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Gavin Bryars (*1943) - a portrait

CD1 (total time 71:10)
01. Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971) (29:15)
Ives Ensemble
Paradiso, Amsterdam, April 15, 2003

02. Bryars talks about "Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet" and "The Solway Canal" (12:59)
03. Piano Concerto ("The Solway Canal") (2009) (world premiere) (28:54)
Radio Kamer Filharmonie - Otto Tausk
Capella Amsterdam
Ralph van Raat - piano
Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht, February 19, 2010

"Ralph van Raat approached me about the possibility of my writing a concerto for him some time ago. I enjoyed talking with him and, above all, I liked very much his playing and his approach to music in general, and repertoire in particular. He is very much aware of the nature of my work and we did not feel it necessary to "consult" during the composition process but rather to speak in detail once the piece had been composed to discuss ideas and to make decisions. This continued right up to the performance.
Although the overall feeling of my piece does not convey any sense of urgency, and perhaps the overall tempo is slow, there is constant movement within the piece and Ralph was away of this tendency within my work when he approached me - and it is something that he relishes. Of course all pianists are capable of playing at fast tempi and with agility, but virtuosity also refers to musicality and I have always found it interesting to hear great players play (apparently) easy music (though this concerto is not "easy" in either sense).
The presence of a male chorus within the concerto represents a kind of homage to Busoni, a composer whom I have always admired and whose piano concerto has one in the last movement. As it happens I used a chorus of Russian bass voices in my recent double bass concerto so there is precedence within my own work too. Of course if there are voices then there are words and my choice of the poetry of the great Scottish poet Edwin Morgan alludes to my work with male choirs - I have set six of his "Sonnets from Scotland" already, three of them for the Estonian National Male Choir. The two sonnets The Solway Canal and A Place of Many Waters are heard in their entirety in the piece, and the first gives a subtitle to the concerto, just as Kukol'nik's "Farewell to St Petersburg" gives a subtitle to the double bass concerto."
http://www.gavinbryars.com/work/p

CD2 (total time 53:17)
01. The North Shore, for viola & orchestra (1995) (14:24)
Radio Kamer Filharmonie - Thierry Fischer
Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, Amsterdam, March 27, 2009 *RESEED*

02. One Last Bar, Then Joe Can Sing (1994) (18:16)
Wieland Junge, Norbert Schmitt-Lauxmann, Franz Bach, Martin Rosenthal, Robert Kette - percussion (Members of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart
Neues Schloss, Stuttgart, April 2, 2006 (remastered) *RESEED* (+3dB volume boost)

03. Oi me Lasso (Lauda nr. 4) (2002) (4:51)
04. Lauda Novella (Lauda nr. 1) (2002) (3:20)
05. The North Shore, for viola & orchestra (1995) (12:24)
Anna Maria Friman - soprano (03, 04)
Gavin Bryars Ensemble:
Bill Hawkes - viola
Morgan Goff - viola
Nick Cooper - cello
James Woodrow - electric guitar
Roger Heaton - clarinet, bassclarinet
Dave Smith - keyboards
Gavin Bryars - double bass
Arena New Music Festival, Riga (Latvia), October 18, 2003

all titles are from various FM broadcasts, except CD1, tracks 02-03 and CD2, track 01, which are from 192kbps webcasts

 

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