Sir Harrison Birtwistle
*15.07.1934

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Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum
24.05.2012, London (GB)

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Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum | for ensemble

Work Details
Year of composition: 1977/1978
Scored for: for ensemble
Composer: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Instrumentation: 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 0 - mar, pno, str(1 1 1 1 1)
Instrumentation details: flute (+picc); oboe; clarinet in Bb (+bass cl(Bb)); bassoon (+cbsn); horn in F; trumpet in C; trombone; marimba; piano (or e.pno); 1st violin(1); 2nd violin(1); viola(1); violoncello(1); contrabass(1)
Commissioned by: Commissioned by London Sinfonietta
Remarks: Paul Klee
Duration (min): 9
Dedication: Dedicated "to my friends the London Sinfonietta on the occasion of their tenth birthday"
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World Première
Location: Queen Elizabeth Hall London / Great Britain
Date: 24.01.1978
Orchestra: London Sinfonietta
Conductor: Harrison Birtwistle
Work Introduction

Birtwistle composed this piece for the London Sinfonietta; he also conducted its first performance. It has become a standard work in the ensemble repertoire everywhere in the decades since then – and no wonder; it is highly appealing, playful and diversified instrumental theatre music [...]

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