Music of Gavin Bryars on Sounds Choral

By Gabriel Crouch

Published October 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM EDT

This episode Sunday (10/12 at 2 pm) surveys 40 years of the composer's choral works.

Sounds Choral host Gabriel Crouch shares some of the choral music by composer and double bassist Gavin Bryars, whose works were often inspired by sacred themes, Latin texts, Italian Renaissance poetry, nature and medieval source material.

Enjoy an encore broadcast Tuesday (10/14) at 3 pm.

Tags

Gabriel Crouch

Gabriel Crouch is Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer in Music at Princeton University. He began his musical career as an eight-year-old in the choir of Westminster Abbey, where he performed a solo at the wedding of HRH Prince Andrew and Miss Sarah Ferguson. After completing a choral scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was offered a place in the renowned a cappella group The King's Singers in 1996. In the next eight years he made a dozen recordings on the BMG label (including a grammy nomination), and gave more than 900 performances in almost every major concert venue in the world.

See stories by Gabriel Crouch