Harrison Birtwistle: spartiti difficile

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...

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...

Lied ohne Worte è stato commissionato dal Ruhr Piano Festival per il 75° compleanno di Alfred Brendel. Eseguito per la prima volta (come Lied) il 9 agosto 2006 con Adrian Brendel e Till Fellner, Wuppe...

Lied ohne Worte wurde vom Klavierfestival Ruhr anlässlich des 75. Geburtstages von Alfred Brendel in Auftrag gegeben. Sein Sohn Adrian (Cello) führte es (unter dem Title Lied) am 9. August 2009 zusamm...