"Gavin Bryars' music presents the listener with sublime paradoxes. It
sounds both familiar and uncanny; archaic and modern; elegiac and
impassive. His unfurling melodies tug at the heartstrings, but drift
away from any anticipated climaxes. His scores draw on 20th century
minimalist and experimental music, refracted through Renaissance choral
music, cushioned by an Edwardian gauze of dark-hued strings. It's music
for time travellers. ...."
2023 April: The Sinking Of The Titanic (1975)
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