Sir Harrison Birtwistle
*15.07.1934

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Bow Down
13.06.2012, Spitalfields (GB)
Bow Down
12.07.2012, Suffolk (GB)
Bow Down
14.07.2012, Suffolk (GB)
Pulse Sampler
05.09.2012, Luzern (CH)
Cortege
08.09.2012, Luxembourg (L)

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Sir Harrison Birtwistle - Works

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Work — out of 83
Title Year
... agm ... | for 16 voices and 3 instrumental ensembles 1979
An die Musik | for soprano and chamber ensemble 1988
Antiphonies | for piano and orchestra 1992
Antiphonies from the Moonkeeper | for trumpet –
Berceuse de Jeanne | for piano –
Bow Down | Improvised music theatre | for 5 actors and 4 musicians 1977
Cantata | for soprano and instruments 1969
Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum | for ensemble 1978
Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum | for chamber orchestra 1978
Carmen Paschale | Motet | for choir and organ 1965
Chorale from a Toy Shop | for flute, oboe or clarinet, clarinet or cor anglais, [...] 1967
Chorale from a Toy Shop | for 2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba | 2nd version 1967
5 Chorale Preludes | for soprano, A clarinet, basset horn and Bb bass clarinet –
Chorales | for orchestra 1963
Chronometer | for 2 asynchronous 4-track tapes 1972
Clarinet Quintet | for clarinet and string quartet 1980
Cortege | for 14 musicians 2007
Deowa | for soprano and clarinet in Bb 1983
Dinah and Nick's Love Song | for 3 melody instruments and harp 1970
5 Distances for 5 Instruments | for flute, oboe, clarinet in B flat, bassoon an [...] 1992
Down by the Greenwood Side | A Dramatic Pastoral 1969
Duets for Storab | for 2 flutes 1983
Earth Dances | for orchestra 1986
Endless Parade | for trumpet, strings and vibraphone 1987
Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments | for soprano and instruments 1964
Epilogue | "Full fathom five" | for baritone, horn, 4 trombones and 6 tam-tams [...] 1972
Fanfare for Glyndebourne | for brass ensemble and timpani 1994
The Fields of Sorrow | for 2 sopranos, 8-part choir and instruments 1972
For O, for O, the Hobby-Horse is Forgot | Ceremony | for 6 percussionists 1976
Gawain | Opera in 2 acts | 1st version 1991
Gawain | Opera in 2 acts | 2nd version 1994
Gawain | Opera in 2 acts | 3rd version 1994
Gawain's Journey | for orchestra 1991
Grimethorpe Aria | for brass ensemble 1973
Hector's Dawn | for piano 1987
Hoquetus David | for chamber ensemble 1969
An Imaginary Landscape | for brass, percussion and double basses 1971
Linoi | for clarinet in A and piano 1968
Love Cries | from the opera "The Second Mrs. Kong" | for soprano, mezzo-soprano [...] 1999
Machaut à ma manière | for orchestra 1988
The Mark of the Goat | Dramatic cantata | for actors, singer, 2 choirs, 3 instr [...] –
The Mask of Orpheus | Opera in 3 acts 1984
Melencolia I | for clarinet, harp and 2 string orchestras 1976
Mercure | Poses plastiques | op. posth. | for chamber orchestra 1980
Meridian | for mezzo-soprano, 2 female choirs and instruments 1971
Monody for Corpus Christi | for soprano, flute, violin and horn 1959
3 Movements | for string quartet 1993
3 Movements with Fanfares | for chamber orchestra 1964
Narration: A Description of the Passing of a Year | for a cappella chorus 1963
Nenia: The Death of Orpheus | for soprano, 3 bass clarinets, crotales and piano 1970
Night | for soprano, 2 clarinets, viola, violoncello and double bass 1992
Nomos | for 4 amplified instruments and orchestra 1968
On the Sheer Threshold of the Night | Madrigal | for 4 soli and 12 voice choir 1980
La Plage: 8 Arias of Remembrance | for soprano and 5 instruments 1972
4 Poems by Jaan Kaplinski | for soprano and 13 instruments 1991
Précis | for piano 1960
Prologue | for tenor and 7 instruments 1971
Pulse Field | Frames, Pulse and Interruptions - improvised ballet | for 6 dance [...] 1977
Pulse Sampler | for oboe and claves 1981
Punch and Judy | A tragical comedy or comical tragedy in 1 act 1967
Refrains and Choruses | for wind quintet 1957
Ring a Dumb Carillon | for soprano (+ susp cyms), clarinet in Bb and percussion 1965
Sad Song | for piano 1971
Salford Toccata | for brass ensemble 1989
The Second Mrs Kong | Opera in 2 acts 1994
Secret Theatre | for chamber ensemble 1984
3 Settings of Celan | for soprano, 2 clarinets, viola, violoncello and double b [...] 1994
3 Settings of Celan | for soprano, 2 clarinets and viol consort 1994
Silbury Air | for chamber ensemble 1977
Some Petals from my Twickenham Herbarium | for piccolo, clarinet in Bb, glocken [...] 1969
Songs by Myself | for soprano and chamber ensemble 1984
4 Songs of Autumn | for soprano and string quartet 1988
Tenebrae | for soprano, 2 clarinets, viola, violoncello and double bass 1992
Tombeau in memoriam Igor Stravinsky | for flute, clarinet, harp and string quar [...] 1971
Tragoedia | for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, harp and string quartet 1965
The Triumph of Time | for orchestra 1972
Ut heremita solus | for chamber ensemble 1969
Verses | for clarinet and piano 1965
Verses for Ensembles | for 3 instrumental ensembles 1969
White and Light | for soprano, 2 clarinets, viola, violoncello and double bass 1989
Words Overheard | for soprano and chamber orchestra 1985
The World is Discovered | for chamber ensemble 1961
Yan Tan Tethera | A Mechanical Pastoral 1984