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.

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