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The Crossing, Donald Nally, Prism Quartet - Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century (2016)

The Crossing, Donald Nally, Prism Quartet - Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century (2016)
  • Title: The Fifth Century
  • Year Of Release: 2016
  • Label: ECM New Series
  • Genre: Classical, Avant-Garde
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 50:11 mins
  • Total Size: 170 MB
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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.

Tracks:
01. Gavin Bryars - The Fifth Century: I. We See The Heavens With Our Eyes (9:48)
02. Gavin Bryars - The Fifth Century: II. As Sure As There Is A Space Infinite (5:37)
03. Gavin Bryars - The Fifth Century: III. Infinity Of Space Is Like A Painter's Table (3:54)
04. Gavin Bryars - The Fifth Century: IV. Eternity Is A Mysterious Absence Of Times And Ages (6:43)
05. Gavin Bryars - The Fifth Century: V. Eternity Magnifies Our Joys Exceedingly (3:18)
06. Gavin Bryars - The Fifth Century: VI. His Omnipresence Is Our Field Of Joys (5:51)
07. Gavin Bryars - The Fifth Century: VII. Our Bridegroom And Our King Being Everywhere (7:14)
08. Gavin Bryars - Two Love Songs: I. Io Amai Sempre (4:00)
09. Gavin Bryars - Two Love Songs: II. Solo Et Pensoso (3:47)

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