One of Tavener’s hits, and deservedly so. The beginning of this cello concerto, where the string orchestra swells ecstatically into being under a high cello note, is one the great openings in music.

The cellist Natalie Clein, 26, will be the soloist at the official 60th-birthday concert for Sir John Tavener at Temple Church, Fleet Street. It will be an appropriately atmospheric venue for Tavener, ...

Composer John Tavener, whose works ranged from angry, dissonant cantatas to achingly beautiful choral works sung around the world during holidays, died Tuesday at his home in Child Okeford in southern ...

As Mahler discovered, it can be better for a composer not to go into details about the philosophical stimulus of a piece of music. All you really need to know about Sir John Tavener's Requiem, ...

I'll never forget the first time I heard the music of John Tavener, who has died at the age of 69. It was 1989: the world premiere of The Protecting Veil, his cello concerto, at the Proms. A sound ...

There were some old favourites among the 21 pieces, including the cello concerto The Protecting Veil, and the choral composition The Lamb. They were a reminder that John Tavener penned works that ...

British composer Sir John Tavener claims not to care about his audiences. He must be doing something to endear himself to them, though, because audiences have embraced his music. Tavener's "The Lamb" ...

Lasting 100 minutes and requiring an orchestra, dozens of singers, cello and vocal soloists, the piece assaults the senses, deliberately seeking to encompass the listener within the scope of its sound ...

Sir John Tavener, one of the few classical composers to have gained a large non-classical following, has died. His greatest exposure came when his anthem A Song for Athene was sung at the funeral of ...

There were the early achievements – his trailblazing 1968 cantata The Whale, for instance – and then what felt like an increasing law of diminishing musical returns as Tavener took up the mantle of ...