Release Date: 25 November 2016
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948144952
Release Date: 25 November 2016
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948144952
Description
The music of English composer Gavin Bryars has long managed the distinction of being both "accessible and defiantly personal" (The New York Times).
A deep yet unsentimental emotional resonance and a patient, contemplative view of time -- whether relating to harmonic rhythm or human experience -- are complementary characteristics that run through his instrumental, vocal and theatrical catalog like a red thread, the composer inspired by disparate spirits from Wagner and Satie to Cage and Silvestrov. The ECM New Series released multiple recordings of Bryars' music in the 1980s and early '90s, including the classic albums After the Requiem and Vita Nova.
The first full ECM album from Bryars in decades is The Fifth Century, which includes the seven-part title work: a slowly evolving -- yet immediately involving -- setting of words by 17th-century English mystic Thomas Traherne, performed by the mixed choir of The Crossing with saxophone quartet PRISM. The album also features Two Love Songs, luminous a cappella settings of Petrarch for the women of The Crossing.
Personnel: PRISM saxophone quartet, The Crossing, Donald Nally (conductor)
Tracklisting
Vijay Iyer; Wadada Leo Smith
Anouar Brahem; Anja Lechner; Django Bates; Dave Holland
Patrick Demenga; Latvian State Academic Choir; Youth Choir Kamer; Riga Cathedral Boys Choir; Andres
Nicolas Masson; Colin Vallon; Patrice Moret; Lionel Friedli
Various artists
Yuval Cohen Quartet
Thomas Stronen; Craig Taborn; Chris Potter; Sinikka Langeland; Jorge Rossy
Stephan Micus
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars, John Berger & John Christie
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars Ensemble
Gavin Bryars
Anna Maria Friman & John Potter