp
The Protecting Veil • The Last Sleep Of The Virgin • Choral Music
John Tavener, Steven Isserlis, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, David Hill, David Dunnett
2009
EMI Classics
2xCD, Comp
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
EMI Classics, EMI Classics
CD, Album, Enh, Ope
Thunder Entered Her / The Last Sleep Of The Virgin / The Hidden Treasure
Tavener* - Chilingirian Quartet*, Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill
2009
Virgin Classics
2xCD, Comp
Piano Music
Tavener* / Ralph van Raat
2008
Naxos
CD, Album
The Repentant Thief
John Tavener, London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, Patricia Rozario
2008
RCA
CD
Song For Athene
Tavener*
2008
Classic FM, Decca
CD, Comp
Ex Maria Virgine
John Tavener - Choir Of Clare College, Cambridge* · Timothy Brown (3)
2008
Black Castles (British Music For Brass)
Brass Partout / Hermann Bäumer - Elgar*, Butterworth*, Bourgeois*, Tavener*, Pickard*, Turnage*
2007
BIS
CD, Album
Vaughan Williams / Tavener
Vaughan Williams* / Tavener* – Nicola Benedetti, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton
2007
Styx / The Myrrh Bearer
Giya Kancheli , John Tavener
2007
Lament For Jerusalem
John Tavener, Choir Of London (2) And Orchestra*, Jeremy Summerly
2006
Naxos
CD, Album
Lament For Jerusalem
John Tavener, Choir Of London And Orchestra*
2006
Naxos
CD, Album
Fragments Of A Prayer (From The Motion Picture Children Of Men)
John Tavener
2006
Motets (1921) / Gregorian Motets / Song For Athene / Mass In G Minor For Double Choir / O Sacrum Convivium
Copland* / Duruflé* / Tavener* / Vaughan Williams* / Messiaen* & Tallis* - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus, Norman Mackenzie
2006
Schuon Lieder
John Tavener - Patricia Rozario, The Schubert Ensemble* With Gillian McDonagh
2005
Black Box
CD
The Protecting Veil Song for Athene The Lamb
John Tavener
2005
HMV Classics
CD-ROM, Album
A Portrait (His Works・His Life・His Words)
John Tavener
2004
Naxos
2xCD, Comp, Ltd
The Veil Of The Temple
John Tavener
2004
RCA Red Seal, Sony BMG Music Entertainment
2xSACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
Lament For Jerusalem
John Tavener - Rozario* · Josey* · Sydney Philharmonic Symphonic Choir · The Australian Youth Orchestra* · Woods*
2004
ABC Classics
CD, Album
Gaudete
Karl Jenkins, Fauré*, Tavener*, Pachelbel*, Reich* - Tenebrae (10), Nigel Short
2004
Signum Classics
CD, Album
The Gates Of Eden
Maria Farandouri, Αλκίνοος Ιωαννίδης ,Music By Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hadjidakis, John Tavener, Νίκος Κυπουργός
2004
Holy Monastery Of Koutloumous Mount Athos
CD, Album, Dlx, Ltd, Dig
Sermons And Devotions
Górecki* / Tormis* / Stravinsky* / Poole* / Tavener* / Bennett* - The King's Singers
2004
Schuon Hymnen - The Second Coming - Exhortation And Kohima - Shûnya And Other Choral Works
John Tavener / Polyphony, Stephen Layton
2004
Ikon Of Eros
Tavener* - Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Chorale, Paul Goodwin (2), Jorja Fleezanis, Patricia Rozario, Tim Krol
2003
Reference Recordings
HDCD, Album
The Ultimate John Tavener
John Tavener
2003
Sony Classical
2xCD, Comp
The John Tavener Collection
Tavener*
2003
The Hidden Face
John Tavener / Fretwork, Michael Chance
2002
Harmonia Mundi
CD, Album
Darkness Into Light
Anonymous 4, Chilingirian Quartet*, John Tavener
2002
Harmonia Mundi
CD, Album, Dig
Taverner - The Protecting Veil / The Last Sleep Of The Virgin
Taverner*, London Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Chilingirian String Quartet
2002
HMV Classics, HMV Classics
CD, Comp
Choral Ikons
Tavener*
2002
Opus Arte
DVD-V, NTSC, LPC
Diódia • The World • Akhmatova Songs • Many years
John Tavener / Patricia Rozario, The Vanbrugh Quartet
2001
Hyperion
CD, Album
Total Eclipse • Agraphon
John Tavener - Patricia Rozario • John Harle, The Academy Of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin (2)
2001
Lamentations And Praises
Chanticleer - John Tavener
2001
Gormenghast
Richard Rodney Bennett, John Tavener
2000
Sony Classical, Sony Classical
CD, Album
Fall and Resurrection
Tavener* - Richard Hickox
2000
Chandos
CD, Album
Song For Athene
John Tavener, Arvo Pärt, Veljo Tormis, Gustav Holst, Maurice Duruflé, Benjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc
2000
HMV Classics
CD
Panikhida / Religious Works / Apolytikion For St. Nicholas
John Tavener
2000
Ikon Records (3)
Cass
