John Tavener
PRAYER FOR JERUSALEM for children's voices and strings
CHESTER MUSIC 6.13
Prayer for Jerusalem was written for the Israel Camerata. First performance on 22nd October 2006, at the Henry Crown Hall, Jerusalem, by the Israel Camerata and Chorus Musicus Köln, conducted by Christoph Spering.
Duration: c. 810minutes minutes Duration c.
Conductor’s score, vocal score and string parts on hire Vocal score also on sale: Order No. CH71698-01
COMPOSER’S NOTE We live in the time of the last days of the Kali-Yuga, the Dark Age of Hinduism. The great religious traditions of the world are in a state of old age, and therefore of senility and human corruption. My Prayer for Jerusalem is an Invocation to the One God of Islam, Judaism and Christianity – Allah, Adonai, Kyrie. The Hadith of the Prophet Mohammed proclaims that God is a Beautiful Being, and he loves Beauty. Very little of that beauty can be seen in the behaviour of some among mankind, who are made in his image and yet at this moment in time seem to have become a distortion and a gross perversion of that Eternal Beauty. In Prayer for Jerusalem, I have tried to rediscover something of that Eternal Beauty through the language of music. Children’s voices invoke the name of God as a mantra throughout, while the strings play a six-part canon based on the very name of Jerusalem, which is the spiritual home of Jews, Muslims and Christians, but also, and more importantly, a symbol of the Celestial City. The Prayer is a Triptych, rising to an impassioned cry in the central section, and then, in the final section, coming to a mood of serenity and Beatitude. Indeed, the very substance of the Divine Being. J.T.
for the suffering Muslims, Jews and Christians of Jerusalem
PRAYER FOR JERUSALEM John Tavener c.66 With profound compunction q = c.50
Children’s Voices
like a mantra mp
Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
sim. sempre
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
Violin I
Violin II
Viola
Cello
Double Bass
4
Voices
A
cresc. poco a poco
A - do - nai. Al - lah. con molto intensità
Vln. I
7
Voices
pp
Voices
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
pp
molto
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
pp
molto
Ky - ri - e.
molto
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
p
molto
Ky - ri - e.
molto
p
molto
(cresc.)
Ky - ri - e.
p
Vln. II
Ky - ri - e.
pp
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
(cresc.)
pp
10
molto
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Vln. II
Ky - ri - e.
Vln. I
p
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A - do - nai. Al - lah.
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molto
molto
Ky - ri - e.
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A - do - nai. Al - lah.
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molto
molto
Ky - ri - e.
molto
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molto
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2 13
(cresc.)
Voices
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Vla.
19
mp
mp
molto
mp
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
mp
mp
molto
molto
molto
Ky - ri - e.
mp
molto
mp
molto
B
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
poco f
poco f
poco f
Ky - ri - e.
poco f
poco f
poco f
poco f
Vlc.
(cresc.)
molto
molto
molto
mp
molto
molto
molto
poco f
Vla.
Ky - ri - e.
mp
molto
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
poco f
Vln. II
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
mp
molto
(cresc.)
Voices
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
mp
mp
Vla.
mp
mp
Vln. II
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
molto
molto
Voices
mp
p
16
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
molto
Ky - ri - e.
p
Vln. II
poco f
poco f
3 22
(cresc.)
Voices
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Ky - ri - e.
25
Vla.
f cresc.
poco f
(cresc.)
Vln. II
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
f cresc.
Voices
poco f
poco f
poco f
Vlc.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
poco f
poco f
f cresc.
poco f
Vla.
poco f
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
poco f
Vln. II
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
f cresc.
Vlc.
f cresc. 28
con molto intensità
(cresc.)
Voices
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Vln. II
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
ff
ff
Vla.
ff
ff
Vlc.
D.B.
ff
ff
4 31
ff
Voices
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I Vln. II
Vla.
Vlc.
D.B.
Voices
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Ky - ri - e.
con molto intensità
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
C 34
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al -
pp
Vln. II
pp
Vla.
pp
Vlc.
D.B.
pp
pp
pp
With yearning, very intense ff con molto intensità sempre
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Voices
- lah.
