Gavin Bryars

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 è stato scritto per la Society of Recorder Players in Inghilterra e presentato in anteprima con grande successo nel 2008. La musica è tipica di Gavin Bryars e rappresenta un'introduz...

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...

Laude are short popular hymns of praise to the Virgin Mary, dating from the 14th century, and Gavin Bryars has kept to their original exquisite simplicity of style. Laude Cortonese has been recorded b...

Laude are short popular hymns of praise to the Virgin Mary, dating from the 14th century, and Gavin Bryars has kept to their original exquisite simplicity of style. Laude Cortonese has been recorded b...

'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...

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...

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.

This arrangement of Dido's Lament was written for the funeral of the composer's friend Frank Campbell. As Frank was such an accomplished pianist, no keyboard music was included in the service in defer...

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...

Nel 2012 Blake Morrison e Gavin Bryars hanno scritto un radiodramma, The Pythagorean Comma, ambientato in un villaggio remoto e basato su un'opera di Jules Verne, in cui l'organo della chiesa - in par...

Nel 2012 Blake Morrison e Gavin Bryars hanno scritto un radiodramma, The Pythagorean Comma, ambientato in un villaggio remoto e basato su un'opera di Jules Verne, in cui l'organo della chiesa - in par...