Bryars, Gavin

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Achingly beautiful.
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if you have even a passing interest in Ambient music....

Discreet Music

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Release Date: 2004-10-05

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i wanna clear things up for reviewer Ba "Ba".......2006-08-28

the Canon in D major by Johann Pachelbel part of the cd is an actual intruments, only the first track is done with the reel to reel tape device. maybe people should read more liner notes.

Brian Eno.......2005-10-06

I simply do not understand how Brian Eno can get credit for running others' music thorugh a fancy FX loop, claim that its "ambient" music and get crdit for it as if people had never lsitened to music in the back ground.

Achingly beautiful........2005-06-13

One of the early masterpieces of ambient music, Eno's "Discreet Music" really defies description. Broken into two halves, the extended "Discreet Music" and "Three Variations on the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel", the music is delicate, balanced, beautiful, and stirring.

"Discreet Music" consists, per Eno's description in the liner notes, of "two simple and mutually compatible melodic lines of different duration stored on a digital recall system" that are occasionally altered "by means of a graphic equalizer". Put simply, two loops play, of differing lengths, for the period of about 30 minutes, rising and falling, swelling and coming and going, intertwining with each other. What is most amazing is how these two simple statements can be so unbelievably powerful, emotionally overwhelming, and purely engaging. It is really one of the finest pieces in all of Eno's catalog.

The Pachelbel canon variations are somewhat less interesting, though still quite enjoyable Again from the liner notes, "[e]ach variation takes a small section of the score (two to four bars) as its starting point, and permutates the players' parts such that they overlay each other in ways not suggested by the original score". The result is breathtaking, and adds a familiar resonance to it.

Anyone interested in ambient music should likely start here or w Cuisine et paysages/bourgogne 082997

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Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
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Gavin Bryars Never Failed Me Yet

Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

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Release Date: 1993-08-10

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Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra I (String Quartet)
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra II (Low Strings)
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra III (No Strings)
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra IV (Full Strings)
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This late minimalist, 74-minute piece for orchestra and tape has had, and continues to have, a near-legendary effect on its audience. It's the rare work created specifically to tug gently at one's heartstrings that actually does, and not subtly, either. It starts with a found recording of a homeless man singing a halting, simple melody looped over and over. Then Bryars builds and buttresses this with a full orchestra brought in incrementally, from the first carefully placed short pendulum string sweep to, 10 minutes from the end, the gravelly-voiced singer Tom Waits joins in. It's an obvious but effective work--appealing to all the basics of our emotional nervous system, but still tragically beautiful. --Robin Edgerton

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excellent.......2007-05-07

the item purchased is in perfect condition and it has been shipped in time

Almost there (get rid of tom waits).......2007-04-10

This is a pretty moving and relaxing piece, especially considering that a single sample is looped for 74 minutes but around it there is slow orchestral development. Near the end, it is completely destroyed by the annoying and gratuitous addition of Tom Waits. If you can, I suggest finding a shorter copy of it with no Tom Waits on it, apparently Bryars made a 60 minute version for tape and a 25 minute version for vinyl both before this one and both out of print for Brian Eno's Obscure label.

Unique and Magnificent.......2007-03-30

A fantastic work with an incredible story behind it. I originally heard an exerpt from this work which was played during a radio interview, and I was absolutely captivated. I think this CD is great, however my partner and a couple of friends have suggested it is a little too repetitive. I think the repetition, with such a subtle progression, is the key to this deeply moving album. I would highly recommend this as an interesting and unique addition to any music library. Be aware: playing the full CD may not be to everyone's liking, although I think most would enjoy some smaller portion of the 74+ minutes. I think few would not be touched by the story behind it!

Borrow it first.......2006-11-06

Buy CDs that you expect you'll want to play reasonably often; otherwise borrow them, as I did with this one, from a library - - that'd be my advice. Borrow it again if you find you want to listen to it again.

I don't think this is a religious piece; at least, to me it seems to be about experimentation (taken, as one reviewer put it, to the breaking point). It concludes with Mr. Waits sounding truly drunken.

I made it through the entire CD in two sittings.

Gavin Bryars Never Failed Me Yet.......2006-03-30

The controvery rages. Is it rubbish or a work of genius?

