On Christmas Day (2005) more music like this

performed by Edward Grint (bass), Fergus Thirlwell (treble), Philippa Davies (flute), King's College Choir, Cambridge (choir, chorus), Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
composed by Alexander Goehr, Arvo Pärt, Bob Chilcott, Diana Burrell, Giles Swayne, James MacMillan, John Casken, John Rutter, John Woolrich, Jonathan Dove, Jonathan Harvey, Judith Bingham, Judith Weir, Lennox Berkeley, Nicholas Maw, Peter Maxwell Davies, Thomas Adčs

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Discover Music of the 20th Century (2005) more music like this

performed by Amici Ensemble, Boris Berman (piano), Idil Biret (piano), Klára Körmendi (piano), Peter Hill (piano), Rebecca Hirsch (violin), Robert Aitken (flute), Roger Heaton (clarinet), Zofia Kilanowicz (soprano), St. John's College Choir, Cambridge (choir, chorus)
composed by Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg, Béla Bartók, Benjamin Britten, Charles Ives, Claude Debussy, Dmitry Shostakovich, Edgard Varčse, George Gershwin, Henryk Mikolaj Górecki, Igor Stravinsky, John Adams, John Cage, John Tavener, John Williams

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Harrison Birtwistle: The Woman and the Hare (2002) more music like this

performed by Nash Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
composed by Sir Harrison Birtwistle

Harrison Birtwistle's highly abstract music is not for everyone. It tears itself into component sounds and asks the listener to re-assemble them into something greater than their sum. It takes work. But the composer has a committed champion in the Nash Ensemble, and those who want to immerse themselves in Birtwistle's universe of musical gesture ...

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Nick Kimberley: Discover Opera (2006) more music like this

performed by Alessandro Carmignani (vocals), Alida Ferrarini (vocals), Alison Buchanan (vocals), Amps Kym (vocals), Ann-Christine Biel (vocals), Anne-Marie Owens (vocals), Anthony Michaels-Moore (vocals), Aradia Ensemble, Bo Skovhus (vocals)
composed by Alban Berg, Béla Bartók, Benjamin Britten, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Claude Debussy, Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, Gaetano Donizetti, George Frederick Handel, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Hector Berlioz

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Harrison Birtwistle: The Triumph of Time; Ritual Fragment; Gawain's Journey (1993) more music like this

performed by Elgar Howarth (conductor)
composed by Sir Harrison Birtwistle

While composing his large-scale operas Mask of Orpheus and Gawain, Sir Harrison Birtwistle worked out many of his ideas simultaneously in separate orchestral pieces, which are thematically connected to the stage works but otherwise intended to be performed in concert. One may get a taste of the lugubrious tone of Orpheus in the ever-cycling, ...

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A Portrait of Alan Hacker (2006) more music like this

performed by Alan Hacker (clarinet), Alan Hacker (sax), Alan Hacker (clarinet), Axel Breuch (viola), Duncan Druce (violin), Gary Kettel (percussion), Ikuko Nishida (violin), Jan Pas (cello), Jennifer Ward Clarke (baroque cello), Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello)
composed by Anonymous, Greek, Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Carl Maria von Weber, Peter Maxwell Davies, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Steve Beresford

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Taverner: To a Child Dancing in the Wind / Birtwistle: Entr'actes & Sappho Fragments (2001) more music like this

performed by Aureole Trio, Heidi Grant Murphy (soprano), James M. Baker (percussion), John Ferrillo (oboe), Paul Hostetter (conductor)
composed by John Tavener, Sir Harrison Birtwistle

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Harrison Birtwistle: Punch and Judy (1989) more music like this

performed by David Wilson-Johnson (vocals), Jan DeGaetani (vocals), John Tomlinson (vocals), Philip Langridge (vocals), Phyllis Bryn-Julson (vocals), Stephen Roberts (vocals), London Sinfonietta, David Atherton (conductor)
composed by Sir Harrison Birtwistle

Harrison Birtwistle's first opera, Punch and Judy (1966-1967), is not for the faint of heart, either musically or dramatically. Auden described Stephen Pruslin's formally innovative and semantically clever libretto as one of the finest of the twentieth century. The artificial conventions of the medieval Punch and Judy puppet show offer some ...

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Melinda Maxwell, Vol. 2: In Manchester (2007) more music like this

performed by Alexia Pelling (oboe), Anna Barton (oboe), Hugh Webb (harp), Melinda Maxwell (oboe), Melinda Maxwell (cor anglais), Richard Benjafield (percussion), Stephen Gutman (piano)
composed by Adam Gorb, Anthony Gilbert, Edward Gregson, Larry Goves, Martin Butler, Melinda Maxwell, Peter Maxwell Davies, Simon Holt, Sir Harrison Birtwistle

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a/rythmia (2009) more music like this

performed by Alan Pierson (keyboards), Alarm Will Sound, Payton MacDonald (drums), Alan Pierson (conductor)
composed by Benedict Mason, Conlon Nancarrow, David "Mochipet" Wong, György Ligeti, Johannes Ciconia, Josquin Desprez, Michael Gordon, Rob Brown/Sean Booth, Sir Harrison Birtwistle

This album by the innovative chamber ensemble Alarm Will Sound features newly written works, contemporary classics, and transcriptions of Medieval and Renaissance vocal music. With 21 members, the mixed group of winds, brass, percussion, keyboards, strings, and voices would qualify as a chamber orchestra, but most of the pieces deploy smaller ...

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Hodie Gloriosa (2007) more music like this

performed by London Mozart Players Wind Ensemble (brass ensemble)
composed by Cecilia McDowall, Edward Chance, Ludwig van Beethoven, Michael Berkeley, Richard Harvey, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Harrison Birtwistle: Nenia; The Fields of Sorrow; Verse for Ensembles (2008) more music like this

performed by Jane Manning (soprano), Matrix Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, David Atherton (conductor)
composed by Sir Harrison Birtwistle

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Harrison Birtwistle: Secret Theatre; Silbury Air; Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum (1987) more music like this

performed by London Sinfonietta, Elgar Howarth (conductor)
composed by Sir Harrison Birtwistle

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Mary Wiegold's Songbook (1991) more music like this

performed by Composers Ensemble, Mary Wiegold (soprano), Dominic Muldowney (conductor)
composed by Bayan Northcott, Colin Matthews, David Bedford, Dominic Muldowney, Howard Skempton, John Dowland, John Woolrich, Judith Weir, Keith Tippett, Michael Nyman, Philip Wilby, Sally Beamish, Simon Bainbridge, Sir Harrison Birtwistle

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Harrison Birtwistle: The Axe Manual more music like this

performed by Claire Edwardes (percussion), Nicolas Hodges (piano)
composed by Sir Harrison Birtwistle

Anyone perplexed by Harrison Birtwistle's dense and often daunting orchestral music may want to try out this disc of his more transparent piano works for clarification of the methods he employs, his varied styles, and his development over five productive decades. From the early Oockooing Bird (ca. 1950) to the Saraband: The King's Farewell (2001), ...

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