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Available albums:

Biped (BCGBCD02)

The music for the dance Biped by Merce Cunningham which has been highly acclaimed as one of Merce's most important collaborative works.

Performers:
James Woodrow (electric guitar);
Sophie Harris (cello);
Takehisa Kosugi (violin and hand-held percussion); Gavin Bryars (electric keyboard, double bass, director)

Lockerbie Memorial Concert (BCGBCD03)

This concert given on December 21st 1998, the tenth anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster, was devised by Gavin Bryars, John Potter (Hilliard) and Richard Campbell (Fretwork). It contains a number of works written by Gavin Bryars for both the Hilliard Ensemble and Fretwork along with pieces of early music. The programme ends with Cadman Requiem, written in memory of Bill Cadman, Bryars' sound engineer and friend who was killed at Lockerbie. At the same time early in 1989 as Bryars was writing the Requiem, he was also writing Incipit Vita Nova which celebrates the birth of the first child ('Vita') of other friends. This piece has often been performed alongside the Requiem as a companion piece, and special arrangements of these works with viol consort were given their first public performances here. The other first performance was of three madrigals, from the First Book of Madrigals, which the Cadman family commissioned from Gavin Bryars and his librettist Blake Morrison.

Programme:

Busnois: In Hydraulis (Hilliard);
Bryars: Incipit Vita Nova (David James, Fretwork);
Purcell: 6-part In Nomine;
Bryars: In Nomine (after Purcell) (Fretwork); Nicholas Gombert: Salve Regina
Diversi diversa orant (Hilliard Ensemble); Bryars: from First Book of Madrigals (Hilliard Ensemble);
John Jenkins: 6-part Pavane in F (Fretwork); Bryars: Cadman Requiem (Hilliard Ensemble/ Fretwork).

This was the first time that the Hilliard Ensemble and Fretwork had performed together live.

A Man in a Room, Gambling (BCGBCD04)

All ten of the pieces which Gavin and the Spanish sculptor, the late Juan Muñoz made together as a project for Artangel in 1992.

The ten texts deal with various aspects of card manipulation and are read by Juan, accompanied by string quartet, the Balanescu Quartet. Point released 5 of these pieces, in orchestrations made by Gavin for his ensemble, but were too nervous, or timid, to release all ten....

Performers: Juan Muñoz, spoken voice; Balanescu Quartet; with the occasional spoken voice of Dr. Yukio Fujishima.

Recent releases:

Oi Me Lasso (BCGBCD05)

A Listening Room (BCGBCD08)

On Photography (BCGBCD07)

Glorious Hill (BCGBCD09)

Future plans on GB Records include:

CDs:

Invention of Tradition (BCGBCD01)

The first collaboration between Bill Cadman and Gavin Bryars for the opening of the Tate Gallery, Liverpool in May 1988, recorded live in the Albert Dock Liverpool and featuring the organs of both Liverpool Cathedrals (Anglican and Catholic), brass, percussion, voices and woodwind

I send you this Cadmium Red
(scheduled for release June 2006)

A radio work with John Berger and John Christie, and featuring members of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble (Roger Heaton, James Woodrow, Bill Hawkes, Gavin Bryars)

The Island Chapel

The original live recording for a project at the Tate Gallery St Ives, made in the tiny chapel on the cliffs overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Performers Melanie Pappenheim, voice; Sophie Harris, cello; Gavin Bryars, electric keyboard.

Gavin Bryars Ensemble live I

Live recordings of repertoire which, in many cases, has been substantially revised from existing versions.

Writings on Water

A live recording of the last performance at the Theatre de la Ville, Paris. This contains the following works≤

1. Introit - strings and piano
2. Lauda 1 - unaccompanied voice (Anna Maria Friman)
3. The North Shore - for solo viola, strings and piano
4. In Nomine (after Purcell) - for strings
5. Violin Concerto (≥the Bulls of Bashan≤) - for solo violin and strings.

Introit was written specially for the Paris performances and accompanied a video by Peter Knapp.

The Lauda was written specially for this work and is sung in a recorded verison by Anna Maria Friman. In

Nomine (after Purcell) was arranged for modern strings from the original viol consort piece specially for this project.

With the violin concerto there is one player per part and this gives an unusual chamber music quality to the piece.

Gavin Bryars directs Introit and The North Shore from the piano, and conducts the other works.

These works were performed by an ensemble of 11 strings (5 violins, 2 violas, 2 celli, 2 basses) plus piano.
Andrea Vigano, solo violin
Valerio Sannicandro, solo viola
Gavin Bryars, piano and conductor