Gavin Bryars

String Quartet No. 2 was written in 1990 commissioned by the Huddersfield Festival and the Balanescu Quartet.'This second quartet is a more relaxed, easy-going piece than the first

Apart from the ten 5-minute string quartets that I wrote in 1992 as theoriginal version of A Man in a Room, Gambling, there are 8 years between my second and third quartets. Another element which find...

La pièce est dédiée à John Harle et au Bournemouth Sinfonietta, qui l'a commandée avec des fonds de South West Arts. Elle exploite la capacité du saxophone à jouer de longs passages expressifs et mélo...

Le morceau est assez difficile techniquement, et curieusement, ce sont les instruments les plus graves qui ont les voix les plus difficiles. Ainsi, le sax baryton a quelques passages altissimo et term...

Two Lines a été écrit à la demande de Kathryn Bennetts et Peter Bowman pour célébrer leurs 20 ans de collaboration. Il s'agit ici d'une réponse aux Inventions à deux voix de Bach et, comme celles de B...

This is a special arrangement for double bass choir of the choral piece Silva Caledonia, written for the Estonian National Male Choir, which sets a text by the Scottish poet Edwin Morgan. It was first...

Apart from the ten 5-minute string quartets that I wrote in 1992 as theoriginal version of A Man in a Room, Gambling, there are 8 years between my second and third quartets. Another element which find...

Originating as the musical equivalent of a work of conceptual art, this piece has various performing versions, often arising from particular occasions and environments. All the materials used are deri...

Cette belle œuvre expérimentale pour un consort de violes est fondée sur la Fantaisie homonyme de Purcell. À l'occasion, et avec grand effet, Bryars améliore le riche son romantique des violes à arche...

S'ajoutant aux nombreuses laudes chantées de Bryars, il existe un nombre croissant d'oeuvres instrumentales qui s'y rapportent. 'Tre Laude Dolçe' pour violoncelle seul est la deuxième publication de c...

In 2001, Gavin Bryars began writing a number of pieces based on a large collection of 13th century semi-religious songs, known as 'Lauda', which would have been sung outside churches and in other publ...

Written for Duncan McTier, this concerto has the unusual addition of an optional male voice choir. Many Russian elements influenced Bryars when he was writing the piece, not least the text for the bas...

This short work for solo bass voice was written for Clive Birch from the Australian vocal ensemble The Song Company. At the premiere it was used to bridge two larger works but it would be equally well...

This short work for solo bass voice was written for Clive Birch from the Australian vocal ensemble The Song Company. At the premiere it was used to bridge two larger works but it would be equally well...

This piece is one of a series of works that take texts or imagery from the work of Jules Verne. Here the text is taken from 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, a section in which Professor Aronnax describes...

Gavin Bryars has returned once again to the poetry of George Bruce and the 'Five Songs from Northern Seas' are dedicated to his memory in his centenary year. Bryars describes the five evocative poems:...

Bryars' settings of Benedicamus Domino and Credo were written to complete a Ladymass that had been constructed from the Worcester Fragments. They were composed with the intention of seamless integrati...

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