Song for Athene

John Tavener wrote it in April 1993 on a BBC commission, as a tribute to Athene Hariades, a young half-Greek actress and family friend. The text is by Mother Thekla, an Orthodox nun at the Monastery of the Assumption near Whitby, and combines excerpts from the Orthodox funeral service with lines from Hamlet. It is for unaccompanied SATB choir, about seven minutes, and Chester Music published it in 1997. Westminster Abbey Choir under Martin Neary sang it at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales on September 6, 1997.

Wikipedia lists recordings by the BBC Singers (1994), Westminster Abbey Choir (1995), Winchester Cathedral Choir (1999), St John's College, Cambridge (Naxos, 2000), the Temple Church (2003), The Sixteen (2006) and Nicola Benedetti's violin arrangement (2007), but not VOCES8's, which is on Enchanted Isle. We do not know whether our upload is the studio track or a live version, and setlist.fm's 23 VOCES8 setlists did not show its play count.