https://youtu.be/2oVMRADOq5s
https://youtu.be/FmkC_leNM7M

Powyżej okładka wersji winylowej

A The Sinking Of The Titanic 24:28
Conductor, Piano – Gavin Bryars
Directed By [Director] – Howard Davidson, Howard Rees
Double Bass – Sandra Hill
Musical Box [Music Box] – Angela Bryars
Strings – The Cockpit Ensemble
Violin – John Nash
Voice [Spoken Voice] – Miss Eva Hart

B Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet 25:52
Conductor – Gavin Bryars
Directed By [Director] – Howard Davidson, Howard Rees
Double Bass – Sandra Hill
Guitar – Derek Bailey
Organ – Michael Nyman
Strings – The Cockpit Ensemble
Tuba – John White
Violin – John Nash


Gavin Bryars was born in Yorkshire, England in 1943. His first musical forays were as a jazz bassist working in the early 1960s with improvisors Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley. Bryars later worked with composers John Cage and Cornelius Cardew, founded the Portsmouth Sinfonia and collaborated with Brian Eno on his famed Obscure imprint.

»The Sinking of the Titanic«, Bryars' first major composition, was inspired by the tragic event of the British passenger liner's cross-Atlantic maiden voyage. Bryars eloquently reconstructs the passengers' experience – at once forlorn and eerily calming – through assemblages of understated strings and indeterminate elements. A core principle of the piece is that the ship's band continued to play as the vessel went down. One of the most sublime works in the modern classical canon, Titanic remains Bryars' magnum opus.

»Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet«, the album's second sidelong track, is based on a tape loop of a London street singer captured in the early 1970s. Featuring Derek Bailey, Michael Nyman and John White, Bryars' composition gradually builds around the cripplingly poignant voice until its emotional force is almo.......
more