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1971
Derek Bailey
LP, later re-issued as CD
1975
The Sinking of the Titanic
Obscure 1 (later Editions EG EGED21)
LP, later re-issued as CD
Ensemble Pieces
1,2,1-2-3-4
Ensemble directed by Gavin Bryars
(also includes works by John Adams and Christopher Hobbs)
Obscure 2 (later Editions EG EGED22)
LP only
1976
Machine Pieces
Obscure 8 (later Editions EG EGED28)
LP only
1977
Irma
Irma
an opera by Tom Phillips, music by Gavin Bryars, libretto by Fred Orton
Ensemble directed by Gavin Bryars (string section is the 8-part 'new violin family')
Obscure 9 (later Editions EG EGED29)
LP only
English Experimental Music
Ponukelian Melody
John White, Christopher Hobbs, Gavin Bryars.
(also includes works by John White, Howard Skempton, Christopher Hobbs, Michael Parsons)
Audio Arts Vol. 3 No.2
Cassette only
1980
Pipe 2 Miniatures
After Mendelssohn
John White, Gavin Bryars
(This is one of many pieces on the record by a variety of composers. Each piece lasts less than one minute).
LP and Microcassette.
From Brussels With Love
White's SS (extract)
John White, Christopher Hobbs, Gavin Bryars
(includes a range of works from Crepuscule's initial catalogue)
Crepuscule TWI 007
Cassette only
1981
Hommages
Crepuscule TWI 027
LP and CD (TWI 027-2, issued 1990)
1986
Three Viennese Dancers
LP and CD
1987
Myths 3 La Nouvelle Srnit
Sketch for Sub Rosa
Andrew Hugill (then Thomson), Gavin Bryars
(also includes works by Harold Budd, John Hassell, Gregorian Chant)
Sub Rosa
LP and CD
1988
Invention of Tradition
(Tate Gallery) BCGBCD01
CD only
1990
Hommage Luc Etienne R.
The Cross Channel Ferry
G.W.Welch
(also includes works by Andrew Hugill, Cyril Lefebvre, Joseph Racaille, and Luc Etienne)
Cymbalum Pataphysicum1
Cassette only
The Sinking of the Titanic
Crepuscule TWI 922-2
CD only
1991
After The Requiem
LP and CD
Musica Sin Frontera vol. II
Titanic Lament
Gavin Bryars Ensemble
(also includes works by Kenya, Julee Cruise, Bell Canto, Laurie Anderson, Angela Badalamenti, Suso Saiz, Mark Isham, Durruti Column, Steve Reich, Andreas Vollenweider, Miles Davis, Roger Eno, Peter Seiler, Lito Vitale, Wim Mertens, John Cale, Penguin Caf Orchestra)
GASA (Spain) XE 9G0455
LP, CD, Cassette (boxed set of all 3 formats)
Un Peu, Pas Vraiment
1992
John Harle
The Green Ray
John Harle and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta
(also includes works by Michael Nyman, Mike Westbrook)
Decca 433 847-2
LP and CD
The Garden
The White Lodge
Nicola Walker Smith
(also includes works by Michael Finnissy, Errolyn Wallen, Geoff Smith, George Aperghis)
Kitchenware KWCD 017
CD only
1993
(plus works by Gorecki, Satie, Milhaud)
(New long version for CD also released on cassette, plus 2 "single" versions for UK release, and 3 "single" versions for Benelux and rest of world)
Point 438-823-2
1994
Vita Nova
Terminal Velocity
Argo 443 214-2
Stone: Wind: Rain: Sun
Clarinet Classics CC0009
Gavin Bryars Ensemble, Wenhaston Boys Choir, Ziella & Orlanda Bryars, Lucy and Camilla Thornton (additional strings)
Point 446-061-2
(Issued in Japan, 1995, in special edition with Aphex Twin: Raising the Titanic)
1995
The Last Days
Argo 448 175-2
1996
Farewell to Philosophy
1997
Point 456 514-2
New
Alaric I or II
4uatre
(plus works by Nyman, Balanescu, Macy, Balakrishnan)
Daphno 9703
Alaric I or II
Vienna Saxophone Quartet
(plus works by Reich, Ligeti, Carl)
Lotus Records Salzburg LR 9722CD
Sit Fast
In Nomine (After Purcell)
Fretwork
(also works by Guy, Ruders, Dun, Bainbridge, Beamish, Sculthorpe, Costello, Ockeghem, Ferrabosco, Tye, Isaac)
Virgin Classics 7243 545217 2 0
1998
Point 462 511-2
The Sinking of the Titanic
Virgin CDVE 938 7243 8 45970 2 3
(CD re-issue of 1975 Obscure Records)
English Harpsichord Music
National Trust NTCD013
Gavin Bryars
Daphno 9810
1999
Clarinet Classics
Delta Saxophone Quartet
Harmonia Ensemble plays Gavin Bryars
Materiali Sonore MASO CD 90108
Miles' Mode. (J Coltrane)
Tony Oxley drums, Gavin Bryars bass, Derek Bailey guitar
Incus CD Single 01
2000
Mining the Archive
JH
Bob
Tony Oxley drums, Gavin Bryars bass, Derek Bailey guitar
Incus CD 39
2001
BIPED
Gavin Bryars electric keyboard, double bass, director
James Woodrow, electric guitar
Sophie Harris, cello
Takehisa Kosugi, violin, hand-held percussion
2002
Three String Quartets
The Lyric Quartet
Jonathan Carney - violin
Edmung Coxon - violin
Nick Barr - viola
David Daniels - cello
Black Box BBM1079
I have heard it said that a spirit enters...
