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Gavin Bryars
Bryars: The Sinking Of The Titanic / Barnett, Bryars Ensemble, et al
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Classical

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. The Sinking Of The Titanic: Opening Part I
2. The Sinking Of The Titanic: Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings
3. The Sinking Of The Titanic: Hymn II
4. The Sinking Of The Titanic: Interlude
5. The Sinking Of The Titanic: Hymn III
6. The Sinking Of The Titanic: Hymn IV (Aughton)
7. The Sinking Of The Titanic: Opening Part II
8. The Sinking Of The Titanic: Titanic Lament
9. The Sinking Of The Titanic: Woodblocks
10. The Sinking Of The Titanic: Last Hymn
11. The Sinking Of The Titanic: Coda

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All Artists: Gavin Bryars
Title: Bryars: The Sinking Of The Titanic / Barnett, Bryars Ensemble, et al
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Philips
Release Date: 2/14/1995
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Classical
Styles: Techno, Experimental Music
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 028944606126

Synopsis

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Bryars's The Sinking of the Titanic is one of the oddest and at the same time most mesmerizing works to come out of this end of the century. It began in 1972 as an abstract art piece that kept on building and changing in the composer's mind. It's a ghostly tapestry of eerie echoes, distant sounds almost like whale songs, and interjected rifts representing the band that was playing even as the boat sank. This is a masterpiece that rewards repeated listenings. --Paul Cook

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Member CD Reviews

Walter W. from SAINT PETERS, PA
Reviewed on 7/8/2008...

A really extraordinary piece of music. If it is not to your taste you won't get it. If it is you will treasure it. Very, very slow unless you can visualize the geography that the music describes. Then it moves at the perfectly natural pace for an object of enormous size. Very moving, sorrowful and enjoyable. More in tune with the source of life than merely human.

CD Reviews

Meditative

Douglas T Martin | Alpharetta, GA USA | 02/05/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I wonder how many people bought this recording thinking it had something to do with the "Titanic" movie? And if so, how many kept the recording? Their loss. This is a great work, well performed and recorded. Repetitious without being monotonous, it's the aural equivalent of watching light move across the water as seen from beneath the surface. Recommended to fans of Eno, Philip Glass, and their contemporaries."

Beautiful

A. Laye | Maryland | 07/26/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It isnt mentioned in any other reviews or in the product description that this version includes Philip Jeck and Alter Ego. Most viewers already know that the piece of music has been performed with many different ensembles and ranges from 15 minutes to 80 minutes in length. This recording, however, is my favorite. Philip Jecks turntablisms are more for sound construction than for "DJing" in the traditional sense of the term. Alter Ego consists of strings, brass, winds, percussion, keyboard, tape recorder and sound design. This ensembles interpretation of this peice of music is truly breathtaking and beautiful - adjectives I do not use lightly. Besides the georgious instrumentation, I much prefer the production of this record over the 1995 version. I will refrain from falling into the trap of making comparrisons or saying "fans of [x] will enjoy this", but for my personal tastes, this one one of the best pieces of music I have ever heard. Highly recommended.

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Unobtrusively ambient

Hingehead | Cairnsberra, Australia | 12/04/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Like Phil Glass this piece relies on repeating relatively simple patterns in layers that slowly change the overall colour of the sound without any obvious melodic or key changes. Unlike Phil Glass rhythm has virtually no place in this piece. It moves like a light mist over the valley of your listening ear.

Predominantly strings, pensive but not unhappy in mood, it would be a fitting to have it playing in the submersible's cd player while you scouted around the wreck of the Titanic when it was on the bottom of the ocean, wondering about the what-ifs of the lives lost, who last drank out of that coral encrusted champagne glass, who's pocket that coin fell from...

Also good to go to sleep to if, like me, you love to drift off to music."

Music For Sinking Ships

Jay Murphy | Landover Hills, Maryland United States | 04/02/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

""The Sinking of The Titanic" is a beautifully subtle, evocative, and haunting work. Though composed before ambient music became its own genre, I would defintely describe it as such. Gavin Bryars utilizes strings, minimalist vocals and 'found sounds' to paint this mournful yet hopeful soundscape that seems to float. If you're looking for great ambient/contemporary classical music without any annoying bombastic percussion mucking things up, you'll love this gorgeous work."

Which of three versions is this?

JMHO | South Jersey Shore | 08/06/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"An all music website reports that "The Sinking of the Titanic" had been recorded three times. The first, for Brian Eno's Obscure label, was a landmark recording, but went swiftly out of print and became a much sought after collector's item, while the third, a relatively bland performance on Point, was widely distributed in the late '90s. In between, on the independent Belgian label Les Disques du Crepuscule, Bryars recorded what is possibly the definitive version though again, it is a difficult disc to locate. Who has this can tell us which version this one is? Thanks."