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  • Birtwistle: Angel Fighter

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    Andrew Watts (Angel) & Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Jacob)

    BBC Singers & London Sinfonietta, David Atherton

    Birtwistle unleashes all his powers as a stage composer onto Stephen Plaice's text, using the whole building to create a thrilling dramatisation of the Bible story…pungent pizzicato rhythms,... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…
    • Release Date: 18th May 2015
    • Catalogue No: NMCD211
    • Label: NMC
    • Length: 53 minutes

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  • Birtwistle: Night’s Black Bird

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    Owen Slade (tuba)

    The Hallé Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth

    these are among the most powerful orchestral pieces of recent years...Wigglesworth and the Halle give performances of amazing concentration, accuracy and passion, aided by recorded sound of... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 16th May 2011
    • Catalogue No: NMCD156
    • Label: NMC
    • Length: 55 minutes

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  • Visions

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    Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Tamara Stefanovich (piano)

    Few, if any, duos are better equipped to take on this mantle than Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich.Aimard’s exceptionally close association with Messiaen and Loriod goes back to... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 23rd Sep 2022
    • Catalogue No: PTC5186957
    • Label: Pentatone
    • Length: 68 minutes

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  • This Is Rattle

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    Grime, Ades. Birtwistle, Knussen & Elgar

    Christian Tetzlaff (violin)

    London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

    The dazzling panache of the LSO’s playing has you wondering all over again at the mesmerising range of options that Adès’s ear and technical command can summon…And Elgar’s Enigma Variations... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 6th Sep 2019
    • Catalogue No: LSO3066
    • Label: LSO Live

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  • Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus

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    BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers, Andrew Davis and Martyn Brabbins

    Birtwistle's opera is about the Orpheus myth, but the familiar story has been fragmented. Each of the principal characters is represented by two singers and a (silent) dancer, and much of what... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…
    • Catalogue No: NMCD050
    • Label: NMC
    • Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

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    3 CDs

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  • Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber Music

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    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... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 14th Apr 2014
    • Catalogue No: 4765050
    • Label: ECM
    • Series: New Series
    • Length: 65 minutes

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  • The NMC Songbook

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    Sopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton

    Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby

    Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts

    Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett

    Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...

    …anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 6th Apr 2009
    • Catalogue No: NMCD150
    • Label: NMC
    • Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

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    4 CDs

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  • Harrison Birtwistle: Responses (Sweet Disorder) & Gawain's Journey

    Harrison Birtwistle: Responses (Sweet Disorder) & Gawain's Journey

    Symphonieorchester der Bayerischen Rundfunks, Stefan Asbury

    Sweet Disorder (2014) might seem a fanciful title but aptly evokes the interplay between methodical balance and playful anarchy characterising the dialogue between soloist and orchestra...Aimard... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2020 More…
    • Release Date: 20th Sep 2019
    • Catalogue No: NEOS11729
    • Label: Neos
    • Length: 56 minutes

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  • British Music Collection - Harrison Birtwistle

    British Music Collection - Harrison Birtwistle

    John Harle (saxaphone), Paul Clarvis (percussion), Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Christine Whittlesey (soprano)

    Cleveland Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Ensemble Inter Contemporain, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Andrew Davis, Pierre Boulez

    • Catalogue No: 4688042
    • Label: Decca
    • Series: British Music Collection
    • Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

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  • Birtwistle: Pulse Shadows

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    Claron McFadden (soprano)

    Arditti Quartet, Nash Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw

    From Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire to Boulez's Le marteau sans maître and Kurtág's Messages of the late RV Troussova, modernist composers have used the medium of voice with mixed instrumental... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…
    • Catalogue No: 3984268672
    • Label: Teldec
    • Length: 63 minutes

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