Harrison Birtwistle

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Harrison Birtwistle

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Fires Of London, The Pierrot Players

British contemporary composer and academic
Born: 15th July 1934 Accrington, Lancashire, England
Died: 18th April 2022 Mere, Wiltshire, England
Appointed a knighthood in 1988.

ALBUMS

David Hackbridge Johnson, Michael Halstenson, Harrison Birtwistle, Edward Gregson, Robert Bernat, Jack Stamp, Ben Gaunt, Liz Lane - Grimethorpe Colliery Band*, Jack Stamp, Ben Palmer

Postcards From Grimethorpe (Music For Brass Band)

2023, CD, Album, Toccata Next

Harrison Birtwistle, The Nash Ensemble

Clare Hammond, Adams* / Birtwistle* / Copland* / Gubaidulina* / Hindemith* / Lachenmann* / Szymanowski*

2021, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, BIS

Nicolas Hodges - Ludwig van Beethoven, Harrison Birtwistle

A Bag Of Bagatelles

2020, CD, Album, WERGO,

Romantic/Contemporary

Harrison Birtwistle – Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks*

Musica Viva 29 : Responses, Sweet Disorder / Gawain's Journey

2018, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Neos

Sir Harrison Birtwistle*

Songs 1970-2006

2015, CD, Album, Toccata Classics

Harrison Birtwistle, Andrew Watts, Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, BBC Singers, London Sinfonietta, David Atherton

Angel Fighter, In Broken Images, Virelai (Sus Une Fontayne)

2015, CD, Album, NMC (3)

Harrison Birtwistle

2014, CD, Album, ECM Records, ECM Records, ECM New Series, ECM New Series

Harrison Birtwistle

The Moth Requiem

2014, CD, Album, Signum Classics

Oliver Knussen, Huw Watkins, Benjamin Britten, John Woolrich, Harrison Birtwistle, Mark-Anthony Turnage

2014, CD, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden,

Harrison Birtwistle, Arditti Quartet

Complete String Quartets

2012, CD, Album, æon,

Contemporary/Chamber Music/String Ensemble

Harrison Birtwistle

The Triumph Of Time

2012, CD, Decca

Joanna MacGregor - Harrison Birtwistle, Hugh Wood, Lou Harrison

Antiphonies & Harrison's Clocks / Piano Concertos

2011, 2xCD, Warner Classics,

Harrison Birtwistle, The Hallé*, Owen Slade, Ryan Wigglesworth

Night's Black Bird / The Shadow Of Night / The Cry Of Anubis

2011, CD, Album, NMC (3),

Birtwistle*, Jost*, Roger*, Arutiunian*, Philippe Schartz, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Jac van Steen

Trumpet Renaissance

2009, CD, Album, Chandos,

Harrison Birtwistle, Melinda Maxwell, Helen Tunstall, Andrew Watts

Orpheus Elegies : Three Bach Arias

2009, CD, Album, Oboe Classics

Birtwistle* - Harvey* - Alvarez* - Calix*

Recovery/Discovery: 40 Years Of Surround Electronic Music In The UK

2008, Hybrid, DualDisc, Multichannel, Sound and Music

Birtwistle* · Davies* · Wuorinen* · Kröll* · Essl* - ensemble recherche

Renaissance Transcriptions

2008, CD, Album, Dig, Coviello Contemporary

Harrison Birtwistle, Antonio Pappano, The Royal Opera Chorus*, Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Opera/Contemporary

Harrison Birtwistle, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Andrew Davis, Martyn Brabbins

The Mask Of Orpheus

2007, 3xCD, Album, NMC (3)

Harrison Birtwistle

The Triumph Of Time / Ritual Fragment / Gawain's Journey

2005, CDr, Album, Comp, NMC (3)

