The Sinking of the Titanic

Album by Gavin Bryars

The Sinking of the Titanic is an album by English composer Gavin Bryars, released in 1975. The work blends minimalist, ambient and experimental approaches, employing slow, repeated motifs, brass textures and tape-loop fragments to evoke and reinterpret the maritime tragedy, and it occupies an early position in Bryars's development of a crossover between contemporary classical and ambient music.
First released: 1990

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Opening Part I
    1:48
  2. 2.
    Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings
    5:09
  3. 3.
    Hymn II
    5:25
  4. 4.
    Interlude
    4:35
  5. 5.
    Hymn III
    7:46
  6. 6.
    Hymn IV (Aughton)
    6:25
  7. 7.
    Opening Part II
    6:10
  8. 8.
    Titanic Lament
    5:23
  9. 9.
    Woodblocks
    11:39
  10. 10.
    Last Hymn
    2:06
  11. 11.
    Coda
    4:40

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