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Offer,Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic

Philip Jeck (improvising turntablist), Quartet I: Nick Barr, Morgan Goff (viola), Nick Cooper (cello), Gavin Bryars (double bass), Quartet II: Alexandra Maria Tchernakova (viola), Orlanda Bryars (cello), Ziella Bryars (cello), Yuri Bryars (double bass), Roger Heaton (bass clarinet), Dave Smith (tenor...

Release Date: 21st Apr 2014
Catalogue No: BCGBCD21
Label: GB Records
Length: 74 minutes

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Bryars: Applause

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Gavin Bryars Ensemble, Gavin Bryars

Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic

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Gavin Bryars Ensemble, Gavin Bryars, Philip Jeck, Nick Barr, Orlanda Bryars, Morgan Goff, Alexandra Tchernakova, Ziella Bryars, Nick Cooper, Yuri Bryars

Prologue

Track length10:08

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Crash

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Titanic Hymn I Autumn

Track length4:33

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Titanic Hymn II Autumn

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Titanic Hymn III Autumn

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Hymn IV Aughton "He Leadeth Me"

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Morse

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Hymn V Autumn

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Titanic Lament

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Cadences

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Lament Extract

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Water Gong

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"La Maxixe" Music Box

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Hymn VI, Last Hymn

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This live version of Gavin Bryars’ seminal work The Sinking of the Titanic is regarded by the composer as “the definitive performance”, made with his ideal choice of musicians. It was recorded on the Gavin Bryars Ensemble’s tour in 2012, the centenary year of the disaster.

It brings together in one performance elements that have appeared separately in the various versions that precede it: the inclusion of the improvising turntablist Philip Jeck; the presence of a second quartet of low strings that consists of his four children; the faint allusion to Aphex Twin’s remix The Raising of the Titanic made shortly after the release of the 1994 recording; the water gong first used by percussionist Martin Allen towards the end of a performance on a raft at the shallow end of a renovated Art Nouveau swimming pool in Brussels...

Although there have been four previous recordings of The Sinking of the Titanic (and the original recording on Brian Eno’s Obscure label from 1975 is scheduled for re-release on GB Records), according to the composer this performance and recording is as near to a definitive one as there is ever likely to be.

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