Gavin Bryars - New York (complete percussion ensemble works)
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Label: GB Records
Cat No: BCGBCD17
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 20th September 2010
Contents
Artists
Les Percussions Claviers de LyonL’Ensemble de Basse-normandie
Conductor
Dominique DebartWorks
At Portage and MainNew York
One Last Bar, Then Joe Can Sing
Artists
Les Percussions Claviers de LyonL’Ensemble de Basse-normandie
Conductor
Dominique DebartAbout
From the mid-1970s onwards he has maintained a passionate commitment to this instrumental formation and his first opera Medea (1984) included a quintet of tuned percussion in the orchestra, replacing the more conventional violins. The five percussionists in Medea became Les Percussions Claviers de Lyon and Gavin Bryars still has a close relation with the group.
This recording includes One Last Bar Then Joe Can Sing, the piece that Bryars wrote for the great Canadian group Nexus - a work that has entered the percussion repertoire worldwide. The other pieces were commissioned for Les Percussions Claviers de Lyon and exploit the wide range of colours and textures that this unique combination of instruments affords - two vibraphones, two marimbas, bass marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel and assorted cymbals, tom-toms and other drums. At Portage and Main is the most recent piece, premiered in 2009, and the title work, New York (2004), is a concerto for tuned percussion quintet in which the group is joined by the French chamber orchestra L'Ensemble de Basse-Normandie.
It is repertoire that is programmed regularly for live performance by Les Percussions Claviers de Lyon as a major part of their repertoire in France and elsewhere in Europe, as well as world tours including China and North America. UK performances are under discussion.
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