When I first heard the original on Sinking Of The Titanic, I thought it was really irritating, and I couldn't get the tune out of my head for days. I put the cd away for a few weeks......and then something made me pull it out and listen again. Still irritating.....but there was something about it that made me want to come back and give it another go. The third time around, I *really* started to listen -- and I was hooked. The gradual background (at first) orchestration grows into something fascinating and wonderful, and you just *have* to listen.

Forget about the religious aspect. It's doesn't detract from the music, and I don't think Bryars meant for this to be a religious work anyway. It's an extremely moving piece, simple, rich, and gloriously done. And probably unlike anything else you've ever heard.

Listening to a short clip won't do you any good, but the cd sells cheap enough to take a chance on for a complete listen. But be forewarned: even one complete listen ain't gonna do it. You'll have to stay with this one for a few more turns to appreciate it. You'll want to use the cd for an air catcher on your wind chimes at first, but hang in there, and you'll be richly rewarded.

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Release Date: 2006-05-23

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TOTALLY FUN & FAB!.......2006-07-12

Every aspect of this CD gets 5 stars. (Even the cover art is ado Le livre de bord du savoir-vivre

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ringtone88.com of the most beautiful cello tones I've ever heard!) Not only children can enjoy this album but old farts like me can enjoy it too--I enjoyed the album immensely! Although the works on a "Children's Cello" require only a short attention span, they are very beautiful and intriguing (the album is filled with some of the most gorgeous short peices for cello and piano that I've ever heard!).

I particularly liked the compositions by Stutchewsky (from his "Six Israeli Melodies") along with the composition by Amy Beach. Steven and Stephen both contributed delightful compositions of their own to the recording. Isserlis's composition, "The Haunted House" has the esteemed actor, Simon Callow as narrator.

Do buy this album for any potential young musician or, like me, buy the album just to enjoy some wonderful rather unknown short works for cello and piano (some arrangements such as Boccherini's "Minute' are included also included is Mendelssohn's "Song Without Word" Opus 109)

(Steven Isserlis also wrote the notes in the album that are both informative and very humorous!)

Bryars: The Sinking Of The Titanic / Barnett, Bryars Ensemble, et al
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Music For Sinking Ships

Unobtrusively ambient

Meditative

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Plaintive, haunted and hypnotic.

Bryars: The Sinking Of The Titanic / Barnett, Bryars Ensemble, et al

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ASIN: B0000040UW
Release Date: 1995-02-14

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The Sinking Of The Titanic: Opening Part I
The Sinking Of The Titanic: Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings
The Sinking Of The Titanic: Hymn II
The Sinking Of The Titanic: Interlude
The Sinking Of The Titanic: Hymn III
The Sinking Of The Titanic: Hymn IV (Aughton)
The Sinking Of The Titanic: Opening Part II
The Sinking Of The Titanic: Titanic Lament
The Sinking Of The Titanic: Woodblocks
The Sinking Of The Titanic: Last Hymn
The Sinking Of The Titanic: Coda

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Bryars's The Sinking of the Titanic is one of the oddest and at the same time most mesmerizing works to come out of this end of the century. It began in 1972 as an abstract art piece that kept on building and changing in the composer's mind. It's a ghostly tapestry of eerie echoes, distant sounds almost like whale songs, and interjected rifts representing the band that was playing even as the boat sank. This is a masterpiece that rewards repeated listenings. --Paul Cook

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Music For Sinking Ships.......2007-04-03

"The Sinking of The Titanic" is a beautifully subtle, evocative, and haunting work. Though composed before ambient music became its own genre, I would defintely describe it as such. Gavin Bryars utilizes strings, minimalist vocals and 'found sounds' to paint this mournful yet hopeful soundscape that seems to float. If you're looking for great ambient/contemporary classical music without any annoying bombastic percussion mucking things up, you'll love this gorgeous work.

Unobtrusively ambient.......2004-12-04

Like Phil Glass this piece relies on repeating relatively simple patterns in layers that slowly change the overall colour of the sound without any obvious melodic or key changes. Unlike Phil Glass rhythm has virtually no place in this piece. It moves like a light mist over the valley of your listening ear.

