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Gavin Bryars' first recording for a widely distributed label found him midway between the more experimental works from his early career, recorded for Obscure and Les Disques du Crepuscule, and the later, more somberly romantic compositions of the '90s. The recording, oddly, begins and ends with exactly the same piece (despite their differing titles), a short, evocative composition for percussion and French horn, but it does provide an attractive set of bookends for the major piece here. The first is his "String Quartet No. 1," given a strong, precise, and impassioned reading by the Arditti Quartet. Bryars manages to achieve a subtle balance between the ghostly voicings of high-register strings and the subtle, underlying melancholy of the work. The "First Viennese Dance," a duo for French horn and percussion, seems to exist in some timeless, slightly northern clime, as one can imagine the horn's cries wafting over a meadow of chimes, gongs, bells, and bowed cymbals. Here, unlike in some later works, Bryars is able to be at once mysterious yet crystal clear, sad but serene. Three Viennese Dancers is one of the last albums of his that one can recommend unequivocally.
© Brian Olewnick /TiVo
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Prologue (1986) (Gavin Bryars)
Manfred Eicher, Producer - Pascal Pongy, French Horn, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Gavin Bryars, Composer, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Fullbrook, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Wieland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1986 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
String Quartet No. 1 'Between The National And The Bristol' (1985) (Gavin Bryars)
Levine Andrade, Viola, AssociatedPerformer - Alexander Balanescu, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Gavin Bryars, Composer - Rohan De Saram, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Irvine Arditti, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Arditti Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Martin Wieland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1986 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
First Viennese Dance (1985-86) (Gavin Bryars)
Manfred Eicher, Producer - Pascal Pongy, French Horn, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Gavin Bryars, Composer - Charles Fullbrook, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Wieland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1986 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Epilogue (1986) (Gavin Bryars)
Manfred Eicher, Producer - Pascal Pongy, French Horn, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Gavin Bryars, Composer, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Fullbrook, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Wieland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1986 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Album review
Gavin Bryars' first recording for a widely distributed label found him midway between the more experimental works from his early career, recorded for Obscure and Les Disques du Crepuscule, and the later, more somberly romantic compositions of the '90s. The recording, oddly, begins and ends with exactly the same piece (despite their differing titles), a short, evocative composition for percussion and French horn, but it does provide an attractive set of bookends for the major piece here. The first is his "String Quartet No. 1," given a strong, precise, and impassioned reading by the Arditti Quartet. Bryars manages to achieve a subtle balance between the ghostly voicings of high-register strings and the subtle, underlying melancholy of the work. The "First Viennese Dance," a duo for French horn and percussion, seems to exist in some timeless, slightly northern clime, as one can imagine the horn's cries wafting over a meadow of chimes, gongs, bells, and bowed cymbals. Here, unlike in some later works, Bryars is able to be at once mysterious yet crystal clear, sad but serene. Three Viennese Dancers is one of the last albums of his that one can recommend unequivocally.
© Brian Olewnick /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 4 track(s)
- Total length: 00:48:02
- Main artists: Gavin Bryars Arditti String Quartet Pascal Pongy Charles Fullbrook
- Composer: Gavin Bryars
- Label: ECM New Series
- Genre: Classical
© 1986 ECM Records GmbH ℗ 1986 ECM Records GmbH
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