Harrison Birtwistle

(b.1934)

Harrison Birtwistle (b.1934)

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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Works

An interrupted Endless Melody

Berceuse de Jeanne

Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum

Chorale from a Toy-Shop

Clarinet Quintet

Duets for Storab

Endless Parade

Five Distances

Four Interludes for a Tragedy

Gawain's Journey

Grimethorpe Aria

Hector's Dawn

Hoquetus Petrus

Lied for piano & cello

Linoi

Melencolia I

Meridian

Nenia: The Death Of Orpheus

Nine Orpheus Elegies

Oockooing Bird

Orpheus Elegies for oboe, harp & counter-tenor

Precis

Pulse Sampler

Pulse Shadows

Punch and Judy

Refrains and Choruses

Ring a Dumb Carillon

Ritual Fragment

Sad Song

Secret Theatre

Silbury Air

The Fields of Sorrow

The Gleam

The Mask of Orpheus

The Minotaur

The Triumph of Time

This Silence before Light

Three Bach Arias for soprano, counter- tenor, oboe and ensemble

Three Nocturnes

Tragoedia

Verses

White and Light

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