Gavin Bryars

Commissioned by Gavin Bryars' long-standing collaborators, ensemble Aventa, and with a libretto by author and poet Marilyn Bowering, Bryars' Marilyn Forever examines the inner life of Marilyn Monroe,...

'This piece for solo harpsichord (1995, duration 10 minutes) was commissioned by Maggie Cole. '... I have offered many options with ornamentation, suggesting some, writing out others completely, but a...

Cette belle oeuvre, écrite à l'origine pour l'Ensemble Hilliard, a été arrangée par le compositeur pour choeur mixte

Spielpartitur - mit Klavierauszug, nur zur Probe

Cette belle œuvre chorale empreinte de solennité, dédiée à une victime de l'attentat aérien de Lockerbie en 1988, est divisée en cinq parties qui n'utilisent que deux des textes traditionnels du Requi...

Les 'Laude' sont de courts hymnes populaires à la louange de la Vierge Marie, datant du XIVe siècle et que Gavin Bryars a conservés dans leur exquise simplicité de style. Après la publication très bie...

One of Gavin Bryars' early major choral works, On Photography uses texts by Pope Leo XIII combining a modern subject matter (photography) and archaic language (Latin) with music of timeless beauty. Th...

Written at the same time as the composer's Piano Concerto (The Solway Canal), Bryars' Ramble on Cortona is the first piece the composer has penned for solo piano in his esteemed career. Like his piano...

Incipit Vita Nova (A new life is beginning) was written for male alto and string trio and sets those short phrases that appear in Latin rather than Italian in Dante's La Vita Nuova (New Life). It was...

4 Männerstimmen (ATTBar), 2 Violas, Violoncello und Kontrabass (ad lib.).

This quartet arrangement of Allegrasco was originally planned for clarinettist Roger Heaton and violinst Alexander Balanescu - two members of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble - to perform outside the context...

Les 'Laude' sont de courts hymnes populaires à la louange de la Vierge Marie, datant du XIVe siècle et que Gavin Bryars a conservés dans leur exquise simplicité de style. Les 'Laude Cortonese' ont été...

Les 'Laude' sont de courts hymnes populaires à la louange de la Vierge Marie, datant du XIVe siècle et que Gavin Bryars a conservés dans leur exquise simplicité de style. Les 'Laude Cortonese' ont été...

I had written the Cadman Requiem in 1989 for the Hilliard Ensemble in memory of my friend and sound engineer Bill Cadman, who was killed in the Lockerbie air crash. His death affected me very deeply a...

I had written the Cadman Requiem in 1989 for the Hilliard Ensemble in memory of my friend and sound engineer Bill Cadman, who was killed in the Lockerbie air crash. His death affected me very deeply a...

It Never Rains is a short piece written in the summer of 2010 that was commissioned by Jim Fox for the Californian label Cold Blue Music and is dedicated to them. The title comes from two sources: the...

Gavin Bryars' haunting soundworld is ever present in this trio for bass clarinet, electric guitar and cello. The fusion of electric and acoustic in a bass-dominated tessitura creates a sombre elegy th...