Sir Harrison Birtwistle
*15.07.1934

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Gawain's Journey
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Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Gawain's Journey | for orchestra

Work Details
Year of composition: 1991
Scored for: for orchestra
Composer: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Instrumentation: 3 3 3 3 - 4 3 3 1 - timp, perc(4), hp, cimb, euph, str(24 0 9 9 9)
Duration (min): 25

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World Première
Location: Wien / Austria
Date: 21.10.1991
Orchestra: English Northern Philharmonia
Conductor: Elgar Howarth
Work Introduction

The 25’ work Gawain’s Journey is derived from Birtwistle’s second largescale opera, Gawain, although the concert work is not simply a concentrated version of the narrative of the stage work. Rather, the extracts chosen and combined to create Gawain’s Journey do not necessarily follow [...]

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