Predominantly strings, pensive but not unhappy in mood, it would be a fitting to have it playing in the submersible's cd player while you scouted around the wreck of the Titanic when it was on the bottom of the ocean, wondering about the what-ifs of the lives lost, who last drank out of that coral encrusted champagne glass, who's pocket that coin fell from...

Also good to go to sleep to if, like me, you love to drift off to music.

Meditative.......2001-02-06

I wonder how many people bought this recording thinking it had something to do with the "Titanic" movie? And if so, how many kept the recording? Their loss. This is a great work, well performed and recorded. Repetitious without being monotonous, it's the aural equivalent of watching light move across the water as seen from beneath the surface. Recommended to fans of Eno, Philip Glass, and their contemporaries.

probably perfect..........2000-06-25

This music destroys me. I'm a huge fan of pretty much everything Gavin Bryar's has recorded, but this one probably beats out all else. It's a tough call between this and 'Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet', but I think this one wins out. 'Titanic' is some of the most beautiful, haunting music that I've ever heard. I've heard it called good ambient music, good music to play in the background. I couldn't disagree more. This is music that -demands- every iota of your attention. Put it on, lie down, turn out the lights and just listen to the whole thing. It is a truly overpowering experience. Bryar's has a way of doing this.

Plaintive, haunted and hypnotic........2000-04-09

As Bryars explained in the sleevenotes, The Sinking Of The Titanic is a musical equivalence of a piece of conceptual art, I couldn't agree more. The plaintive, haunted and hypnotic piece creates a three-dimensional music-scape and effective draws the audience into it. Bryars is a minimalist, his mastery shines through the no nonsense arrangement of the piece. The Sinking, with its languid melodies, dreamlike tones and environmental noises, is reminiscent of the Ambient genre. But is should be noted that the piece was originally written in the late sixties, a time when the term "ambient" was yet to be coined. Also, The Sinking consists of mostly live orchestra sounds, which is way more sophisticated and transcendent than electronic sounds. Recommended!

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Fascinating and captivating
perfection to little effect
Wonderful
Coldly beautiful

Soir, Dit-Elle
Oleh Harkavyy , Leonel Power , Gavin Bryars , Unspecified , Ivan Moody , Gregorian Chant , and Trio Mediaeval
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The Trio Mediaeval's first CD, Words of the Angel, was an ear-opener, a CD of mostly old music interspersed with some modern works, all ravishingly sung, and, oddly, very harmonious over its span of centuries. This CD features most of a mass by the 15th-century Englishman Leonel Power, with works by the Ukrainian Oleh Harkavyy (b. 1968) and the British Ivan Moody (b. 1964), Gavin Bryars (b.1943), and Andrew Smith (b. 1970); there is more new music than old. The Harkavyy Kyrie sounds "older" than all of the Power, which is oddly dense and surprising in its harmonies. A Bryars "Ave Regina" and "Laude Novella" (this last for solo voice) wafts in and out of oldness and modernity in novel but not uncomfortable ways, and Andrew Smith offers an "Ave Maria" and "Regina Caeli" which are distinctly modern but simply beautiful--and wonderfully pious. The two works by Ivan Moody, while not as staggeringly beautiful and daring as his contributions to the Trio's premiere CD, are almost as beautiful, growing in loveliness with each hearing. A Gregorian Chant ends this CD of devotional music. The whole is d 100 recettes de cuisine traditionnelle armenienne

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ringtone88.com border="0"> Coldly beautiful.......2004-06-03

Trio Mediaeval, a three-women European a cappella choir, presents here a minimalist programme of medieval three-part harmony mixed with 20th century pieces in the same style.

Leonel Power's (1370-1445) Missa "Alma redemptoris mater" is presented in its entirety but broken up with pieces by English composers Ivan Moody, Gavin Bryars and Andrew Smith, and Ukrainian Oleh Harkavyy. Power stood alongside John Dunstable as one of the great English composers of the 14th-15th centuries. This mass is probably one of the earliest to use the same "cantus firmus" in all four movements. The chant is repeated by the low voice throughout while the two upper voices create an intricate counterpoint.

The contemporary composers here draw their inspiration from ancient texts and chants to make their own individual polyphony, but sharing the same austere atmosphere as Power's mass.

