Birtwistle - Orpheus Elegies
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Birtwistle: Songs 1970–2006
Alice Rossi (soprano)
Das Neue Ensemble, Kuss Quartet, Soloists of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Stefan Asbury
the performance is admirable and all the recordings, taken from an 80th-birthday celebration of Birtwistle's music in Germany, are satisfyingly polished and atmospheric. — More…
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Birtwistle - Orpheus Elegies
Melinda Maxwell (oboe), Helen Tunstall (harp), Andrew Watts (counter-tenor) with Claire Seaton (soprano), William Stafford and Tom Verity (clarinets/bass clarinets) & Ben Fullbrook (marimba)
The range of musical processes and the power with which Birtwistle invest the writing is extraordinary. The pieces seem like snapshots from different perspectives of some vast, barely graspable... — More…
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