Cette oeuvre est la transcription de l'Ave Maria pour 4 voix égales a capella       (éd, Delatour France, réf, DLT1402),La version initiale date des années 1960, alors que l'auteur était organiste au Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre, L'excellent Quatuor d'hommes qui animait la Liturgie ainsi que l'atmosphère si particulière de la Basilique lui ont inspiré ce motet, Dans cette adaptation, les harmonies éthérées de l'accompagnement soutiennent les lignes fluides de la mélodie d'inspiration grégorienne, chantée par la soprano,Collection Compositeurs Alsaciens / Soprano

Text From 20.000 Leagues Under The Sea. Par BRYARS GAVIN. This piece is one of a series of works that take texts or imagery from the work of Jules Verne. Here the text is taken from 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, a section in which Professor Aronnax describes the scene outside the Nautilus where countless varieties of sea-creatures escort the submarine along the current of the mysterious underwater Black River. Coincidentally the first work that I wrote using Verne as a source, the cantata Effarene (1984), sets an earlier portion of the same chapter for its closing movement and I find the objectivity and invention of Verne's language a constant stimulus. As Raymond Queneau said of Verne: 'What a style! Nothing but nouns.' The piece was written for a concert given by the organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent at Leicester Cathedral in January 1991 and later recorded by him with soprano Sarah Leonard for ECM New Series in 1993. Gavin Bryars./ Répertoire / Soprano et Orgue