Release Date: 20 September 2019
Label: Neos
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4260063117299
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
Sir Harrison Birtwistle is doubtless one of the most important and influential British composers of the last decades.
This CD brings together two works with a strong link to the tradition: Responses is a piano concerto that, in accordance with historical convention, focuses on the dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra. Birtwistle's second large-scale opera, Gawain, deals with the legend of King Arthur. In the orchestral version, Gawain's Journey, which was published the same year the opera premiered, the voice parts are allocated to various instruments. Instead of merely cobbling together selected passages into an orchestral suite, Birtwistle composed them into a standalone orchestral work of immense musical power.
Tracklisting
Claude Lenners, Noise Watchers Unlimited Ensemble
Munchener Kammerorchester, Ilan Volkov, Jessica Niles, Tobias Vogelmann
Tobias Eduard Schick
Cuarteto Ornati
Festival Strings Lucerne Chamber Players
Klara Tomljanovic, Alberto Carretero, Marton Illes, Vito Zuraj, Steingrimur Rohloff, Nikolaus Brass, Detlef Heusinger
Ensemble Musikfabrik, Carl Rosman, Patrick Stadler
lovemusic & Santiago Diez Fischer
Gavin Bryars
Ilse Eerens, Tomoko Kasai, Mayumi Miyata, Masanori Oishi, Saori Oya, Naoko Yoshino
L'Itineraire, Leo Margue
Hashtag Ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Davis
Joel-Francois Durand
Elisabeth Harnik
Kristine Tjogersen
