Harrison Birtwistle

Beyond the White Hand: Construction with Guitar Player, was commissioned by the Julian Bream Trust and first performed at St John's Smith Square by Andrey Lebedev in 2014. This substantial addition to...

Variations from the Golden Mountain was commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the partial support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffman, a Swiss grant making foundation. It was first perfo...

These four short pieces, though simple on the surface, all give glimpses in miniature of the technical ideas which characterise Birtwistle's larger works. Ostinato with Melody, dedicated to Boulez on...

In The Woman and the Hare teilen sich Sopran und eine weibliche Sprecherin den Text, wobei jede in ihrer eigenen musikalischen Geschwindigkeit singt bzw. spricht. Die Beziehung zwischen diesen beiden...

Die fünf Duette, die in diesen 5 Lessons eingerahmt werden, entstammen fünf Instrumentalduetten, die für Mitglieder der London Sinfonietta zwischen 2008 und 2014 komponiert wurden: The Message [Die Na...

Composed in 2002 for large ensemble with two conductors. The work explores the relationship between solo performers positioned at 'stations' on the platform, and two tutti ensembles with constantly sh...

Written for Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Adrian Brendel (cello) and Till Fellner (piano), Trio (2010) received its world premiere in Celle, Germany in April 2011.

In the late 1970s, Birtwistle lived on the island of Raasay off the west coast of Scotland. He was disappointed to discover that due to centuries of Scottish Presbyterian prohibition there was no surv...

Flöte; Oboe; Fagott; Klarinette in B; Horn in F Dauer (min): 7 Min.

Commissioned by the Ruhr Piano Festival for Alfred Brendel's 75 th birthday. The cello part at the premier was played by Alfred Brendel's son Adrian. The work has an epigram by Rilke, from Liebes-Lied...

Der ursprüngliche Zyklus Bogenstrich wurde für Singstimme, Cello und Klavier komponiert. Die vorliegende Auswahl der drei Stücke Lied ohne Worte, Variationen und Wie eine Fuge sind hingegen nur für Vi...

This piece is an exploration of resonance, and in the essential nature of the earliest harps. Crowd (etymologically related to the Celtic words crwth, cruit or crot) was the English term used for inst...

Dies ist das erste Stück eines zeitgenössischen Komponisten für eine A-Klarinette, dessen Umfang bis zum tiefen C reicht. Gegen Ende des Stücks muss der Spieler das Instrument gegen eine tiefere Klari...

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