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Musica Viva Vol.29: Birtwistle - Responses, Gawain’s Journey | Neos Music NEOS11729

Musica Viva Vol.29: Birtwistle - Responses, Gawain’s Journey

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Label: Neos Music

Cat No: NEOS11729

Barcode: 4260063117299

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 20th September 2019

Contents

Artists

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Conductor

Stefan Asbury

Works

Birtwistle, Harrison

Gawain's Journey
Responses. Sweet Disorder

Artists

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Conductor

Stefan Asbury

About

Sir Harrison Birtwistle is doubtless one of the most important and influential British composers of the last decades.

This CD brings together two works with a strong link to the tradition: Responses is a piano concerto that, in accordance with historical convention, focuses on the dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra. Birtwistle’s second large-scale opera, Gawain, deals with the legend of King Arthur.

In the orchestral version, Gawain’s Journey, which was published the same year the opera premiered, the voice parts are allocated to various instruments. Instead of merely cobbling together selected passages into an orchestral suite, Birtwistle composed them into a standalone orchestral work of immense musical power.

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