Cat No:
BCGBCD24
Release Date: 15 July 2016
Label: GB Records
Packaging Type: Mini-Disc Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5052442008545
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
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Description
Recorded live in Adelaide in 2015, this album consists of Gavin Bryars' settings of Shakespeare sonnets with singers John Potter and Peyee Chen and guest artist Gavin Friday as narrator, accompanied by the Gavin Bryars Ensemble.
'Nothing Like the Sun' began life as a commission from Opera North and the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2007. At the time Bryars had already produced four books of madrigals, chiefly of Petrarch. He says: "Shakespeare's sonnets, like Petrarch's, are full of wonderful technical subtlety and although the form of the Shakespeare sonnet, with its three quatrains and a couplet, is different from Petrarch's, this enabled me to arrive at a shape for the musical setting."
"In selecting the works to set, I preferred to focus on those that are more philosophical, choosing sonnets that contrast the relative permanence of art against the impermanence of human life, that focus on ideas of memory, on the passage of time, and which, when dealing with love, do so in a more abstract way. I narrowed this down to eight sonnets: and each sonnet is set twice - first spoken within a musical accompaniment and then sung. These more abstract sonnets, reflecting as they do on concepts of impermanence and mortality, are inevitably pervaded with melancholy, a quintessentially Elizabethan quality."
It is being released in Shakespeare's 400th anniversary year when there is a great deal of focus on this event.
Personnel: Peyee Chen (soprano), John Potter (tenor), Gavin Friday (speaking voice), Anna Coleman (bass clarinet/clarinet), James Woodrow (electric/acoustic guitar), Rebecca Lagos (percussion), Roland Peelman (piano), Morgan Goff (viola), Imants Larsens (viola), Nick Cooper (cello), Gavin Bryars (double bass)
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Tracklisting
- 1. Prologue
- 2. Sonnet 60A
- 3. Sonnet 60B
- 4. Sonnet 123A
- 5. Sonnet 123B
- 6. Sonnet 128A
- 7. Sonnet 128B
- 8. Sonnet 94A
- 9. Sonnet 94B
- 10. Sonnet 102A
- 11. Sonnet 102B
- 12. Sonnet 146A
- 13. Sonnet 146B
- 14. Sonnet 55A
- 15. Sonnet 55B
- 16. Sonnet 64A
- 17. Sonnet 64B
Disc 1
Side 1
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Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
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The Leeds Bells
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Dido and Orfeo (after Purcell and Gluck)
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I Send You This Cadmium Red
Gavin Bryars, John Berger & John Christie
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Gavin Bryars: A Man in a Room, Gambling
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Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic (Recorded l...
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On Photography - Bryars/Maskats/Silvestrov
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Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
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Through the Night (Conventa del Carmen)
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Lockerbie Memorial Concert
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Gavin Bryars, CBC Radio Orchestra & Holly Cole
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