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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Antiphonies for Piano & Orchestra

Axe Manual

Berceuse de Jeanne

Betty Freeman - Her Tango

Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum

Chorale from a Toy-Shop

Clarinet Quintet

Duets for Storab

Earth Dances

Endless Parade

Five Distances

Four Interludes for a Tragedy

Gawain's Journey

Harrison’s Clocks

Hector's Dawn

Hoquetus Petrus

Linoi

Night’s Black Bird

Nine Movements for String Quartet

Nine Orpheus Elegies

Oockooing Bird

Orpheus Elegies for oboe, harp & counter-tenor

Ostinato with Melody

Panic

Precis

Pulse Sampler

Pulse Shadows

Punch and Judy

Refrains and Choruses

Ring a Dumb Carillon

Ritual Fragment

Sad Song

Saraband - The Kings’ Farewell

Secret Theatre

Silbury Air

String Quartet: The Tree of Strings

The Cry of Anubis

The Fields of Sorrow

The Gleam

The Mask of Orpheus

The Minotaur

The Shadow of Night

The Triumph of Time

This Silence before Light

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

Three Nocturnes

Tragoedia

Ut heremita solus

Verses

White and Light

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