New York
For Gavin Bryars the family of keyboard percussion is as important as the string family. A greatpercussion ensemble, like the group from Lyon recorded here, is as musically subtle and expressiveas a well-seasoned string quartet. This recording includes One Last Bar Then Joe Can Sing, the piece that Bryars wrote for the great Canadian group Nexus and a work that has entered thepercussion repertoire worldwide. The other pieces, commissioned for Les Percussions Claviers deLyon, exploit the wide range of colors and textures that this unique combination of instrumentsaffords two vibraphones, two marimbas, bass marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, and assortedcymbals, tom-toms, and other drums. At Portage and Main is the most recent work, premiered in2009, and New York (2004) is a concerto for tuned percussion quintet in which the PercussionsClaviers de Lyon is joined by the French chamber orchestra L Ensemble de Basse-Normandie.
Gavin Bryars   Format: Audio CD
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