Album description
1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm.CBC Records: SMCD 5223.
For vocalist and orchestra (1st-3rd works); for violin and orchestra (4th work); for 21 solo strings (5th work); for double bass with bass clarinet, strings, and percussion (6th work).
Holly Cole, vocalist (1st-3rd works) ; Gwen Hoebig, violin (4th work) ; Gavin Bryars, double bass (6th work) ; CBC Radio Orchestra ; Owen Underhill, conductor.
Recorded at the Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, July 2-3, 2002.
Program notes in English and French ([22] pages), inserted.
Sung in English.
Contents: I have heard it said that a spirit enters (4:26) -- Planet earth (10:43) -- The apple (4:18) -- Violin concerto : The bulls of Bashan (20:39) -- The Porazzi fragment (13:24) -- By the Vaar (19:36).
I. Bryars, Gavin. By the Vaar.
Performers
1. | Bryars, Gavin, 1943- |
2. | CBC Symphony Orchestra |
3. | Underhill, Owen, 1954- |
Uniform Titles
1. | By the Vaar |