Harrison Birtwistle - Nicolas Hodges, Claire Edwardes

The Axe Manual, Complete Piano Works

2004, CD, Metronome Recordings

Harrison Birtwistle, Ensemble Modern

Theseus Game - Earth Dances

2004, CD, Album, Deutsche Grammophon,

Maxwell Davies* / Birtwistle* - Mary Thomas · Rosemary Phillips · Peter Maxwell Davies · John Carewe · John Ogdon · Lawrence Foster

Revelation And Fall · Leopardi Fragments · Five Pieces Op. 2 / Tragœdia

2004, CD, Comp, RE, RM, EMI Classics, EMI Classics,

Contemporary/Modern

Harrison Birtwistle

The Woman And The Hare

2002, CD, Black Box,

Harrison Birtwistle - Claron McFadden / Arditti Quartet / Nash Ensemble* / Reinbert de Leeuw

2001, CD, Teldec Classics,

Harrison Birtwistle

Harrison Birtwistle

2001, 2xCD, Comp, Decca

Harrison Birtwistle, The Galliard Ensemble

Refrains And Choruses

2001, CD, Deux-Elles

Birtwistle*, Banks*, Stockhausen*, Butterley*, Dallapiccola* ; Sydney Alpha Ensemble, David Stanhope

2000, CD, Comp, ABC Classics,

Contemporary/Impressionist

Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Cross, RIAS-Kammerchor

The Last Supper Guide (An Introduction To The Story And Music)

2000, CD, Promo, Glyndebourne,

Contemporary/Opera

Harrison Birtwistle - Joanna MacGregor

Harrison's Clocks

1999, CD, Album, SoundCircus,

Harrison Birtwistle, Cleveland* / Dohnányi* • Harle* / Clarvis* / Davis* / BBCSO*

Earth Dances • Panic

1996, CD, Album, Argo (2),

Harrison Birtwistle, The Royal Opera Chorus*, The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House*, Elgar Howarth

Contemporary/Opera

Harrison Birtwistle - Rosemary Hardy, Musikfabrik NRW*, Johannes Kalitzke

Secret Theatre - Ritual Fragment - Nenia: The Death Of Orpheus

1995, CD, Album, cpo

Birtwistle* - Christine Whittlesey, Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez

Secret Theatre · Tragœdia · Five Distances · 3 Settings Of Celan

Harrison Birtwistle, Joanna MacGregor, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Michael Gielen, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel

Antiphonies For Piano And Orchestra – Nomos – An Imaginary Landscape

1994, CD, Collins Classics,

Harrison Birtwistle, Philharmonia Orchestra, Elgar Howarth

The Triumph Of Time • Gawain's Journey

1993, CD, Album, Collins Classics

Harrison Birtwistle, London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen

Harrison Birtwistle

1993, CD, Album, NMC (3)

Harrison Birtwistle, Netherlands Wind Ensemble*, Percussion Group The Hague*

Music For Wind & Percussion

1992, CD, Etcetera (3)

Birtwistle* • Blake Watkins* • Maxwell Davies* - Håkan Hardenberger, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra*, Elgar Howarth

Endless Parade (Trumpet Concertos)

Sir Harrison Birtwistle* - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Peter Eötvös

Kurtág* / Birtwistle* / Grisey* - Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez

Messages De Feu Demoiselle R.V. Troussova / ...agm... / Modulations

Harrison Birtwistle - The London Sinfonietta*, Elgar Howarth

Secret Theatre · Silbury Air · Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum

György Kurtág / Harrison Birtwistle, Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez

Messages De Feu Demoiselle R.V. Troussova / ...agm...

