Harrison Birtwistle
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About Harrison Birtwistle
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)
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Punch and Judy: Toccata I b
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3rd Song of Magic (a) (Orpheus) -
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Three Latin Motets from 'The Last Supper': III. In supremae nocte cenae
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chronometer
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earth dances
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Panic
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The Moth Requiem
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Virelai (Sus une fontayne)
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Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum
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Secret Theatre
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The Triumph of Time
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Lullaby
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The Mask of Orpheus, Act I Scene 1: Act I Scene 1: First Passing Cloud
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Ritual Fragment
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Punch and Judy: Resolve I
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Silbury Air
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Night's Black Bird
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Theseus Game
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Tragoedia: Prologue
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Three Settings of Lorine Niedecker (For Soprano and Violoncello): Always North of Him
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The Mask of Orpheus, Act I: Act I: Parados
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The Ring Dance of the Nazarene
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Tragoedia: Parados
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Sleep Song
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The Shadow of Night
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The Axe Manual
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Sad Song
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Berceuse de Jeanne (Arr. for Guitar by Forbes Henderson)
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Five Distances
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Silbury Air: —
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Trio for violin, violoncello and piano
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Oockooing Bird
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Tragoedia: Stasimon
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Endless Parade
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Gawain, Act I (1994 Revised Version): Act I: Entrance of the Green Knight: Now I shall test his strength (Morgan, The Lady)
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The Mask of Orpheus, Act I Scene 1: Act I Scene 1: the First Poem of Reminiscence
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Tragoedia: Antistrophe I
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The Cry of Anubis
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Silbury Air: Figure 5
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Nomos
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Silbury Air: Figure 16
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Tragoedia: Episodion: Strophe I - Anapaest I
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Je sui aussi
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Endless Parade for Trumpet, Vibraphone and Strings (1987)
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Berceuse de Jeanne
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Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano
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Three Settings of Lorine Niedecker (For Soprano and Violoncello): I Was the Solitary Plover
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On the sheer Threshold of the night
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Carmen Paschale
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