Chamber, Birtwistle (composer)
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[The Duet for Eight Strings] has been extended since its first performance in 2019 and now spans almost twenty minutes, during which everything and nothing happens. The piece is brightly coloured,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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When these recordings first appeared Birtwistle enthusiasts were still absorbing the impact of three 1986 premieres, Earth Dances, The Mask ofOrpheus and Yan Tan Tethera – works which helped... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Contemporary
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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Harrison Birtwistle (The Soldier), George Benjamin (The Devil), Dame Harriet Walter (narrator)
Royal Academy of Music, Oliver Knussen
It’s recorded in a way to convey to the maximum both the poetic detail and the expert pacing of Knussen’s finely-pointed reading, and to give full rein to Dame Harriet’s wonderfully free-spirited... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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New Music for Oboe - Volume 2
Melinda Maxwell (oboe, cor anglais), Anna Barton (oboe) & Alexia Pelling (oboe), Hugh Webb (harp), Richard Benjafield (percussion), Stephen Gutman (piano)
Melinda Maxwell is an outstanding musician. The range of colour and expression she brings to this music is phenomenal. —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, Chamber Choice
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Special offer. Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber Music
Amy Freston (soprano), Adrian Brendel (cello), Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Till Fellner (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone)
All one can do with music as esoteric as this is to remember the greatness of what Birtwistle has written before and go on listening...The singer of what sounds like an extraordinary difficult... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Contemporary
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Not just a collection of clarinet works, but a well-devised retrospective of British music over three decades. Bennett's virtuoso, theatrical Scena III and Wood's engrossing, symphonic Paraphrase,... —
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The Ardittis have mastered the constant turning on dimes that this mercurial writing demands, moving effortlessly between different dynamics and attacks, while still keeping the music tightly... —
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Special offer. Harrison Birtwistle - Refrains and Choruses
Richard Shaw (piano)
The Galliard Ensemble
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Peter Maxwell Davies & Harrison Birtwistle
Mary Thomas, Mary Thomas & Rosemary Phillips, John Ogdon
The Pierrot Players, Melos Ensemble, Peter Maxwell-Davies, John Carewe, Lawrence Foster
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