Harrison Birtwistle - Phyllis Bryn-Julson ∙ Jan DeGaetani ∙ Philip Langridge ∙ Stephen Roberts (2) ∙ David Wilson-Johnson ∙ John Tomlinson (2) ∙ London Sinfonietta ∙ David Atherton

Grimethorpe Colliery Band*, Elgar Howarth - Toru Takemitsu, Harrison Birtwistle, Hans Werner Henze

Grimethorpe Special

Contemporary/Modern

Harrison Birtwistle

The Triumph Of Time / Chronometer

Modern Classical/Experimental

Harrison Birtwistle, London Sinfonietta / David Atherton (2), The Matrix (4) / Alan Hacker, Jane Manning

Verses For Ensembles / Nenia - The Death Of Orpheus / The Fields Of Sorrow

Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, David Bedford, Richard Orton

New Music From London

Schönberg* / Birtwistle*

Wind Quintet Op. 26 / Refrains And Choruses For Wind Quintet

Gordon Crosse, Hugh Wood, Harrison Birtwistle

Three British Composers

Harrison Birtwistle

Four Songs from the National Theatre Production of Volpone

7", EP, National Theatre

Schoenberg / Berio / Carter / Kurtág / Xenakis

1995, 5xCD, Comp, Erato,

Modern/Contemporary

APPEARANCES +

Harrison Birtwistle

2016, File, FLAC, Single, NMC (3),

Harrison Birtwistle

2016, File, FLAC, Single, NMC (3),

Harrison Birtwistle

2016, File, FLAC, Single, NMC (3)

Harrison Birtwistle

2016, File, FLAC, Single, NMC (3),

Harrison Birtwistle

2013, File, FLAC, Single, NMC (3),

Jaakko Kuusisto, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Pekka Kuusisto, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins

Pictured Within / Symphony

2023, CD, Album, BIS

The Conductor: Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon And Decca

2022, 84xCD, Comp + 4xBlu-ray + Box, Deutsche Grammophon, Deutsche Grammophon,

Baroque/Romantic/Modern/Neo-Classical/Twelve-tone/Opera

Tamara Stefanovich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Inna Faliks, Rebecca Mozo

Polonaise-Fantaisie: The Story Of A Pianist

2017, 2xCD, Album, Delos,

Spoken Word/Baroque/Contemporary/Romantic/Classical

Rob Keeley*, Caroline Balding & Ruth Ehrlich, Linda Merrick, John Turner (5), London Myriad, Pipers 3, Manchester Chamber Ensemble

Twists And Turns

2017, CD, Album, Metier, Metier Sound & Vision

Arditti String Quartet*

Gifts And Greetings

2016, CD, Winter & Winter

The Complete Erato Recordings

2015, 14xCD, Comp + Box, Erato,

Modern/Twelve-tone/Contemporary

2015, 44xCD, Album, Comp, Ltd, Deutsche Grammophon,

Legendary British Virtuoso

2012, 17xCD, RM + Box, Comp, EMI Classics, EMI Classics

Snapshots - Developments Of Contemporary Classical Music

2010, 10xCD, Comp + Box, Comp, Classico

Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series Vol. 2

2009, 3xCD, RE, RM + Box, Comp, WERGO

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

2009, Blu-ray + DVD-V, PAL, London Symphony Orchestra,

Neo-Romantic/Contemporary

Alarm Will Sound

20th Century Masterpieces - 100 Years Of Classical Music

2008, 16x CD, Box Set,

Neo-Romantic/Modern/Post-Modern/Contemporary

ensemble recherche

Re-naissance Transcriptions

2007, CD, Album, Coviello Contemporary,

Renaissance/Contemporary

Choir Of King's College, Cambridge*, Stephen Cleobury

On Christmas Day (New Carols From King's)

2005, 2xCD, EMI Classics

Discover Music Of The 20th Century

Modern/Impressionist/Neo-Romantic/Serial/Score/Contemporary/Post-Modern/Choral/Twelve-tone

Grimethorpe Colliery (UK Coal) Band*

The History of Brass Band Music - New Adventures

2004, CD, Album, Doyen

Music Of The 20th Century "Avantgarde"

