Taverner

Album by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies & BBC Symphony Orchestra & Oliver Knussen & Martyn Hill & David Wilson‐Johnson

Taverner is an opera by Peter Maxwell Davies, premiered in 1972. The score combines modernist orchestral and choral writing with references to Tudor-era music and is one of Davies's early large-scale stage works engaging with historical musical material.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Taverner: Act I, Scene 1. Courtroom
    19:18
  2. 2.
    Taverner: Act I. Transition
    1:30
  3. 3.
    Taverner: Act I, Scene 2. The Chapel
    6:01
  4. 4.
    Taverner: Act I. Transition
    3:16
  5. 5.
    Taverner: Act I, Scene 3. The Throne Room
    15:10
  6. 6.
    Taverner: Act I, Scene 4. The Throne Room
    6:58
  7. 7.
    Taverner: Act I, Scene 4. The Throne Room
    6:57
  8. 8.
    Taverner: Act I, Scene 4. The Throne Room
    5:48
  9. 9.
    Taverner: Act I, Scene 4. The Throne Room
    5:11

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Taverner: Act II, Scene 1. Courtroom
    6:36
  2. 3.
    Taverner: Act II. Transition
    3:03
  3. 4.
    Taverner: Act II, Scene 2. The Throne Room
    9:55
  4. 5.
    Taverner: Act II. Transition
    1:01
  5. 6.
    Taverner: Act II, Scene 3. The Chapel
    8:00
  6. 7.
    Taverner: Act II. Transition
    1:19
  7. 8.
    Taverner: Act II, Scene 3. The Market-Place in Boston, Lincolnshire
    16:50

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