Holly Cole - voice
Gwen Hoebig - violin,
Gavin Bryars - double bass
CBC Radio orchestra, conductor Owen Underhill
Following the concert at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival on June 30th, Gavin recorded a new album for CBC Records. This was released late October 2002 in Canada, and will be released in the New Year elsewhere. The US distributor is Naxos, the UK distributor is Kingdom. The album title is from the new song which opens the album, written for Holly Cole and setting a text by Marilyn Bowering from her novel To All Appearances a Lady. Gavin makes a rare appearance as an improvising soloist in his double-bass concerto By The Vaar.
CBC Records SMCD 5223
Gavin Bryars, a portrait
A double CD for release on Gavins 60th birthday (January 16th 2003) which pulls together a number of works recorded on Point, Philips and Decca over the last twelve years.
Much of the Point/Phillips/ Decca catalogue has disappeared and now only Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet and The Sinking of the Titanic remain. The existence of the CBC album, and the emergence of GB Records helped form the rationale for selecting the above tracks. So, although the Charlie Haden version of By the Vaar is out of print, there will be the new Gavin Bryars version on CBC. Although the studio recording of Cadman Requiem is deleted, the live performance is available on GB Records. Although the Point recording of A Man in a Room, Gambling is out of print, the full set of ten is available on GB Records...
Universal Philips 473 296-2
Lockerbie Memorial Concert
Personnel:
Hilliard Ensemble: David James, Steven Harrold, John Potter, Gordon Jones
Fretwork: Richard Campbell, Wendy Gillespie, Julia Hodgson, Susanna Pell, Richard Boothby, William Hunt
Tracks:
1. Busnois: In Hydraulis 7.31
2. Bryars: Incipit Vita Nova 5.44
3. Purcell: 6-Part In Nomine 2.34
4 Bryars: In Nomine (after Purcell) 8.51
5. Gombert: Salve Regina/ Diversi diversa orant 8.27
6. Bryars: Stormy (First Book of Madrigals) 3.08
7. Bryars: Web (First Book of Madrigals) 3.14
8. Bryars: Almond Tree (from First Book of Madrigals) 2.51
9. Jenkins: 6-part Pavane in F 6.40
(10-14) Bryars: Cadman Requiem
10. Requiem 9.29
11. Caedmon Paraphrase (Bede) 2.59
12. Agnus Dei 5.02
13. Caedmons Creation Hymn 2.17
14. In Paradisum 6.12
Total running time 74.59
GB Records
BCGBCD03
A Man in a Room, Gambling
(complete)
Performers:
Juan Muoz, Yukio Fujishima, The Balanescu Quartet (Alexander Balanescu, Claire Connors, Bill Hawkes, Caroline Dale/ Pal Banda, cello)
Tracks:
1. Programme One ('Bottom dealing') 5.05
2. Programme Two ('Three Card Trick')5.05
3. Programme Three ('Cutting') 5.04
4. Programme Four ('Shifting upper pack to bottom') 5.05
5. Programme Five ('Sorting 3 cards in a pack') 5.04
6. Programme Six ('Taking cards from the bottom') 5.04
7. Programme Seven ('Sorting 2 cards in a pack') 5.05
8. Programme Eight ('Getting rid of extra cards') 5.05
9. Programme Nine ('Three Card Trick - the Mexican Row') 5.05
10 Programme Ten (reprise 'Dealing from the bottom')5.05
Total Running Time 51.33
GB Records
BCGBCD04
Oi Me Lasso
Performers:
Anna Maria Friman, soprano
John Potter, tenor
Morgan Goff, viola
Nick Cooper, cello
Gavin Bryars, double bass
Tracks:
1. Lauda 17 Ave vergene gaudente 2:40
2. Lauda 4 Oi me lasso 4:50
3. Lauda 29 O divina virgo, flore 2:51