Trio Mediaeval follows in the footsteps of Anonymous 4 in bringing the beauty of Medieval a cappella vocal music to the public. Tonally Trio Mediaeval is very similar to Anonymous 4 but doesn't quite match that group's precision of vocal delivery. Nevertheless, a nicely recorded album with a touch of cold beauty.

Gavin Bryars: Oi Me Lasso
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Gavin Bryars: Oi Me Lasso

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ASIN: B0007X9TL6
Release Date: 2005-04-12

Tracks:

Ave Vergene Gaudente (Lauda 17)
Oi Me Lasso (Lauda 4)
O Divina Virgo, Flore (Lauda 29)
Plangiamo Quell Crudel Basciar (Lauda 26)
Da Ciel Venne Messo Novello (Lauda 6)
Stomme Allegro (Lauda 13)
Omne Homo (Lauda 19)
O Maria D'omelia (Lauda 19)
Lauda Vollio Per Amore (Lauda 27)
Regina Sovrana (Lauda 8)
Alta Trinita Beata (Lauda 12)
O Maria Dei Cella (Lauda 15)
Ave Dei Genitrix (Lauda 9)
Laudamo La Resurrectione (Lauda 16)
Amor Dolce Senca Pare (Lauda 28)

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'Oi Me Lasso' is representative of a series of Gavin Bryars works inspired by the unaccompanied laudes (songs of praise to the Virgin Mary) popular in the later Middle Ages, particularly the 14th century collection known as Laudes Cortonese. The laudesi who originally sang the laudes banded together in confraternities but were not usually associated with any particular church, and this music was not part of any liturgy. Composing some 50 of these modern interpretations of the laudes has become an ongoing project for Bryars, slipped in between other projects he is working on. Each lauda is dedicated to the performer(s) for whom it was written, always including soprano Anna Maria Friman.

Anna Maria Friman is a member of the spectacularly successful Norwegian early music group Trio Medieval and she has made numerous solo appearances with important early and new music groups. John Potter was a member of the Hilliard Ensemble from 1984 to 2001 and was the founder of the early music group Red Byrd.

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IF NOT FOR BRYARS.......2005-08-16

Throughout Bryars' work -- from the conceptually driven pieces like "The Sinking of the Titanic" to the sacred works such as this -- there is always a sense of profound care and delicacy. With "Oi Me Lasso" Bryars has effectively brought the tranquility of Medieval Lauds within range of 21st century hearing.

If the sometimes overly homogenous tonality of plainchant and early music seem a bit shallow to your ears, "Oi Me Lasso" is an excellent way to hear the profound change in shading and depth that can be achieved by an appropriately more sophisticated sonic palette. Working strictly within the constraints of the form, Bryars creates more compelling settings without overtly disturbing the reflective nature of the traditional forms he utilizes -- or repurposes -- for these compositions. Bryars also plays on these recordings, but the weight of the performances belong to John Potter, a founder of Red Byrd, (an ensemble that has released some remarkable recordings, though much more aggressive in performance and interpretation than the music you'll find here) and Maria Friman of the already well-known Trio Medieval, each contributing work that is both restrained and beautiful.

"Oi Me Lasso" is a remarkable accomplishment, achieving a balance rich in both tradition and innovation.

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Release Date: 2005-06-14

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La Mia Malinconia ...
S'i' Fosse Foco ...
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Da Ispravitsja Molitva Moja
Expressa Solis
Expressa Solis/Tersa Perfetta
Resonare Fibris
The Lord's Prayer
Testament

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The first in a series of Gavin Bryar's recordings with the Latvian Radio choir featuring his own works and those of Latvian and other composers!

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JUST RECENTLY TIMELESS.......2006-03-06

With "On Photography" we are introduced to a broader range of interests than the recent and equally outstanding "Oi Me Lasso". Still, Bryars seems lately to be charged with making aspects of early and sacred music into something better-tuned to the contemporary ear. While the forms may be familiar, few composers are able to strike such a distinctive tonality. Turning as he often does to unusual texts for inspiration, Bryars here offers a fascinating piece drawn from the writing of Thomas de Quincy on the death of Kant. But the title piece may be the most interesting. In addition to being the first performance of his first piece for choir, "On Photography" features Bryars performing on harmonium and imparting a melancholic, slowly breathing sense of life to the title work.

