Gavin Bryars

About the artist

Richard Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in (or has produced works in) many varied styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism experimental music, avant-garde, neoclassicism, and ambient. Born in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Bryars initially studied philosophy at Sheffield University before studying music for three years. The first musical work for which is he remembered was his role as bassist in the trio Joseph Holbrooke

Top songs

Raising the Titanic (Big Drum mix)
The Sinking of the Titanic
The Vespertine Park
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
My First Homage
Tramp and Tom Waits with Full Orchestra
The Sinking of the Titanic: 10. Last Hymn
Tramp with Orchestra IV (full strings)
Coda: Tom Waits with High Strings
Tramp with Orchestra I (string quartet)

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Tramp with Orchestra III (no strings)
'The Vespertine Park'
Opening Part I
Hymn II
Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings
Tramp with Orchestra II (low strings)
Hymn IV (Aughton)
Tre Laude Dolce: I
Raising The Titanic [Big Drum Mix]
Last Hymn
Double Bass Concerto "Farewell to St. Petersburg"
Interlude
Hymn III
Coda
Opening Part II
Titanic Lament
The Sinking of the Titanic: 2. Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All strings
Woodblocks
Raising The Titanic
The English Mail-Coach
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: 1. Tramp with Orchestra (string quartet)
The Sinking of the Titanic: 1. Opening Part I
The Sinking of the Titanic: 3. Hymn II
Super flumina: Super flumina
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: 5. Tramp and Tom Waits with full Orchestra
The Sinking of the Titanic: 11. Coda
Prologue
One Last Bar Then Joe Can sing: (Bar 238) freely
The Sinking of the Titanic: 4. Interlude
String Quartet No.2 (1990)
Sketch for Sub Rosa
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: 6. Coda: Tom Waits with High Strings
White's SS
The Sinking of the Titanic: 5. Hymn III
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: 3. Tramp with Orchestra (no strings)
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: 2. Tramp with Orchestra (low strings)
The Archangel Trip
A Little Drop Of Poison
The Sinking of the Titanic: 6. Hymn IV
The Sinking of the Titanic: 7. Opening Part II
Lauda 3
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: 4. Tramp with Orchestra (full strings)
Hi Tremolo
Super Flumina
The Sinking of the Titanic: 8. Titanic Lament
Cello Concerto (Farewell to Philosophy): (Bar 426) ("Farewell") a tempo
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Minature)Y
The Sinking of the Titanic: 9. Woodblocks
Jesus blood never failed me yet
Ramble on Cortona
Incipit Vita Nova
White's S.S.
Out Of Zaleski's Gazebo
A Worcester Ladymass: Benedicamus Domino
Danse Dieppoise
The Last Days (for 2 violins): 1. The Venetian Beginning
Hi-Tremolo
The Other Side of the River
After the Requiem
Sub Rosa
Poor Edward
Alice
The North Shore
Allegrasco
Alaric I or II
Gypsy Tango
Ah, Belinda
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet - Single
Cello Concerto (Farewell to Philosophy): (Bar 1)
Glorious Hill
1 Piste
Part I
The Fifth Century: Eternity magnifies our joys exceedingly
The Fifth Century: We see the heavens with our eyes
Les Fiançailles
With Miriam by the River
Cantai, or piango (Petrarca rime sparse No. 229)
Whistle Down The Wind
Ballad Of Sexual Dependency
Johnsburg Illinois
Four Elements
Innocent When You Dream
A Little Rain
1, 2, 1-2-3-4
The Fifth Century: Infinity Of Space Is Like A Painter's Table
The Fifth Century: As sure as there is a space infinite
Programme One ("Bottom Dealing")
By the Vaar
The Fifth Century: Eternity is a mysterious absence of times and ages
The Old Tower of Lobenicht

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