The Lamb

 

Transcript

I wrote The Lamb in 1982 while being driven by my mother from South Devon to London.   It came to me fully grown so to speak, so all I had to do was to write it down.   It was inspired by Blake and by my three-year-old nephew, Simon.

 


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The Lamb has become a classic in its own time, and is recorded on 37 different CDs.  It is also one of the works that can be studied at GCSE and A level.

 

Tavener conducted The Lamb on a recording with The Tallis Scholars, on Gimell Records.