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4 days ago · Featuring music by Gerald Finzi, John Ireland, Cecilia McDowell and John Tavener, the hour-long programme of choral music and spoken word will immerse listeners in the isolated hilltop hive of creativity from where the sisters wove their intricate stories of desire, devotion, depravity and despair.
Jul 14, 2024 · Apple released two albums, "The Whale" and "Celtic Requiem", by an avant-garde classical composer who almost shared a name with a sixteenth-century composer that was his direct ancestor. Who is this composer, who was knighted in 2000?
3 days ago · Composer: John Tavener. Arranger: Phillip Littlemore. Category: Hymn Tunes. Duration: c. 4'30". Song for Athene was commissioned by the BBC and was first performed on the 22nd January 1994 at St. Giles in the Barbican, London, by the BBC Singers conducted by Simon Joly.
4 days ago · The event – featuring choral music and the spoken word – takes place at St Michael and All Angels Church on Sunday, September 22, at 4.30pm. There will be music by Gerald Finzi, John Ireland, Cecilia McDowell and John Tavener. And the choir will be joined by Elizabeth Gaskell expert Sherry Ashworth, who will curate and present the programme.
2 days ago · The title for the first Apex Festival program is Wake Up and Die, pulled from a John Tavener poem. Weller calls the program “a rite on humanity’s relationship with embodiment, death and the afterlife, and what it means to be human”.
2 days ago · Sir John Tavener was one of Britain’s leading composers of the last 50 years. To commemorate his extraordinary life and works The Sixteen is re-releasing its acclaimed recording Ikon of Light in a special limited edition slip-cased version with a newly commissioned booklet essay.
5 days ago · Den Durchbruch als Komponist schaffte er mit der Kantate The Whale 1968, die anlässlich des Gründungskonzerts der London Sinfonietta uraufgeführt wurde. Mit seinen Werken mit überwiegend religiöser Thematik konnte sich Tavener als einer der begabtesten und charismatischsten Komponisten Englands etablieren. 1969 wurde Tavener Professor für ...
