Gerald Barry

When asked what the theme of his play was, Wilde answered 'That we should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality. Gerald...

Barry joins a simple unison melody in high and then low voices with a sparse keyboard accompaniment to create a carol of intoxicating harmony reminiscent of early polyphony.Available for the first tim...

Gerald Barry's new opera is based on Lewis Carroll's two beloved books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. As with Barry's last opera, the lauded The Importance of Being E...

The Chorales are taken from my opera, The Intelligence Park.© Gerald Barry

This work for solo piano is taken from the ensemble work Things That Gain By Being Painted for soprano, speaker, cello and piano. The title comes from the Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon written in the 10...

La musica di Low è basata su Triorchic Blues di Barry, disponibile in una versione per pianoforte solo e in una versione per violino solo. Il pezzo virtuoso, perfetto per qualsiasi duo ambizioso, test...

Gli Etudes possono essere suonati singolarmente o come raccolta in qualsiasi ordine. Molti di questi non sono studi nel senso normale del termine. Sono più che altro biografici, che toccano i pensieri...

In The Asylum comprises three pieces: The Rung, The Potent Rug, and Wigs of Flanders. At times eerie and unsettling, at times playful, and at others almost violent, this eleven-minute work for piano t...

The title of Barry's fourth string quartet refers to a Kafka story of the same name about a trapeze artist who is happy only when aloft. This is striking music, full of fragility, beauty, outbursts an...

Il trombettiere è un soldato della cavalleria o dell'artiglieria che fa segnali con la tromba. (Gerald Barry, 1998) Questo brano può essere eseguito su uno dei seguenti strumenti in diverse trasposizi...

The original version of Triorchic Blues for solo piano was later transformed into this short virtuosic piece for solo violin. Lively and aggressive, the work explores the extremes of the instrument an...

Water Parted is from Barry's opera The Intelligence Park, and tells the story of a composer who has lost the power to write, later rediscovering it through an obsession with a castrato. The work alter...

Written in 1979 after seeing an exhibition of Rothko's paintings in Cologne, Ø is one of Barry's earliest published works. Both piano parts are the same and the composer describes the work as an explo...

This song is a poignant tribute to Barry's teacher, Stockhausen. It was written for the 2008 Aldeburgh Festival programme book and is a setting of an enigmatic letter about friendship, written by Beet...

The opening lines of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time provide the text for Gerald Barry's Long Time. Beginning 'For a long time I used to go to bed early', the work unfolds over gently rising an...