Harrison Birtwistle (b.1934)
Composer
English avant-garde composer who makes uncompromising demands of players and audience alike.
His opera Gawain is also known in a complementary suite, Gawain’s Journey.
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- ...AGM... (1)
- Angel Fighter (1)
- Berceuse de Jeanne (2)
- Bogenstrich (Song Cycle for baritone, cello, and piano) (1)
- Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum (2)
- Earth Dances (4)
- Endless Parade (3)
- Five Distances (3)
- Gawain (1)
- Gawain's Journey (4)
- Hector's Dawn (2)
- Hoquetus Petrus (2)
- In Broken Images (1)
- Latin Motets (3) from The Last Supper (1)
- Linoi (2)
- Lullaby (2)
- Melencolia I (2)
- Meridian (2)
- Nenia: The Death Of Orpheus (3)
- Nine Settings for Lorine Niedecker for Soprano and cello (2)
- On the Sheer Threshold of the Night (1)
- Oockooing Bird (4)
- Orpheus Elegies (2)
- Panic (5)
- Precis (2)
- Pulse Sampler (2)
- Ritual Fragment (5)
- Sad Song (2)
- Saraband - The Kings’ Farewell (2)
- Secret Theatre (4)
- Silbury Air (2)
- The Minotaur (2)
- The Moth Requiem (2003) (1)
- The Moth Requiem (2012) (1)
- The Triumph of Time (4)
- Three Settings of Celan (2)
- Three Settings Of Lorine Niedecker (1)
- Tragoedia (4)
- Trio for violin, violoncello and piano (1)
- Verses (4)