4. Lauda 26 Plangiamo quell crudel basciar 4:14
5. Lauda 6 Da ciel venne messo novello 3:11
6. Lauda 13 Stomme allegro 4:38
7. Lauda 19 Omne homo 2:40
8. Lauda 10 O Maria domelia 3:42
9. Lauda 27 Lauda vollio per amore 3:04
10. Lauda 8 Regina sovrana 3:01
11. Lauda 12 Alta trinita beata 3:11
12. Lauda 15 O Maria dei cella 2:57
13. Lauda 9 Ave dei genitrix 3:16
14. Lauda 16 Laudamo la resurrectione 3:30
15. Lauda 28 Amor dole sena pare 6:11
total running time: 55:11
GB Records BCGBCD05
BCGBCD07
(Editors Choice for Gramophone 2005)
Dedicated to the memory of Susan Sontag
Performers
Latvian Radio Choir,
conductors
Sigvards Klava (tracks 1,2,3,4,5,9,10);
Kaspars Putnins (tracks 6,7,8)
Tracks
1. Gavin Bryars: And so ended Kants travelling in this world 7:50
(2-4) Gavin Bryars: Three poems of Cecco Angiolieri
2. La mia malinconia 3:45
3. Si fosse foco. 4:40
4. La stremita 5:28
5. Arturs Maskats: "Da ispravitsja molitva moja 9:06
(6-8) Gavin Bryars: On Photography
6. Expressa Solis 2:35
7. Expressa Solis/ Tersa Perfetta 17:10
8. Resonare fibris.. 3:29
(9-10) Valentin Silvestrov: Diptychon
9. The Lords Prayer 5:36
10. Testament 10:14
Total Running Time 70:39
GB Records BCGBCD07
A Listening Room
GB Records BCGBCD08
Music written and recorded for an installation at Chateau dOiron in western France.
This is a listening room, an installation that takes the form of an acoustic map of the chateau. For this, specific music was written in order to establish the architectural acoustic of each space and to animate the spaces in which the music was played. This was recorded ambisonically and a listening room was established in the chateau where the listener can hear the natural acoustic of each source room. This room is, therefore, both a map of the space and a space in itself. Along with Gavin Bryars himself, there are two members of his own ensemble, and his own sound designer and engineer. In addition he uses the village band (La Fanfare d'Oiron) accepting the eccentricities of their performance, and adding three players to the ensemble for two rooms.
This recording is a unique recording of that installation, which has played in the chateau since 1993, and has also been exhibited at the 2006 Alvar Aalto Architecture Symposium and in the Muse d'Angers, France an exhibition devoted to major British sculpture in the French National Collection, and this work is included in that category!
an autographed album is available as a direct order from GB Records
2006
Joseph Holbrooke double CD
2007
Glorious Hill
GB Records BCGBCD09 (Editors Choice for Gramophone Feb 2008)
Second album with the Latvian Radio Choir,
conductors
Sigvards Klava (tracks 1,2,3,4,5,9,10);
Kaspars Putnins
Includes laude, Glorious Hill, Cadman Requiem (choir and organ version) and two pieces by the guest composers Eriks Esenvalds and Peters Vasks.
an autographed album is available as a direct order from GB Records
The Sinking of the Titanic
Touch Records
Marvellous Aphorisms
Mute
Ghost Stories
Smith Quartet
2008
coming out soon on GB Records label:
Amjad (BCGBCD10)
Music, after Tchaikovsky, for the ballet by Edouard Lock for La La La Human Steps
Silva Caledonia (BCGBCD11)
recorded with Estonian Male Choir
I Send You This Cadmium Red (BCGBCD06)
a unique conversation between John Berger and John Christie accompanied by Gavin's music
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