Gerald Barry

to the composer Gerald Barry.

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Incl. La Jaloisie Taciturne and Lisbon.

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The BBC record page for The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Act 4, excerpt) by Barbara Hannigan. Listen to a preview and add to your playlist

Very brief recording of Barbara Hannigan in ENO’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.

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String Quartet No. 1 (1994)

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Setting of O Tannenbaum.

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Bachtrack is asking the same six questions to many composers this month as part of its focus on contemporary music. Here’s what Gerald Barry had to say.

Interview for composers.

“Q. How is composing changing, and where do you want new music to go in the future?

GB: I never think about that. I don’t want music to go anywhere.”

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Excerpts from the Irish premiere production of The Importance of Being Earnest (Wide Open Opera)

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Conversation about The Importance of Being Earnest ahead of the European premiere in the Barbican in 2012 with Thomas Ades, Stephen Fry and Fiona Shaw

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Triorchic Blues performed by Pavel Nersessian in the 1991 Dublin International Piano Competition (which he, rightly, won).

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Complete playlist of recordings available on Spotify.

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A 21 year old Barry writes to Samuel Backett in 1973 thanking him for permission to use his poem Lesseness in a setting which has since been withdrawn.

http://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitions/in-tune/modern_irish_masters.php