The Crossing, Donald Nally, Prism Quartet - Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century (2016)
Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century (2016)
The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally; Prism Quartet
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 172 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 118 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Contemporary | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 2405, 481 4495 | Time: 00:50:12
The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally; Prism Quartet
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 172 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 118 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Contemporary | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 2405, 481 4495 | Time: 00:50:12
The music of English composer Gavin Bryars has long managed the distinction of being both - accessible and defiantly personal - (The New York Times).
A deep yet unsentimental emotional resonance and a patient, contemplative view of time whether relating to harmonic rhythm or human experience are complementary characteristics that run through his instrumental, vocal and theatrical catalog like a red thread, the composer inspired by disparate spirits from Wagner and Satie to Cage and Silvestrov.
The ECM New Series released multiple recordings of Bryars music in the 1980s and early 90s, including the classic albums After the Requiem and Vita Nova.
The first full ECM album from Bryars in decades is The Fifth Century, which includes the seven-part title work: a slowly evolving yet immediately involving setting of words by 17th-century English mystic Thomas Traherne, performed by the mixed choir of The Crossing with saxophone quartet PRISM. The album also features Two Love Songs, luminous a cappella settings of Petrarch for the women of The Crossing.
The music within words, the humanity in breath, the sense of eternity within a moment or of a moment in eternity all are at play in Bryars latest music on ECM.
Gavin Bryars has written a good deal of music in minimalist styles, but he makes room for a good deal of expressivity. He has not written much choral music, but this ECM release may make his fans wish he had written more. He emerges here as a kind of British counterpart to Arvo Pärt, with similarly spiritual and mystical leanings. The title The Fifth Century refers to the texts used in the seven-section work, which come from a series of prose poems entitled Centuries of Meditations by the 17th century English mystical poet Thomas Traherne; the texts here are drawn from the fifth volume. Many of the texts suggest a contemplation of eternity, and they're quite compelling ("Like the sun we dart our rays before us, and occupy those spaces with light and contemplation which we move towards, but possess not with our bodies"). Around the peaceful, a cappella settings of these words a saxophone quartet winds counterpoint and preludes. The work was commissioned by the small choir heard here, called The Crossing, and it would be hard to imagine a more sympathetic performance. Those new to Bryars could start with the Italian-language Two Love Songs, for a three-part female choir (or solo singers), which presents the spare, yet deeply emotional quality of Bryars' music in compact form. As usual with ECM, the sound engineers are among the stars of the show; their work on The Fifth Century, at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, is especially enchanting.Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com
The Crossing, Donald Nally, Prism Quartet - Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century (2016)
The Crossing (Choir)
Donald Nally (Conductor)
PRISM Quartet (tracks: 1 to 7)
The Fifth Century was recorded July 2014
at Gould Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia
Two Love Songs was recorded June 2015
at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia
Tracklist:
The Fifth Century (2014)
for choir and saxophone quartet
Dedicated to The Crossing
In memoriam Jeff Dinsmore
01. I. We see the heavens with our eyes (9:48)
02. II. As sure as there is a space infinite (5:37)
03. III. Infinity of space is like a painter's table (3:54)
04. IV. Eternity is a mysterious absence of times and ages (6:43)
05. V. Eternity magnifies our joys exceedingly (3:18)
06. VI. His omnipresence is our field of joys (5:51)
07. VII. Our bridegroom and our king being everywhere (7:14)
Two Love Songs (2010)
for female choir a cappella
08. I. Io amai sempre (4:00)
09. II. Solo et pensoso (3:47)
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The Crossing, Donald Nally, Prism Quartet - Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century (2016)