The performances are as meticulous as the compositions, imbued with great detail and a pronounced tendency to avoid more typical turns and familiar cadences. Production and final mix reveal a detailed soundstage with concise placement, left to right as well as front to back. There are equally compelling pieces by Maskats and Silvestrov -- whose 2004 ECM release, "Silent Songs" deserves your attention as well. Each composer here provides an excellent complement to Bryars' compositions.

There are several seemingly more popular artists at work on similar ground today. From the perspective of performance, Trio Medieval (again, check into "Oi Me Lasso") and even at times Anonymous 4 come to mind. Among composers, you may find Bryars associated with Arvo Part or John Tavener, or the many works of past and contemporary composers performed by the Hilliard Ensemble. Yet Bryars demonstrates a well-developed sense of and feel for modernity that the others often and deliberately set aside. And he does this without cutting himself or the listener completely off from past traditions. Consequently, his work is immediately recognizable, while never becoming as outwardly ornamental, abstract or as overtly sentimental as that of many others. Importantly, the subjects which he chooses are not strictly scared, as likely coming from this world than exclusively from "the next" -- "Sinking of the Titanic"; and "A man in a room, gambling" are only two more demonstrations of his ability to take moments from every day life and set such egalitarian experiences to such remarkable music. Which is why Bryars' work is proving to be some of the most consistently interesting and unique in the contemporary catalog, in touch with making the routine anything but, and more capable of becoming and remaining intimately connected to our world and our lives.

"On Photography" is still another example. Here, the work results from a singular aesthetic sensibility that has been refined and distilled to create music of complexity, restraint, purposeful beauty and intellect that places it among the most rewarding of the late 20th or extremely early 21st century I've heard.

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Comment faire la cuisine de la volaille
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Pop's Cycle (Electric Ste): I. Potpourri
Pop's Cycle (Electric Ste): II. Song Of Light
Pop's Cycle (Electric Ste): III. Ripsnorter Finale
Andante From Sagittarius
The South Drowns (By Gavin Bryars)
Rondo In Stride
Eclogue
The Swan Sees His Reflection
Eight Duets For Young Celleists: I. Pitter Patter, Mouse In Batter
Eight Duets For Young Celleists: II. You And Me
Eight Duets For Young Celleists: III. The Mystery Of A Cave
Eight Duets For Young Celleists: IV.The Funny Bone
Eight Duets For Young Celleists: V. Two Giraffes
Eight Duets For Young Celleists: VI. The Sad Clown With A Happy Face
Eight Duets For Young Celleists: VII. Ambling Along
Eight Duets For Young Celleists: VIII. Hop, Step, Skip
Spiegel Im Spiegel (By Arvo Part)

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Stick with the vocal music

Vita Nova

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Sub Rosa - Gavin Bryars Ens

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Gavin Bryars writes for specific instrumentalists and singers rather than for performers in general--a powerful motivating force that--as Handel, Mozart, Britten, and others, including Bryars, have shown--often inspires great music. Bryars is a mature, thoughtful composer whose versatility--he writes for several different instrumental and vocal combinations here--never inhibits his originality. And his originality never comes at the expense of accessibility. The music is tonal yet unpredictable, intelligent yet unpretentious. "Incipit Vita Nova," for male alto and string trio, is a response to the birth of a friend's child. Its simple beauty and sensitive instrumental scoring sets the tone for the entire album. "Glorious Hill," commissioned by the Hilliard Ensemble, is a triumph of text, texture, timbre, and of the unique expressive power of the human voice. There are many rewards on this album, from the stirring, sometimes disturbing, always enticing music, to the all-around, top-of-form performances. --David Vernier

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Stick with the vocal music.......1999-07-13

The two vocal works, "Incipit Vita Nova" and "Glorious Hill", are captivating and beautiful, and I give them 5 stars. However, the two "jazz"-oriented instrumentals, "Four Elements" and "Sub Rosa", drone on excruciatingly (and I'm a Morton Feldman fan, not in principle opposed to slowly evolving patterns).

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