Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Tavener

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John Kenneth Tavener (1944 - 2013)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.

• Akhmatova Songs
• no. 1. Данте (Text: Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) ENG FRE
• no. 2. Пушкин и Лермонтов (Text: Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) ENG FRE
• no. 3. Борис Пастернак (Text: Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) ENG FRE
• no. 4. Двустишие (Text: Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) ENG FRE
• no. 5. Муза (Text: Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) ENG FRE
• no. 6. Смерть [multi-text setting] FRE ENG
• Butterfly Dreams
• no. 1. Butterfly dreams (Text: Anonymous after Chuang Tse)
• no. 2. Over the Dianthus (Text: Anonymous after Kokku)
• no. 3. Butterfly in my hand (Text: Anonymous after Yosa Buson)
• no. 4. The flying butterfly (Text: Anonymous after Kobayashi Issa)
• no. 5. It has no voice
• no. 6. The butterfly (Text: Jeanne Němcová after Pavel Friedmann) *
• no. 7. Butterfly song (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
• no. 8. Butterfly dreams (Text: Anonymous after Chuang Tse)
• Song Cycle for Gina
• no. 1. When you are old (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE GER HUN ITA
• no. 2. The angels are stooping (Text: William Butler Yeats) ITA
• no. 3. The curlew (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE ITA
• To a child dancing in the wind
• no. 1. He wishes for the cloths of heaven (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE GER HUN
• no. 2. The old men admiring themselves in the water (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
• no. 3. To a child dancing in the wind (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• no. 4. Two years later (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• no. 5. The fiddler of Dooney (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• no. 6. A deep-sworn vow (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• no. 7. Sweet dancer (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• no. 8. The stolen child (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• no. 9. He wishes for the cloths of heaven (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE GER HUN
• no. 10. The Countess Cathleen in Paradise (Text: William Butler Yeats)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A deep-sworn vow (in To a child dancing in the wind) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• As one who has slept (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Boris Pasternak = Борис Пастернак (in Akhmatova Songs) (Text: Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) ENG FRE
• Butterfly dreams (in Butterfly Dreams) (Text: Anonymous after Chuang Tse)
• Butterfly dreams (in Butterfly Dreams) (Text: Anonymous after Chuang Tse)
• Butterfly in my hand (in Butterfly Dreams) (Text: Anonymous after Yosa Buson)
• Butterfly song (in Butterfly Dreams) (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
• Dante = Данте (in Akhmatova Songs) (Text: Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) ENG FRE
• Dvustishije = Двустишие (in Akhmatova Songs) (Text: Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) ENG FRE
• Eonia - the jasmine (Text: Angelos Sikelianos) [x]
• Exhortation and Kohima (Text: Laurence Binyon)
• He wishes for the cloths of heaven (in To a child dancing in the wind) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE GER HUN
• He wishes for the cloths of heaven (in To a child dancing in the wind) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE GER HUN
• Ikon of Light (Text: Symeon the New Theologian) [x]
• It has no voice (in Butterfly Dreams)
• Magnificat (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG ENG ENG FRE GER SPA
• Many years (Text: John Kenneth Tavener)
• Muza = Муза (in Akhmatova Songs) (Text: Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) ENG FRE
• Over the Dianthus (in Butterfly Dreams) (Text: Anonymous after Kokku)
• Pushkin i Lermontov = Пушкин и Лермонтов (in Akhmatova Songs) (Text: Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) ENG FRE
• Смерть [multi-text setting] (in Akhmatova Songs) ENG FRE
• Sweet dancer (in To a child dancing in the wind) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• The angels are stooping (in Song Cycle for Gina) (Text: William Butler Yeats) ITA
• The butterfly (in Butterfly Dreams) (Text: Jeanne Němcová after Pavel Friedmann) *
• The Countess Cathleen in Paradise (in To a child dancing in the wind) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• The curlew (in Song Cycle for Gina) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE ITA
• The fiddler of Dooney (in To a child dancing in the wind) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• The flying butterfly (in Butterfly Dreams) (Text: Anonymous after Kobayashi Issa)
• The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
• The old men admiring themselves in the water (in To a child dancing in the wind) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
• The Second Coming (Text: William Butler Yeats) GER
• The stolen child (in To a child dancing in the wind) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• The Tyger (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER RUS
• The world (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• To a child dancing in the wind (in To a child dancing in the wind) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• Today the Virgin (Text: Mother Thekla, née Marina Sharf)
• Two years later (in To a child dancing in the wind) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• Westron Wind (Text: 16th century) GER IRI
• When you are old (in Song Cycle for Gina) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE GER HUN ITA

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Last update: 2021-07-13 13:02:09