Bryars
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Special offer. Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century
RecommendedThe Crossing & PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Donald Nally
The Fifth Century is signature Bryars but no less affecting for its familiar soundworld...The text is fascinating...but it is equally possible to allow the words to wash over you entirely and... —
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Choral Performance
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Gavin Bryars's music and the special qualities of the Latvian Radio Choir fit one another like hand and glove. And the glorious acoustic of Riga Cathedral lends its aura to his CadmanRequiem... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2008, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Gavin Bryars & Christopher Hobbs: Ensemble Pieces
Gavin Bryars, Christopher Hobbs, John White, Cornelius Cardew, Mike Nicolls, Derek Bailey (guitar), Andy MacKay, Paul Nieman, Stuart Deeks, Brian Eno (keyboard), Celia Gollin, Fred Frith (guitar)
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Bryars - On Photography
Edgars Saksons (percussion), Janis Maleckis (piano) & Gavin Bryars (harmonium)
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava
The choir's every bit as good as Bryars says it is, with a focused and clear yet wonderfully rich sound. The recordings, made in two churches in the Latvian capital Riga, are a marvel, capturing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice
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Bryars: Nothing Like The Sun
Peyee Chen (soprano), John Potter (tenor), Gavin Friday (speaking voice), Anna Coleman (bass clarinet/clarinet), James Woodrow (electric/acoustic guitar), Rebecca Lagos (percussion), Roland Peelman (piano), Morgan Goff (viola), Imants Larsens (viola), Nick Cooper (cello), Gavin Bryars (double bass)
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Special offer. Bryars, Skempton, Pärt
Anna Fraser (soprano) & Alex Knight (baritone)
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Gavin Bryars
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Special offer. Gavin Bryars: Piano Concerto (The Solway Canal)
Ralph van Raat (piano)
Cappella Amsterdam, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Otto Tausk
The orchestral writing in the Concerto...shares something of the melancholy beauty of [his most famous pieces]. The rippling piano part runs through the entire 28 minutes without a pause, while... —
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The inexorable ebb and flow in Bryars's music distils the sense of musical portraiture represented in The Church Closest to the Sea… There are moments of distilled beauty, too, in the earlier,... —
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Special offer. Gavin Bryars: New York
Les Percussions Claviers de Lyon, L'Ensemble de Basse-Normandie, Dominique Debart
Bryars's synthesis of system and sentimentality is aimed at unlocking the expressive potential of the percussion ensemble, and his use of restlessly repetitive figures, fragile harmonic shifts... —
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Special offer. Gavin Bryars & Blake Morrison: The Stopping Train
Blake Morrison (narrator), James Woodrow (electric guitar), Morgan Goff (viola), Nick Cooper (cello), Gavin Bryars (double bass)
