There's a lot to be said for this album as an actual pedagogical device -- buy one for the young cellist in your life. In a world where the musical tuition of young people is too often standardized and dull, this disc has a touch of the eccentric, of the personal, of the kind of music teacher you tell stories about years after the fact. It offers ...
For purists, Gavin Bryars has raised issues of appropriation in his contemporary adaptations of fourteenth century Cortonese laude, but it is sometimes difficult to know how much of the material on Oi Me Lasso he has quoted and how much he has elaborated. In their original form, these sacred songs were written for unaccompanied soprano voice; ...
Unless you were the kind of super-connoisseur of the avant-garde to collect records on labels like Incus or Brian Eno's Obscure Records in the 1970s, chances are you've never heard very much of Gavin Bryars' early musical efforts. One of them, however, has become better known through a lucky coincidence; a slightly revised version of his then ...
A Man in a Room, Gambling is a 1992 collaboration between Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz and composer Gavin Bryars. Created as a series of ten, five-minute programs for broadcast on the BBC, A Man in a Room, Gambling aired, in accordance with Muñoz' concept, "like the weather forecast." Each five-minute "episode" features the foreground element of Mu ...
Lockerbie Memorial Concert is the third release on composer Gavin Bryars' boutique label GB Records, and is taken from a concert given December 21, 1998, at Westminster Cathedral as an observance of the 10th anniversary of the explosion of Pam Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Likely an act of terrorism, this event claimed 270 lives, one of ...
The Latvian Radio Choir's CD of contemplative choral music is largely devoted to the work of Gavin Bryars, including two of his larger pieces, Glorious Hill and Cadman Requiem. It also includes several of Bryars' shorter works, thirteenth century chant, and music by Latvian composers Peteris Vasks and Eriks Esenvalds. The Esenvalds piece is ...
The male vocal quartet Orlando Consort and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir share a commitment to the same repertoires: the very old and the very new. The earliest and latest pieces on this collaborative CD are separated by about 650 years, Guillaume de Machaut's Messe de Notre Dame, probably written in the 1360s, and works by British ...
Choreographer Edouard Locke presented Gavin Bryars with the challenge of creating a new ballet incorporating selections from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, but arranged for a chamber ensemble and filtered through a contemporary artistic sensibility. Bryars responded with a series of movements that are recognizably derived from ...
Gavin Bryars has proved to be an exceptionally versatile composer over the course of his career, with cutting-edge avant-garde experiments, minimalism (exemplified in his best-known work, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet), and intensely lyrical choral and instrumental works. This CD gathers a selection of pieces from the last category, all ...
After a period of silence in the early '70s where Gavin Bryars, by his own account, "wrote little or no music," he embarked on a new series of pieces that marked a profound change from his early experimental, minimalist phase. That period included The Sinking of the Titanic (1970), a work whose score is a written text that contains not a note of ...
Gavin Bryars created his Chambre d'écoute (The Listening Room) based on the acoustics of various rooms in Château d'Oiron, a sixteenth century castle in the Loire Valley that's now used as a museum dedicated to contemporary art. Its eight movements are atmospheric soundscapes that use percussion, clarinets (particularly bass clarinet), electronics ...
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