Gavin Bryars - Selected Works

Selected Works

  • The Sinking of the Titanic (1969, First performance: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 1972).
  • Necropolis Soundtrack Film Franco Brocani (1970).
  • Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (for Pre-recorded Tape and ensemble), 1972.
  • Medea (Opera, libretto after Euripides. ) 1982, revised 1984 and 1995.
  • CIVIL WarS (incomplete Opera collaboration with Robert Wilson), 1984 . Some sections of the music exist in completed form, as follows:
    • On Photography for Chorus (SATB), harmonium, piano.
    • 2B for Percussion ensemble.
    • Arias For Marie Curie, The Queen of the Sea, Captain Nemo, The Japanese Bride.
  • String Quartet No 1 Between the National and the Bristol, 1985.
  • Cadman Requiem (Dedicated to Bill Cadman, his sound recordist, who perished in Pan Am 103), 1989.
  • String Quartet No 2, 1990.
  • A Man in a Room, Gambling for speaking voice and string quartet (Text: Juan Muñoz), 1992.
  • The North Shore for viola and piano, 1993.
  • Three Elegies for Nine Clarinets, 1994.
  • Cello Concerto Farewell to Philosophy, 1995.
  • Adnan Songbook, 1996.
  • Doctor Ox's Experiment, opera, 1998.
  • String Quartet no.3, 1998.
  • Biped – music for the dance by Merce Cunningham, 1999.
  • G (Being the Confession and Last Testament of Johannes Gensfleisch, also known as Gutenberg, Master Printer, formerly of Strasbourg and Mainz) Opera, 2002.
  • Nothing like the Sun – 8 Shakespeare sonnets for soprano, tenor, speaking voice, 8 instruments, 2007.
  • Piano Concerto ("The Solway Canal"), 2010.

Read more about this topic:  Gavin Bryars

Famous quotes containing the words selected and/or works:

    “She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and selected a choice apple and delivered it to him, along with an improving lecture upon the added value and flavor a treat took to itself when it came without sin through virtuous effort. And while she closed with a Scriptural flourish, he “hooked” a doughnut.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn’t have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)