Par BRYARS GAVIN. “Apart from the ten 5-minute string quartets that I wrote in 1992 as the original version of A Man in a Room, Gambling, there are 8 years between my second and third quartets. Another element which finds its way into the quartet comes from my work with groups from the world of early music, particularly from the experience of writing for a consort of viols …. In several places I a…

Par BRYARS GAVIN. String Quartet No. 2 was written in 1990 commissioned by the Huddersfield Festival and the Balanescu Quartet. 'This second quartet is a more relaxed, easy-going piece than the first/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par RIDGLEY SARA / MOLE GAVIN. Chanter il et dire, c'est une série de ressources très flexibles pour faciliter la performance musicale à l'école. Chaque livre a été soigneusement conçu pour que les chansons peuvent être utilisés individuellement, combinés dans trois comédies musicales de dix minutes ou liés ensemble pour créer un spectacle de trente minutes. Toutes les chansons sont faciles à ense…

Par RIDGLEY SARA / MOLE GAVIN. Ces collections imaginatives de chansons en classe vont initier les enfants à une variété de festivals de partout dans le monde. Ils peuvent être attachés en croix des activités de programme d'études et serviront de base de l'idéale pour les assemblys de classe ou des représentations de l'école. Festivals d'hiver couvre la récolte, Halloween, la nuit de mille feux et…

This is a special arrangement for double bass choir of the choral piece Silva Caledonia, written for the Estonian National Male Choir, which sets a text by the Scottish poet Edwin Morgan. It was first performed by them in April 2006. The double bass version was written for the large group of basses, 22 for the first performance, at Basses Loaded, the annual concert from Gary Karr's summer school i…

Cet arrangement quartet de Allegrasco a été prévu pour le clarinettiste Roger Heaton et violinst Alexander Balanescu - deux membres de l'Ensemble de Gavin Bryars - pour effectuer en dehors du contexte du groupe. Allegrasco, qui comporte une clarinette solo avec violin obligato, est un arrangement de compagnon à celle de ' La vieille tour de Löbenicht ' où les rôles sont inversés et la clarinette b…

This is a special arrangement for double bass choir of the choral piece Silva Caledonia, written for the Estonian National Male Choir, which sets a text by the Scottish poet Edwin Morgan. It was first performed by them in April 2006. The double bass version was written for the large group of basses, 22 for the first performance, at Basses Loaded, the annual concert from Gary Karr's summer school i…

Farewell to St. Petersburg. Par BRYARS GAVIN. This concerto has the unusual addition of an optional male voice choir. Many Russian elements influenced Bryars when he was writing the piece, not least the text for the bass voices which is taken from Glinka’s song cycle Farewell to St Petersburg. Bryars writes ‘The orchestration is quite light throughout, so that the singing quality of the double bas…

for electric guitar, 2 violas and cello. Par BRYARS GAVIN. 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 and, pending a recording of this piece, Manfred Eicher asked if I might like to develop an instrumental work from this, using the same instrum…