Browse: Birtwistle (composer)
This page lists all recordings composed by Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022).
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Birtwistle: Night’s Black Bird RecommendedOwen Slade (tuba)
The Hallé Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth
these are among the most powerful orchestral pieces of recent years...Wigglesworth and the Halle give performances of amazing concentration, accuracy and passion, aided by recorded sound of a... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Premiere Recording of the Year
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[The Duet for Eight Strings] has been extended since its first performance in 2019 and now spans almost twenty minutes, during which everything and nothing happens. The piece is brightly coloured,... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Birtwistle: Angel Fighter Andrew Watts (Angel) & Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Jacob)
BBC Singers & London Sinfonietta, David Atherton
Birtwistle unleashes all his powers as a stage composer onto Stephen Plaice's text, using the whole building to create a thrilling dramatisation of the Bible story…pungent pizzicato rhythms,... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Contemporary
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Kuusisto: Symphony, Op. 39, Pictured Within & Birthday Variations for M.C.B.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Big, hymnlike tunes emerge from straining and urgent textures, and like so much Finnish music, this is not afraid to look into the abyss. — More…
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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…
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Contemporary
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Birtwistle: The Moth Requiem RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Singers & Nash Ensemble, Nicholas Kok
This is a wonderful and important release of his powerful and often delicate works. Best, perhaps, to begin with On the Sheer Threshold of the Night, which is a kind of spin-off from The Mask... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Contemporary
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Few, if any, duos are better equipped to take on this mantle than Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich.Aimard’s exceptionally close association with Messiaen and Loriod goes back to his... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Birtwistle: The Minotaur John Tomlinson (The Minotaur), Johan Reuter (Theseus), Christine Rice (Ariadne), Andrew Watts (Snake Priestess), Philip Langridge (Hiereus), Amanda Echalaz (Ker), Rebecca Bottone, Pumeza Matshikiza, Wendy Dawn Thompson, Christopher Ainslie, Tim Mead (Innocents)
The Royal Opera Chorus & The...
This opera, premiered at the Royal Opera last April, seems to me to be a masterpiece, of the kind that one feels the greatness of before one has a complete understanding of it. …the Minotaur... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - DVD
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Opera, September 2009, Recording of the Month
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Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Harrison Birtwistle (The Soldier), George Benjamin (The Devil), Dame Harriet Walter (narrator)
Royal Academy of Music, Oliver Knussen
It’s recorded in a way to convey to the maximum both the poetic detail and the expert pacing of Knussen’s finely-pointed reading, and to give full rein to Dame Harriet’s wonderfully free-spirited... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers, Andrew Davis and Martyn Brabbins
Birtwistle's opera is about the Orpheus myth, but the familiar story has been fragmented. Each of the principal characters is represented by two singers and a (silent) dancer, and much of what... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Contemporary
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