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Gavin Bryars - I Have Heard It Said That a Spirit Enters | GB Records BCGBCD12

Gavin Bryars - I Have Heard It Said That a Spirit Enters

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Label: GB Records

Cat No: BCGBCD12

Barcode: 5060154170849

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 5th April 2010

Contents

Artists

Holly Cole (voice)
Gwen Hoebig (violin)
Gavin Bryars (double bass)
CBC Radio Orchestra

Conductor

Owen Underhill

Works

Bryars, Gavin

By the Vaar
Canadian Songs (3)
The Porazzi Fragment
Violin Concerto 'The Bulls of Bashan'

Artists

Holly Cole (voice)
Gwen Hoebig (violin)
Gavin Bryars (double bass)
CBC Radio Orchestra

Conductor

Owen Underhill

About

'I have heard it said that a spirit enters' is the first recording of orchestral music by Gavin Bryars on his own label. It includes two pieces for string orchestra (his Violin Concerto and The Porazzi Fragment) in their premiere recordings, supervised by the composer, and jazz-related works for chamber orchestra and soloists – jazz vocalist Holly Cole, and Gavin Bryars himself in a rare appearance as a jazz bassist.

Gavin Bryars lives part of the year on the west coast of Canada and has strong links with many areas of Canadian music and culture. This recording features his work with the CBC Radio Orchestra, the last radio orchestra in North America, which has since been disbanded. The whole of this programme was given as the last night of the 2002 Vancouver International Jazz Festival featuring, as it does, his songs for the Canadian jazz singer Holly Cole, and with Bryars himself playing the piece for double-bass and orchestra, By the Vaar, that he wrote for Charlie Haden.

The album was originally released on CBC Records in 2002 but was deleted during the financial cuts at CBC. It has been substantially re-mastered and redesigned for GB Records.

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