Three Viennese Dancers

by Gavin Bryars

Three Viennese Dancers cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1986
  • Label: ECM
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 48:03
  • Community rating: 3.74/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The English avant-garde composer presents a deeply evocative suite characterized by slow, hypnotic string arrangements and haunting percussion. Drawing on historical and conceptual themes, the work highlights his unique ability to merge strict minimalism with profound emotional resonance.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, ambient, piano, minimal, delicate, chamber, strings, suite, repetitive

Tracklist

  1. Prologue (4:36)
  2. String Quartet No. 1, Between the National and the Bristol (20:03)
  3. First Viennese Dance (18:47)
  4. Epilogue (4:36)

Credits

  • Arditti Quartet - primary artist, strings
  • Pascal Pongy - primary artist, french horn
  • Charles Fullbrook - primary artist, gong [tuned], gong [tuned, plate], glockenspiel, crotales, percussion [mark-tree], bell tree [bell-tree], marimba, tubular bells, bells [sleigh], cymbal, tam-tam [tam-tams], rototoms [roto-tom], wind chimes
  • Rohan de Saram - cello
  • Levine Andrade - viola
  • Alexander Balanescu - violin
  • Irvine Arditti - violin

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