I have heard it said that a spirit enters
composer: Gavin Bryars
text writer: Marilyn Bowering
No. 1 from 'Three Canadian Songs'
for low female voice and chamber orchestra
text from 'To All Appearances a Lady' by Marilyn Bowering (1990)
Premiere: June 30, 2002 Vancouver (BC), Orpheum Theatre (CDN) · Holly Cole, voice; Gavin Bryars, jazz bass · Conductor: Owen Underhill · CBC Radio Orchestra
Orchestra instrumentation: 0.0.0.1-2.0.0.0-perc(sizz cym, s.d)-str(8.7.6.6.4 including obbligato jazz double bass)
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 5' 0''
Year of composition: 2002
Language: English
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I have heard it said that a spirit enters (2010)
Gavin Bryars- Three Canadian Songs
- I have heard it said that a spirit enters
- Planet Earth
- The Apple
- Violin Concerto
- The Porazzi Fragment
- By the Vaar
CBC Radio Orchestra; Holly Cole, voice; Gwen Hoebig, solo violin; Gavin Bryars, solo double bass; Owen Underhill, conductor
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BCGBCD12
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LSL 10021-3 = Planet Earth, performance material
LSL 10021-4 = The Apple, performance material
LSL 10021-01 = Three Canadian Songs, performance material
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