
Gerald Barry was born in Ireland in 1952 and studied composition with Stockhausen and Kagel. He first came to public attention in 1979 with his radical ensemble works ‘__________’ and ‘Ø’. Many of his works have been commissioned by the BBC, including Chevaux-de-frise for the Ulster Orchestra at the 1988 Proms, The Conquest of Ireland and Day for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Eternal Recurrence, a setting of Nietzsche for voice and orchestra, and Hard D for the Orkest de Volharding.
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Piano Quartet No. 1
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I: Act I: Auld Lang Syne
Triorchic Blues
Cheveaux-de-frise
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I: Act I: Did you hear what I was playing? (Algernon, Lane, Jack, Choir)
Beethoven
The Intelligence Park: Interlude: The Banquet of Dummies
Hard D
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I: Act I: Lady Bracknell and Miss Fairfax (Lane, Lady Bracknell, Algernon, Gwendolen, Jack)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I: Act I: Freude, schoner Gotterfunken (Lady Bracknell)
Piano Concerto
Carol
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I: Act I: Miss Fairfax, ever since I met you (Jack, Gwendolen)
Alice's Adventures Under Ground: “I Shall be Too Late!...Down!”
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I: Act I: Mister Worthing! (Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen, Jack)
Diner
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I: Act I: Are your parents living? (Lady Bracknell, Jack)
'_____'
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I: Act I: I feel bound to tell you (Lady Bracknell, Jack)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I: Act I: What should I do? (Jack, Lady Bracknell)
Sur Les Pointes
Au milieu
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I: Act I: What should I do? (reprise) (Jack, Lady Bracknell)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I: Act I: Will you stop!! (Jack, Algernon, Lane, Gwendolen)
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II: Act II: Mister Worthing! (Miss Prism, Chasuble, Jack, Cecily, Algernon)
Bob
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II: Act II: You are my little cousin Cecily (Algernon, Cecily)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II: Act II: Garden at the Manor House: Cecily, Cecily! (Miss Prism, Cecily)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II: Act II: Freude, schoner Gotterfunken (Miss Prism, Cecily, Merriman)
Alice's Adventures Under Ground: “I’ve Sent Them All”
The Eternal Recurrence
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II: Act II: He's going to send me away (Algernon, Cecily, Merriman)
Of Queens' Gardens
Swinging tripes and trillibubkins
Sextet
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act III: Act III: Mister Worthing, is Miss Cardew (Lady Bracknell, Jack)
Viola Concerto
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II: Act II: Cecily, ever since I looked (Algernon, Cecily, Merriman)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II: Act II: You must not laugh at me (Cecily, Algernon)
Chorale
Flamboys
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II: Act II: Miss Fairfax (Merriman, Cecily, Gwendolen)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II: Act II: I had no idea (Gwendolen, Cecily, Jack, Algernon)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II: Act II: Orchestral Interlude
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act III: Act III: Orchestral Introduction (Cecily)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act III: Act III: Lady Bracknell (Merriman, Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen, Jack, Algernon, Cecily)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act III: Act III: Is this the handbag? (Jack, Miss Prism, Lady Bracknell)
Root Position
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act III: Act III: But where did you deposit the handbag? (Jack, Miss Prism, Gwendolen)
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