Gavin Bryars

Written by double bass player Gavin Bryars, this arrangement is one of a series of works for double bass ensemble. Originally scored for viola, cello, double bass and electric guitar, Epilogue from Wo...

Bryars' Two Love Songs are stunning works for vocal trio or three-part female choir. Setting two of Petrarca's lyric poems of profound and idealised love, the words and music complement each other in...

A Family Likeness a été écrit pour The Society of Recorder Players en Angleterre et a été créé en 2008 avec un grand succès. Cette musique est caractéristique de Gavin Bryars et constituerait une intr...

This organ chorale is a setting of the opening chorus of Bryars' second opera Doctor Ox's Experiment.

The works in these three volumes for eight-part male choir are settings of sonnets by late Scottish Poet Laureate, Edwin Morgan (1920-2010). An admirer of Morgan's virtuosic poetry, Bryars wrote Silva...

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...

'Laude' were short mediaeval devotional songs to the Virgin Mary, and Gavin Bryars has kept to the pure, lyrical style of the originals. Following the successful publication of Bryars' first volume of...

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Gavin Bryars has written prolifically for choirs of all abilities in a range of styles, from his sombre 'Cadman Requiem' to his uplifting song 'The Open Road', written for and performed by 300 people...

Glorious Hill may be performed by a male choir.Text by Pico della Mirandola (1463-1497) from De Hominis Dignitate.Glorious Hill was commissioned by the Hilliard Ensemble and first performed by them at...

Commissioned by the York Early Music Foundation for the Orlando Consort, Super Flumina focuses on a legend associated with St Mary's Abbey in York where in 1377 fisherman brought the lifeless body of...

My collection of laude has its origins in the world of early music, being based in spirit and feeling on the unaccompanied vocal 'laude' found in a collection from 13th century Cortona. The people who...

Les œuvres contenues dans ces trois volumes pour chœur d'hommes à huit parties proviennent d'une mise en musique de sonnets d'Edwin Morgan, poète lauréat écossais (1920-2010). Bryars, grand admirateur...

The works in these three volumes for eight-part male choir are settings of sonnets by late Scottish Poet Laureate, Edwin Morgan (1920-2010). An admirer of Morgan's virtuosic poetry, Bryars wrote Silva...

Like many Englishmen I had sung madrigals for pleasure - usually late at night with friends, after several glasses of wine. While these madrigals have their charm, and many are extremely beautiful, I...

Originally for solo cello, 'Tre Laude Dolçe' is characterised by long phrases and open structures; a beautiful work perfect for any good bassist.

Cet arrangement de la Lamentation de Didon fut composé à l'occasion des funérailles de Frank Campbell, un ami du compositeur. Par respect pour Frank qui était un pianiste accompli, aucune musique inst...

The choice of 16th century texts, by Bronzino and Battiferri, reflects the interests of the dedicatee of these sonnets - Craig Hugh Smyth, a fine art historian and former director of the Villa I Tatti...

En 2012, Blake Morrison et Gavin Bryars ont écrit une pièce radiophonique, The Pythagorean Comma, qui se déroule dans un village isolé et s'inspire d'une œuvre de Jules Verne, dans laquelle un orgue d...