Lockerbie Memorial Concert is the third release on composer Gavin Bryars' boutique label GB Records, and is taken from a concert given December 21, 1998, at Westminster Cathedral as an observance of the 10th anniversary of the explosion of Pam Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Likely an act of terrorism, this event claimed 270 lives, one of them being sound engineer Bill Cadman, a close friend of the composer. The audience for this carefully chosen program included family members of Lockerbie disaster victims, and ...
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Lockerbie Memorial Concert is the third release on composer Gavin Bryars' boutique label GB Records, and is taken from a concert given December 21, 1998, at Westminster Cathedral as an observance of the 10th anniversary of the explosion of Pam Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Likely an act of terrorism, this event claimed 270 lives, one of them being sound engineer Bill Cadman, a close friend of the composer. The audience for this carefully chosen program included family members of Lockerbie disaster victims, and they were treated to an evening of music presented by the Hilliard Ensemble and Fretwork under the direction of Bryars himself.Of the original Bryars works featured here, Incipit Vita Nova, In Nomine (after Purcell), and the Cadman Requiem have appeared on CD before any studio-made recordings, although Incipit Vita Nova is presented in a configuration for an instrumental consort rather than for voices and strings as on the ECM New Series album Vita Nova. For most Bryars' fans, the Point...
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