Gerald Barry

Die Etüden können einzeln oder als Sammlung in beliebiger Reihenfolge gespielt werden. Viele davon sind keine Etüden im normalen Sinne. Sie sind eher biografisch und berühren Beethovens Gedanken in se...

The Etudes may be played individually or as a collection in any order. Many of these are not etudes in the normal sense. They are more biographical, touching on Beethoven’s thoughts in his letters and...

The eleven movements of this piece were written in preparation for Barry's orchestral piece The Road (1997). The title refers to an image from childhood of sun with high wind on a remote road. The con...

In The Asylum comprises three pieces: The Rung, The Potent Rug, Wigs of Flanders.

For violin, cello, and piano. The composer writes of this piece being three pieces - 'The Rung, The Potent Rug, and Wigs of Flanders'. The work is a collection of folk inspired melodies, harmonised an...

The Piano Quartet No.1 was written in 1992 and is in one movement. The composer writes: While writing it I was reminded of painting where blocks of colour meet or where objects intersect, of the myste...

Der Titel von Barrys viertem Streichquartett bezieht sich auf eine gleichnamige Erzählung von Kafka über einen Trapezkünstler, der nur in luftiger Höhe glücklich ist. Die Musik ist beeindruckend, voll...

For string quartet. First Sorrow is based on the story by Kafka about a trapeze artist who is only happy when aloft. The work is unique in that the quartet ends with a hymn sung to the words of 'Twink...

String Quartet No. 1 is one of several off-shoots of Barry's opera The Intelligence Park. It is fittingly exuberant, and has what one critic called the 'off-the-wall' flavour of the opera, Barry's maj...

This work, as with several of Barry's pieces, exists in a number of versions; it was originally written in 1979 for two pianos. The composer desribes it as a study in ornamentation, the ornamentation...

This piece, which exists in versions for violin, cello, or piano, also appears as a coloratura aria in the opera The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit. The cello version is a virtuoso display of tremendous...

A trumpeter is a cavalry or artillery soldier who gives signals with a trumpet. (Gerald Barry, 1998) This piece may be performed on any of the following instruments in different transpositions. If pla...

For solo trumpet in B flat or C. A simple but effective piece for solo trumpet. The performance instruction is sad/simply, and Barry's programme note reads: 'A trumpeter is a cavalry or artillery sold...

Water Parted ist Barrys Oper The Intelligence Park entnommen und erzählt die Geschichte eines Komponisten, der die Fähigkeit zu komponieren verloren hat und diese später durch seine Besessenheit zu ei...

Water parted consists of movements from Acts II and III of Barry's opera 'The Intelligence Park'. The opera is set in 18th century Dublin and explores the relationship between sexuality, artistic crea...

Ø, das Barry 1979 nach dem Besuch einer Ausstellung von Rothkos Bildern in Köln komponiert hat, gehört zu seinen frühesten veröffentlichten Werken. Beide Klavierstimmen sind identisch, und der Komponi...

This song is a poignant tribute to Barry's teacher, Stockhausen. It was written for the 2008 Aldeburgh Festival programme book and is a setting of an enigmatic letter about friendship, written by Beet...