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

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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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2020

Shortlisted - Contemporary

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Birtwistle: Responses. Sweet Disorder

Work length29:24

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Stefan Asbury

Birtwistle: Gawain's Journey

Work length26:55

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Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Stefan Asbury

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Sir Harrison Birtwistle is doubtless one of the most important and influential British composers of the last decades.

This CD brings together two works with a strong link to the tradition: Responses is a piano concerto that, in accordance with historical convention, focuses on the dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra. Birtwistle's second large-scale opera, Gawain, deals with the legend of King Arthur. In the orchestral version, Gawain's Journey, which was published the same year the opera premiered, the voice parts are allocated to various instruments. Instead of merely cobbling together selected passages into an orchestral suite, Birtwistle composed them into a standalone orchestral work of immense musical power.

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February 2020

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 sounds fully engaged in what is frequently a concertante part integrated within the texture…[Gawain's Journey] stands as both a cohesive paraphrase on that piece and a gripping autonomous work.

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