More By Artist: Barry Guy
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Barry Guy / Jordina Millà
Live in Munich [ ECM / CD - released 5/Jul/2024 ] This concert recording from Munich's Schwere Reiter performance space features improvisation with an expanded palette of possibilities. "To work with these colours is a great challenge and joy!" says bassist Barry Guy of the glowing and ever-changing... |
GYORGY LIGETI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ligeti - String Quartets 1 & 2 / Vocal works Artemis Quartet / Barry Tuckwell Wind Quintet / Groupe Vocal de France, Guy Reibel [ EMI 20th Century Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] Lux Aeterna put Ligeti on the map for the wider public when Stanley Kubrick appropriated it for its unearthly effect in his film 2001, A Space Odyssey. But his music began firmly in his Hungarian roots, and bears a debt to Bartók and Kodály. |
Agustí Fernández / Barry Guy / Ramón López:
A Moment's Liberty [ Maya Recordings / CD ] The disc opens with a lengthy (18-minute) Fernández composition "A Moment's Liberty." The pianist, playing solo, favors sumptuous notes and rich balladry. Even after his bandmates enter the tone is inspired and celebratory. |
EVAN PARKER
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Toward the Margins Evan Parker (soprano saxophone) / Barry Guy (double-bass) / Paul Lytton (percussion, live-electronics) / Philipp Wachsmann (violin, viola, live elect) [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Sep/2008 ] British saxophonist Evan Parker was one of the first musicians to record for ECM, appearing on the label's fifth album in 1970 as a member of the Music Improvisation Company |
JOHN DOWLAND
In Darkness Let Me Dwell John Potter (tenor) / Maya Homburger (baroque violin) / Stephen Stubbs (lute) / John Surman (soprano saxophone & bass clarinet) / Barry Guy (double ba [ ECM Dowland Project / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] A fascinating project initiated by Hilliard Ensemble tenorist John Potter with producer Manfred Eicher, which re-examines the beautiful songs of the great sixteenth century composer from a present-day perspective. |
Maya Homburger, baroque violin, Barry Guy, double-bass
Biber - Annunciation / Barry Guy - Celebration, Immeasurable Sky, Ceremanoy, etc [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "Ceremony" explores the field of tension between old and new music, and between composition and improvisation |
BARRY GUY
Folio Maya Homburger (baroque violin) / Muriel Cantoreggi (violin) / Barry Guy (double-bass) / Manchener Kammerorchester / Christoph Poppen (conductor) [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] Folio” is a major statement from Barry Guy. Over the last three decades the British bassist/composer/improviser, weaving between the genres with characteristic unflagging energy, has uniquely made an impact on jazz, free improvisation and... |
