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Gavin Bryars

April 2024

  • Golda Schultz pointing to a small bust of Mozart, as if saying to him that he drives her crazy

    Home listening
    Classical home listening: Golda Schultz’s Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!; Kozłowski’s Requiem and more

    The soprano gets to the heart of ‘absolute gifts’ Susanna, Donna Elvira, the Contessa and co. In Singapore, the revival of an 18th-century gem

January 2024

  • Jazz musician Tony Oxley, circa 1980

    Letter: Tony Oxley the experimenter

    Gavin Bryars writes: The periods when I gave performances with my friend Tony Oxley were separated by 32 years

March 2022

  • Gavin Bryars.

    ‘I still get a tingle’: Gavin Bryars on why his most famous work has never failed him yet

    Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, with its hypnotic loop of a homeless man singing, has moved audiences for 50 years – and Bryars is still updating it today

June 2018

  • Gavin Bryars ’ haunting, ethereal Jesus Blood, the UK composer leading a festival ensemble — including young musicians from Music Generation Louth. Book of Hours festival / Louth contemporary music

    Book of Hours review – tender minimalism to restless bravura

    The highlight of Louth Contemporary Music Society’s varied programme was Gavin Bryars’ Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, which brought a tear to the eye
  • A Lambeth church in 1975 … Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet grew from a recording of a homeless man in London

    Anthem for the homeless: mystery at the heart of a contemporary classic

    A 26-second recording of a nameless rough sleeper began composer Gavin Bryars’ musical quest for the heart of humanity
  • The Vase in the Container by Kris Lock & Josephine Sweeney

    Whitstable Biennale review – art with a fish-and-chips flavour

    The coastal town plays host to a biennale with a brain, where dreams take over and home is a place that may not exist

March 2017

  • Conductor Micaela Haslam

    LPO/Haslam review – faith, hope and pure minimalism

    The London Philharmonic and Synergy Vocals made a strong, evocative impression with works by Steve Reich and Gavin Bryars

January 2017

  • BBC NOW conductor Clark Rundell

    BBCNOW/Rundell review – Great Brits go for the feelgood factor

    The BBC National Orchestra of Wales put the emphasis on happiness and groove – rounded off by a lullaby – in the first of its series celebrating rebellious composers, including Sawer, Nyman and Bryars

December 2016

  • the Yorkshire composer Gavin Bryars.

    Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century CD review – scrunchy harmonies and weaving saxes

June 2016

  • Where sky and Yorkshire meet … the view from the train on the way from Goole to Hull.

    This is the 1.17 to nirvana: how a Yorkshire commute became a work of art

    Bouquets beneath the Humber bridge, the mayor of Gibraltar in his trunks, windfarms and mudflats … the train ride from Goole to Hull has become a symphony of stories

October 2015

  • Catherine Shoard

    Notebook
    Elevated by the heavenly power of the loop

    Catherine Shoard
    From Gavin Bryars to KRS-One, the elation of incantation has proved a knockout revelation

June 2014

  • Gavin Bryars

    Bryars: The War in Heaven, Epilogue from G review – a work of cumulative intensity

    Though large-scale contemporary choral pieces are never the easiest works to programme, it's hard to see why Bryars' has been neglected, writes Andrew Clements

January 2013

  • US singer Suzanne Vega performs at a Sydney Theatre, 30 January 2008

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about blood – results

    There will be blood – or at least a fine spattering of it this week, as RR regular Mnemonic gives her pick from last week's topic – the best songs about blood

April 2012

  • The Sinking of the Titanic – review

    Gavin Bryars returns to his classic alongside an experimental turntablist and some specially commissioned visuals, writes Andrew Clements

October 2010

  • Bryars: At Portage and Main; One Last Bar Then Joe Can Sing; New York – review

    Two of these works for percussion ensemble, composed by Gavin Bryars, are delicately coloured, writes Andrew Clements, but the third is more ambitious and less interesting

February 2010

  • The Solway Canal

    Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
    For the most part, the choral setting of Gavin Bryars's new piano concerto, The Solway Canal, remains in the ­background while the piano and orchestra churn away over it, writes Andrew Clements

October 2009

  • Gavin Bryars Ensemble

    Union Chapel, London
    Bryars's performance of his 1971 classic piece based around the recording of a homeless man singing a hymn was a fitting, and uplifting, choice for this charity concert, writes John Lewis

July 2009

  • Nothing Like the Sun

    Classical review
    Purcell Room, London     Gavin Bryars's Shakespeare sonnet cycle recieves some additions, but with mixed results, writes John L Walters

May 2008

  • Gavin Bryars Ensemble

    St George's, Bristol

February 2008

  • When two into one doesn't quite go

    A combination of Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake looked good - but wasn't, says Luke Jennings

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