Composer: John Kenneth Tavener (1944 - 2013)

[Also see this composer's texts set to music]

Listing of art song and choral settings in the database

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Note: A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available.
A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

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] ENG FRE
• 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)
• Boris Pasternak = Борис Пастернак (in Akhmatova Songs) (Text: Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) ENG FRE
• 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]
• 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]
• 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
• 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 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 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 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: Anonymous 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: 2019-07-18 17:59:13