
Harrison Birtwistle is one of England's foremost living composers. Born Accrington, 15th July 1934, died Mere Wiltshire, 18th April 2022. He studied Clarinet and Composition at the Royal Manchester College of Music from 1953 where, along with fellow students Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr, John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth, he formed the New Music Manchester group which was dedicated to performing avant-garde and contemporary compositions. While using mostly conventional instrumental resources
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Ostinato With Melody (For Pierre Boulez)
Punch and Judy: Toccata I b
3rd Song of Magic (a) (Orpheus) -
Three Latin Motets from 'The Last Supper': III. In supremae nocte cenae
chronometer
earth dances
Panic
The Moth Requiem
Virelai (Sus une fontayne)
Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum
Secret Theatre
The Triumph of Time
Lullaby
The Mask of Orpheus, Act I Scene 1: Act I Scene 1: First Passing Cloud
Ritual Fragment
Punch and Judy: Resolve I
Silbury Air
Night's Black Bird
Theseus Game
Tragoedia: Prologue
Three Settings of Lorine Niedecker (For Soprano and Violoncello): Always North of Him
The Mask of Orpheus, Act I: Act I: Parados
The Ring Dance of the Nazarene
Tragoedia: Parados
Sleep Song
The Shadow of Night
The Axe Manual
Sad Song
Berceuse de Jeanne (Arr. for Guitar by Forbes Henderson)
Five Distances
Silbury Air: —
Trio for violin, violoncello and piano
Oockooing Bird
Tragoedia: Stasimon
Endless Parade
Gawain, Act I (1994 Revised Version): Act I: Entrance of the Green Knight: Now I shall test his strength (Morgan, The Lady)
The Mask of Orpheus, Act I Scene 1: Act I Scene 1: the First Poem of Reminiscence
Tragoedia: Antistrophe I
The Cry of Anubis
Silbury Air: Figure 5
Nomos
Silbury Air: Figure 16
Tragoedia: Episodion: Strophe I - Anapaest I
Je sui aussi
Endless Parade for Trumpet, Vibraphone and Strings (1987)
Berceuse de Jeanne
Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano
Three Settings of Lorine Niedecker (For Soprano and Violoncello): I Was the Solitary Plover
On the sheer Threshold of the night
Carmen Paschale
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