Album description
1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm.GB Records: BCGBCD11.
All compositions by Gavin Bryars except as noted.
Daniel Nix, double bass (1st, 6th works); Estonian National Male Choir; Pärnu Town Orchestra (1st, 6th works); Kaspars Putninš, conductor.
Recorded at the Methodist Church, Talinn, November, 2007 and February, 2008.
Program notes in English and Estonian and Russian, English, and Latin texts with English and/or Estonian translations ([15] pages : portraits), inserted.
Contents: Double bass concerto “Farewell to St. Petersburg” : solo double bass, bass chorus, chamber orchestra (28:17) -- Memento (2:51) -- Silva Caledonia (5:42) -- O oriens : solo mezzo soprano, choir and wind / Tulev (with Balba Berke, mezzo-soprano) (11:47) -- The summons (6:28) -- Ian in the broch : choir, solo baritone, solo double bass, low strings (with Mareks Lobe, baritone) (9:19).
I. Bryars, Gavin, 1943-. Concertos, double bass, orchestra
II. Bryars, Gavin, 1943-. Ian in the broch
Performers
| 1. | Eesti Rahvusmeeskoor |
| 2. | Lobe, Mareks |
| 3. | Nix, Daniel, 1984- |
| 4. | Pärnu Linnaorkester |
| 5. | Putninš, Kaspars, 1966- |
Uniform Titles
| 1. | Concertos, double bass, orchestra |
| 2. | Ian in the broch |