Vln. I
div.
Ky - ri -
A -
Ky - ri -
A -
Ky - ri -
e.
sffp
div.
Vln. II
Vla.
sffp Vlc.
div.
sffp
D.B.
sffp
nai. Al - lah.
e.
sffp
sffp
do -
sffp
sffp
sffp
sffp
sffp unis.
do - nai. Al - lah.
sffp
sffp div.
sffp
sffp
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Voices
- e.
Vln. I
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do -
sffp unis.
Vln. II
sffp
Vln. I
Vln. I
sffp
sffp unis.
sffp
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
sffp
e.
sffp div.
sffp
sffp div.
sffp div. in 3
sffp unis.
sffp
sffp div. in 2
sffp unis.
sffp div.
sffp
sffp
sffp
D
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri -
sffp div.
sffp div.
sffp
sffp
sffp div.
sffp div.
sffp div.
sffp unis.
sffp
sffp
sffp unis.
sffp unis.
sffp
sffp div.
D.B.
Ky - ri - e.
sffp unis.
div.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
unis.
Vlc.
unis.
Ky - ri -
sffp
Vla.
sffp
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
sffp Vln. II
sffp
Ky - ri - e.
sffp
Voices
sffp
sffp
sffp div.
49
sffp
sffp div.
sffp unis.
D.B.
sffp
sffp
Vlc.
sffp unis.
Vla.
sffp
- nai. Al - lah.
Vln. II
sffp div.
sffp
sffp
D.B.
Voices
div.
sffp
45
sffp
sffp unis.
sffp
sffp
Vlc.
sffp div.
sffp unis.
Vla.
sffp unis.
sffp
6 53
Voices
- e.
Vln. I
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do -
sffp div.
Vln. II
sffp
div. in 3
Vlc.
sffp div.
D.B.
sffp
57
Voices
- nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Vln. I
Vln. II
Ky - ri -
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
sffp
sffp
sffp
sffp
sffp
sffp
E
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do -
sffp
sffp div.
sffp unis.
sffp div.
sffp unis.
nai. Al - lah.
p sub.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
sffp
sffp unis.
sffp div.
sffp
D.B.
sffp
sffp div.
e.
sffp unis.
sffp
Vlc.
sffp Vla.
sffp
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
sffp
Ky - ri - e.
sffp
sffp
sffp
D.B.
sffp
sffp div.
Voices
sffp
sffp div.
61
div.
sffp unis.
Vlc.
sffp Vla.
sffp unis.
Vln. II
sffp
sffp
unis.
sffp
sffp unis.
sffp
sffp div. in 2
sffp unis.
sffp div.
sffp
sffp
sffp
Vla.
sffp unis.
sffp
sffp
7 65
Serene, contemplative
Voices
Ky - ri -
e.
A - do
-
Vln. I
con sord.
Vln. II
pp espress.
con sord.
Vla.
con sord.
pp espress.
Ky - ri -
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
pp espress.
e.
pp espress.
Ky - ri -
nai. Al - lah.
con sord.
e.
A - do -
Vlc. con sord.
pp espress.
con sord.
D.B.
pp espress.
68
Voices
- nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Vln. II
Vla.
Vlc.
D.B.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do -
Ky - ri - e.
A - do -
71
Voices
- nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Vla.
Vlc.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Vln. II
Ky - ri - e.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
8 74
Voices
- nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Vln. II
Vla.
Ky - ri - e.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do -
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Vlc.
77
Voices
- nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Vln. II
Vla.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do -
Vlc.
80
Voices
- nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Vln. II
Vla.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do -
Vlc.
9 83
Voices
- nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Vla.
- nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Vla.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
Vln. II
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
A - do -
F
86
Voices
Vln. II
Ky - ri - e.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do -
89
Voices
- nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Vln. II
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do -
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
92
Voices
- nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do -
disappearing into the infinite . . .
pp
95
Voices
perdendosi - nai. Al - lah.
Vln. I
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
pp poss.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do - nai. Al - lah.
Ky - ri - e.
A - do -
nai. Al - lah.
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