Gavin Bryars, CBC Radio Orchestra & Holly Cole
Release Date: 05 April 2010
Label: GB Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060154170849
Genres: Classical
Description
'I have heard it said that a spirit enters' is the first recording of orchestral music by Gavin Bryars on his own label. It includes two pieces for string orchestra (his Violin Concerto and The Porazzi Fragment) given their premiere recordings, supervised by the composer, and jazz-related works for chamber orchestra and soloists - jazz vocalist Holly Cole, and Gavin Bryars himself in a rare appearance as a jazz bassist.
Gavin Bryars lives part of the year on the west coast of Canada and has strong links with many areas of Canadian music and culture. He has collaborated extensively with the Montreal-based dance company La La La Human Steps (on the album 'Amjad'). He is working on a chamber opera with the Victoria ensemble/producers Aventa, and has done many projects with CBC Radio.
This recording features his work with the CBC Radio Orchestra, the last radio orchestra in North America, which has since been disbanded. The whole of this programme was given as the last night of the 2002 Vancouver International Jazz Festival featuring, as it does, his songs for the Canadian jazz singer Holly Cole, and with Bryars himself playing the piece for double-bass and orchestra, "By the Vaar", that he wrote for Charlie Haden. The other two pieces are works for string orchestra, written during his summer months in Canada.
The album was originally released on CBC Records in 2002 but was deleted during the financial cuts at CBC. It has been substantially re-mastered and redesigned for GB Records.
Personnel: CBC Radio Orchestra, Owen Underhill (conductor), Holly Cole (voice), Gwen Hoebig (violin), Gavin Bryars (double-bass)
Tracklisting
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars & Juan Munoz
Gavin Bryars Ensemble
Latvian Radio Choir
Gavin Bryars, John Berger & John Christie
Gavin Bryars & Christopher Hobbs
Gavin Bryars Ensemble
Soloists; Les Traversees Baroques; Meyer
Richard Casey, Annabelle Lawson, Joanna Lam, Peter Lawson, Stephen Plews, Jean Hasse, David Owen Norris, John McCabe, Aleksander Szram
Duncan Honeybourne, Helen Cawthorne
Maria Callas
Mayke Rademakers
Katharina Konradi, Catriona Morison, Ammiel Bushakevitz
Lisa Illean, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, GBSR Duo, Juliet Fraser, Explore Ensemble
Narratio Quartet
