Gavin Bryars

Gavin Bryars has returned once again to the poetry of George Bruce and the 'Five Songs from Northern Seas' are dedicated to his memory in his centenary year. Bryars describes the five evocative poems:...

One Last Bar Then Joe Can Sing (1994) was commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain for the percussion quintet Nexus, and is a reflection on aspects of percussion history, both personal and mu...

One Last Bar Then Joe Can Sing (1994) was commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain for the percussion quintet Nexus, and is a reflection on aspects of percussion history, both personal and mu...

Spielpartitur - mit Klavierauszug, nur zur Probe

'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' volumes 1-3 of...

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...

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...

A Family Likeness' was written for The Society of Recorder Players in the UK and was a great success at its premiere in 2008. The music is characteristically that of Gavin Bryars and would be an ideal...

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...

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...

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...

A Family Likeness' was written for The Society of Recorder Players in the UK and was a great success at its premiere in 2008. The music is characteristically that of Gavin Bryars and would be an ideal...

Gavin Bryars' two Billesdon Carols - New Prince, new Pomp and The Golden Carol of the Three Kings - were written especially for the village of Billesdon's Christmas carol service where the composer li...

Chorpartitur inkl. Klavierstimme für Probezwecke

Unaccompanied Chorus SATBarB

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...

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...