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Harrison Birtwistle

~ Sir Harrison Birtwistle (Composer, Conductor), Elgar Howarth (Conductor), Sir Andrew Davis (Conductor), Ensemble InterContemporain (Orchestra), Paris (Orchestra), et al.
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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Trageodia: Prologue
2. Trageodia: Parados
3. Trageodia: Episodion: Strophe I - Anapaest I
4. Trageodia: Antistrophe I
5. Trageodia: Stasimon
6. Trageodia: Episodion: Strophe II - Anapaest II
7. Trageodia: Antistrophe II
8. Trageodia: Exodos
9. Five Distances
10. Three Settings Of Celan: White And Light - Christine Whittlesey
See all 13 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Endless Parade - Hakan Hardenberger/Paul Patrick
2. Panic - John Harle/Paul Clarvis
3. Earth Dances - The Cleveland Orch/Christoph Von Dohnanyi

On this CD:
  1. Tragoedia
    Composed by Sir Harrison Birtwistle
    Performed by Paris Ensemble InterContemporain
    Conducted by Pierre Boulez

  2. (5) Distances
    Composed by Sir Harrison Birtwistle
    Performed by Paris Ensemble InterContemporain
    Conducted by Pierre Boulez

  3. (3) Settings of Celan
    Composed by Sir Harrison Birtwistle
    Performed by Paris Ensemble InterContemporain
    with Christine Whittlesey
    Conducted by Pierre Boulez

  4. Secret Theatre
    Composed by Sir Harrison Birtwistle
    Performed by Paris Ensemble InterContemporain
    Conducted by Pierre Boulez

  5. Endless Parade
    Composed by Sir Harrison Birtwistle
    with Håkan Hardenberger
    Conducted by Elgar Howarth

  6. Panic
    Composed by Sir Harrison Birtwistle
    Performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra
    with John Harle, Paul Clarvis
    Conducted by Sir Andrew Davis

  7. Earth Dances
    Composed by Sir Harrison Birtwistle
    Performed by Cleveland Orchestra
    Conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi


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Amazon.co.uk Review
This is an admirable introduction to the music of Harrison Birtwistle, an important contemporary composer whose discography should ideally be much larger. Some of Birtwistle's most significant non-operatic scores are presented here in uniformly expert performances. Pierre Boulez, that staunchest supporter of modern music, directs the Ensemble Intercontemporain in the arresting Trageodia (a piece constructed on the formal structures of Greek tragedy), the Stravinskian Five Distances, the starkly dramatic Three Settings of Celan and Secret Theatre. In this latter work, Boulez brings out the drama in the score while simultaneously managing the delicate tracery of the parts to perfection. The second disc contains some of Birtwistle's most powerful music to date. In Endless Parade (inspired by a visit to Lucca and a procession he saw there), the trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger displays almost superhuman stamina. The sound world of this piece is continued in Panic, a piece which provoked outrage following its Proms premiere in 1995. It is certainly unremitting in its demands on the listener. But, orchestrally, Earth Dances remains Birtwistle's masterpiece to date and the Cleveland Orchestra under Dohnányi gives a monumental account. The confidence of Birtwistle's writing is overwhelming. This set represents a true bargain: the music will richly reward repeated hearings. --Colin Clarke

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5.0 out of 5 stars The entrance to a secret theatre . ., 22 Jun 2001
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I came to Harrison Birtwhistle's music as someone drawn in by BBC Radio 3's increasingly diverse musical policy, in particular through a season which included many of the pieces included here.

My own musical background is in industrial/avante garde rock, so the strangeness and superficial 'difficulty' in the sound is, if anything, an attraction, but the underlying complexity and - even - lushness of this music is a revalation. I've encountered music that attempts moods of mystery, reflective melancholy and ritual invocation before, but nothing where technical accomplishment and execution live up to the artist's conception to such overpowering effect.

. . and here are one hundred and fifty minutes of performances, for the price of a single CD! By all accounts, this offers a superb introduction to the range of Birtwhistle's work.

If you're looking for a way in, the earth opens here.

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