Vocal, Vocal (Chamber), Birtwistle (composer)
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Special offer. Birtwistle: Secret Theatre and other works
Christine Whittlesey (soprano)
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
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Special offer. Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber Music
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... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Contemporary
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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
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Boulez A-Z: Berg - Birtwistle
Daniel Barenboim (piano), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Anna Prohaska (soprano), Gerd Nienstedt (bass (vocal)), Raymond Ducarre, Teresa Stratas (soprano, singer), Kenneth Riegel (tenor), Robert Tear (tenor), Franz Mazura (baritone), Toni Blankenheim...
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Birtwistle: Secret Theater, Ritual Fragment & Nenia: The Death of Orpheus
Rosemary Hardy (soprano)
musikFabrik, Johannes Kalitzke
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Special offer. 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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Special offer. Birtwistle - The Fields of Sorrow
Jane Manning (soprano), Alan Hacker (clarinet) & The Matrix (bass clarinets)
London Sinfonietta & Chorus, David Atherton
This trio of compositions charts Harrison Birtwistle's transition from the brutal mechanics and plaintive lyricism of his first opera Punch and Judy (1967) to the more subtle expressive qualities... — More…
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Kathleen Ferrier Centenary Edition - The Complete Decca Recordings
Kathleen Ferrier (Contralto), John Tilbury (Prepared Piano), Timothy Hutchins (Flute), John Harle (Saxophone), Paul Clarvis (Percussion), Glyndebourne Festival Chorus (Chorus), Zoe Vlachopoulos (Soprano), Southern Philharmonic Orchestra (Narrator), Ann Ayars (Soprano), Elsie Suddaby (Soprano), Eric...
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