Harrison Birtwistle

The title of these five musical timepieces refers to the 18th century clockmaker John Harrison whose struggle to develop the first reliable navigational chronometer is related in Dava Sobel's book Lon...

Written over a two year period from 2009-2010, and premiered in stages, the world premiere of the complete Oboe Quartet by Harrison Birtwistle took place at Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik in May 2...

Spielpartitur - Sopran und Violoncello

Contents: Thread suns - White and Light - Psalm - With Letter and Clock - An Eye, open - Todnauberg - Tenebrae - Night - Give the Word.

An Interrupted Endless Melody umfasst einen Oboensatz und drei verschiedene Klavierbegleitungen. Eine Aufführung besteht entweder aus einer Version für Oboe mit einer de Klavierbegleitungen oder der F...

Partitur - 'Der Triumph der Zeit' - Kupferstich von Pieter Bruegel d. Ä.

Music for Sleep is designed to be played by children, and performed by the following voices and instruments: a) Children's voices, unison, two and three parts b) Piano c) Three wind instruments (any o...

Orchestral parts available on rental from Boosey & Hawkes Contents: Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland - Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ - Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf - Christe, du Lamm Gottes -...

Partitur und Stimmen

The gods look down and laugh... David Harsent's retelling of the myth of the Cretan Minotaur has a powerful slant: it considers the inner world of the Minotaur himself, and suggests a dark and compell...

Lied ohne Worte wurde vom Klavierfestival Ruhr anlässlich des 75. Geburtstages von Alfred Brendel in Auftrag gegeben. Sein Sohn Adrian (Cello) führte es (unter dem Title Lied) am 9. August 2009 zusamm...

Der Ausgangspunkt für Harrison Birtwistles In Broken Images war die Musik von Giovanni Gabrieli mit ihren Interludien zwischen Gruppen von Instrumenten. Aber anstatt Gabrielis Gebrauch von Echoeffekte...

Lied ohne Worte was commissioned by the Ruhr Piano Festival for Alfred Brendel’s 75th birthday. First performed (as Lied) on 9 August 2006 with Adrian Brendel and Till Fellner, Wuppertal, Historische...

Commissioned by ROCHE for the 2004 Lucerne Festival as a companion piece to The Shadow of Night, this latest addition to the Hawkes Pocket Score Series takes its title from the text of the John Dowlan...

Dieses charakteristisch sich entfaltende, aus einem einzigen Satz von 29 Minuten Länge bestehende Werk trägt den bemerkenswerten Titel: Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, (Antworten...

In the late 1970s, Birtwistle lived on the island of Raasay off the west coast of Scotland. He was disappointed to discover that due to centuries of Scottish Presbyterian prohibition there was no surv...

Flöte; Oboe; Fagott; Klarinette in B; Horn in F Dauer (min): 7 Min.

Dramatic tableaux for 14 soloists, small female chorus and chamber orchestra

Birtwistle's Concerto for violin and orchestra was commissioned for Christian Tetzlaff by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was first performed at Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts by Tetzlaff and...

Commissioned by ROCHE for the 2004 Lucerne Festival as a companion piece to The Shadow of Night, this latest addition to the Hawkes Pocket Score Series takes its title from the text of the John Dowlan...

This work received its first performances under the baton of Daniel Barenboim in 2017 in Berlin and London. The 23-minute score, dedicated to the memory of Peter Maxwell Davies, was commissioned by th...