Christmas Proclamation (The Choral Music Of John Taverner)
John Tavener, Choir Of St. John's College, Cambridge*, Christopher Robinson
2000
Mandelion - Works For Organ - Kevin Bowyer
John Tavener - Kevin Bowyer
1999
Nimbus Records
2xCD, Comp
Eternity's Sunrise
John Tavener - The Academy Of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin (2)
1999
Harmonia Mundi
CD, Promo, Smplr
Out Of The Night
Arvo Pärt / John Tavener - Taverner Choir, Andrew Parrott
1999
Eternity's Sunrise
John Tavener - The Academy Of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin (2)
1999
The Protecting Veil / In Alium
John Tavener, Maria Kliegel, Eileen Hulse, Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa
1999
Byzantia
John Tavener
1999
The Protecting Veil / The Last Sleep Of The Virgin
Tavener* - I Fiamminghi, Rudolf Werthen
1998
Telarc
CD
Tears Of The Angels
John Tavener / BT Scottish Ensemble*
1998
Linn Records
HDCD, Album
Trisagion & Other Contemporary British Chamber Music
Onyx Brass, John Tavener
1998
Intim Musik
CD, Album
Nyman: Strong On Oaks, Tavener: The Protecting Veil
Michael Nyman, John Tavener, Josephine Knight, English Sinfonia, Bramwell Tovey
1998
Carlton Classics
HDCD, Album
Funeral Ikos
Tavener*
1998
HMV Classics
CD, Album
Awake My Glory (20th Century Choral Music from Jesus College, Cambridge)
Kenneth Leighton, Herbert Howells, Sir Michael Tippett, John Tavener, Benjamin Britten
1998
Lammas Records
CD, Album
Modern Classics
Igor Stravinsky, Samuel Barber, Carl Nielsen, Witold Lutoslawski, Philip Glass, John Tavener, Tan Dun
1998
The Protecting Veil / Wake Up... And Die
Yo-Yo Ma, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman - John Tavener
1998
The Last Sleep Of The Virgin
John Tavener / Chilingirian Quartet* / London Symphony Orchestra
1997
Virgin Classics
CD, Comp, Dig
Svyati
John Tavener, Steven Isserlis
1997
RCA Victor Red Seal, BMG Classics
Cass, Single, Promo, Smplr
Akhmatova Requiem
Tavener*
1997
Svyati
John Tavener, Steven Isserlis
1997
Eis Thanaton / Theophany
Tavener*, Richard Hickox, Patricia Rozario, Stephen Richardson (2), City Of London Sinfonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
1996
Chandos, Chandos
CD, Album
Jubilate Deo!
Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach, Francis Poulenc, John Tavener, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir
1996
Twentieth-Century Choral Music
Tavener* / Pärt* / Górecki* / Ridout* / Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse
1996
Contemporary Classics
Górecki*, Tavener*, Pärt*
1995
EMI Classics
CD, Comp
Innocence
John Tavener
1995
The Protecting Veil / Thrinos / Eternal Memory
Tavener* - Raphael Wallfisch, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (2)
1995
Thunder Entered Her
John Tavener - David Hill, Winchester Cathedral Choir
1994
Virgin Classics Digital
CD, Promo, Smplr
The Last Sleep Of The Virgin
John Tavener - Chilingirian Quartet*
1994
Virgin Classics Digital
CD, Promo, Smplr
Eternal Memory / From Jewish Life
Tavener*, Bloch*, Steven Isserlis, Moscow Virtuosi, Vladimir Spivakov
1994
RCA Victor Red Seal
CD, Single
To A Child Dancing In The Wind
John Tavener, Patricia Rozario
1994
Collins Classics
CD, Album
The Last Sleep Of The Virgin / The Hidden Treasure
John Tavener - Chilingirian Quartet*
1994
Ikos
Górecki* · Tavener* · Pärt* - Choir Of King's College, Cambridge*, Stephen Cleobury
1994
Ikon Of Light
John Tavener / The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
1994
Thunder Entered Her
John Tavener - David Hill, Winchester Cathedral Choir
1994
Akathist Of Thanksgiving
John Tavener
1994
Ikons
John Tavener, BBC Singers, Simon Joly
1994
Celtic Requiem (Requiem For Jenny Jones)
John Tavener
1993
Apple Records
Cass, RE, RM
The Lamb
John Tavener
Song for Athene
John Tavener
Mother And Child
John Tavener
Funeral Canticle
John Tavener
Funeral Ikos
John Tavener
The Protecting Veil
John Tavener
The Lord's Prayer
John Tavener
Mother Of God, Here I Stand
John Tavener
Ex Maria Virgine: Rocking
John Tavener
The Lamb (for string orchestra)
John Tavener
O, Do Not Move
John Tavener
Hymn to the Mother of God
John Tavener
The Protecting Veil: The Dormition of the Mother of God
John Tavener
Song of the angel
John Tavener
Eternity's Sunrise
John Tavener
As one who has slept
John Tavener
Ikon of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
John Tavener
Fragments of a Prayer
John Tavener
Tavener: Funeral Canticle
John Tavener
Zodiacs
John Tavener