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
Last update: 2019-07-18 17:59:13