Gavin Bryars
Richard Gavin Bryars (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked in jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, avant-garde, and experimental music.
Genre: minimalism, avant-garde
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Top Tracks
- Incipit vita nova
- Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Minature)Y
- Glorious Hill
- The Sinking of the Titanic
- A Native Hill: No. 12, At Peace
- A Native Hill: No. 11, Shadow
- A Native Hill: No. 10, Animals and Birds
- A Native Hill: No. 9, The Hill
- A Native Hill: No. 8, Top Soil
- A Native Hill: No. 7, Questions
- A Native Hill: No. 6, The Music of Streams
- A Native Hill: No. 5, The Road
- A Native Hill: No. 4, The Pool
- A Native Hill: No. 3, Sea Level
- A Native Hill: No. 2, The Path
- A Native Hill: No. 1, The Sense of the Past
- Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: 3. Tramp with Orchestra (no strings)
- Pictured Within "Birthday Variations for M.C.B": Var. 11 - Live
- Pictured Within "Birthday Variations for M.C.B": Var. 10, 60 Salutations - Live
- Sub Rosa
Albums (40)
- 11th Floor (After Film Noir) (2024)
- The Leeds Bells (2024)
- Through the Night (2023)
- Dido and Orfeo (after Purcell and Gluck) (2023)
- Refectory Space - Second Improvisation (on Lauda 1) (2023)
- Dido's Lament (2023)
- Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Live) (2023)
- Man In a Room Gambling No. 9 (Live) (2023)
- Extra Time (2023)
- Gavin Bryars: Electric Guitar Works (2022)
- Gavin Bryars: A Native Hill (2021)
- Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic (2020)
- Musique? – Modern and Electro-Acoustic Works for Harpsichord (2020)
- The Stopping Train (2017)
- Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (2016)
- Bryars: I tatti madrigals (Fifth Book of Madrigals) (2016)
- Adelaide Town Hall (2016)
- Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century (2016)
- Bryars: Nothing Like the Sun (2016)
- Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic (Recorded Live on 2012 Centenary Tour) (1970)
- Bryars: Piano Concerto (The Solway Canal) (2011)
- Bryars: New York (1970)
- Bryars: Al suon dell'acque scriva (Madrigals, Vol. 1) (1970)
- Gavin Bryars: Epilogue from Wonderlawn; Eight Irish Madrigals; the Church Closest to the Sea (2009)
- Bryars: Live at Punkt (1970)
- Hommages (2008)
- Silva Caledonia (1970)
- The Marvellous Aphorisms of Gavin Bryars: The Early Years (2007)
- Bryars: Oi me lasso (1970)
- Bryars: A Man in a Room, Gambling (1970)
- Bryars: Lockerbie Memorial Concert (1970)
- Bryars: String Quartets 1, 2 & 3 (2002)
- Mercy and Grand: The Music of Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan (2001)
- Bryars: I Have Heard It Said That A Spirit Enters... (2000)
- Bryars: The Last Days/String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 (1995)
- Vita Nova (1994)
- Gavin Bryars: After the Requiem (1991)
- Bryars: Biped (Music for the Dance by Merce Cunningham) (1990)
- Gavin Bryars: Three Viennese Dancers (1986)
- Bryars, Vasks & Ešenvalds: Glorious Hill (1972)
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