2004, 4xCD, Membran International GmbH,

Modern/Contemporary

Melinda Maxwell

Composer & Oboist

2004, CD, Album, Dutton Digital

Schumann*, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Walter Weller

Symphony No. 3 (Rhenish) / Manfred Overture / Genoveva Overture

2002, CD, Comp, BBC Music,

Gramophone Awards 2002. The Winners

2002, CD, Comp, Gramophone Magazine

Gramophone Editor's Choice - March 2002

2002, CD, Promo, Smplr, Gramophone Magazine,

Bart Schneemann

2002, CD, Album, Dig, Channel Crossings,

The Top New CDs: Autumn 2001

2001, CD, Album, Comp, BBC Music Magazine,

Baroque/Modern/Contemporary/Romantic

2001, CD, edition zeitklang,

Notes For Pierre

2000, CDr, Ltd, Promo, South Bank Centre,

The Gallimaufry Ensemble

The Gallimaufry Ensemble

2000, CD, Album, Not On Label

Aarhus Sinfonietta*

Avantgarde Favourites Of The 20th Century

Alan Hacker • Tony Coe

Sun, Moon And Stars

1999, CD, Album, Zah Zah,

Contemporary/Contemporary Jazz

The Cleveland Orchestra

The Building Of An Orchestra

Constructions I-IV

Abstract/Musique Concrète/Experimental

Gramophone Awards 98

1998, CD, Comp, Smplr, Gramophone Magazine,

Roger Heaton, Stephen Pruslin, Kreutzer String Quartet*

1998, CD, Album, Clarinet Classics,

John Harle ･ John Lenehan ･ Sarah Leonard

John Harle's Saxophone Songbook

1995, CD, Album, Unicorn-Kanchana

Arditti String Quartet*

Arditti String Quartet 1974-1994

1994, CD, Comp, Montaigne

Arditti String Quartet*

1994, CD, Album, RE, Montaigne,

A 70th Anniversary Celebration

Renaissance/Baroque/Modern/Contemporary/Romantic

Trio Di Clarone Mit Frimmer*, Richardson*, Blasius*

Notturni, Stravinsky / Elegy for JFK etc.

1993, CD, Album, EMI Classics, EMI Classics,

Baroque/Romantic/Modern

1984, LP, nato, nato,

Modern/Contemporary

Hymn To The Sun

1977, LP, L'Oiseau-Lyre

A Garland For Dr. K.

1976, LP, Universal Edition, Interdisc (4),

Post-Modern/Contemporary

Piano Music By Twentieth Century British Composers

2xCD, Album, Comp, Naxos Educational

Oliver Knussen, Royal Academy Of Music Manson Ensemble

Igor Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale

2017, CD, Linn Records

Peter Zinovieff

Electronic Calendar - The EMS Tapes

2015, 2xCD, Comp, Space Age Recordings

New Music Collections: Choral

2014, CD, Album, Comp, Promo, NMC (3),

New Music Collections: Electronic

2014, CD, Album, Comp, Promo, NMC (3)

New Music Collections: Orchestral

2014, CD, Album, Comp, Promo, NMC (3)

Wittener Tage Für Neue Kammermusik 2011

2011, 2xCD, Comp + DVD, Comp, Kulturforum Witten

Box 16: Konzertmusik - Musik Für Chöre

2008, 5xCD, Comp + Box, RCA Red Seal, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Deutscher Musikrat,

Choral/Contemporary

Musik Für Chöre - Rundfunkchöre 1975-2000

2008, CD, Comp, RCA Red Seal, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Deutscher Musikrat

Wittener Tage Für Neue Kammermusik 2008

2008, 2xCD, Comp, Fat, Kulturforum Witten,

Contemporary/Experimental

London Mozart Players Brass Ensemble*, Paul Archibald

Hodie Gloriosa: On This Glorious Day

2007, CD, Album, Brass Classics

Alan Hacker - A Portrait Of

2006, CD, Album, Clarinet Classics,

New Stock (NMC Sampler & Catalogue)

Unknown Public 13: Changing Platforms - 30 Years Of The Contemporary Music Network

2001, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Unknown Public

A Round-up Of NMC

1998, CD, Comp, Smplr, NMC (3)

Kate Romano & Alan Hicks

20th Century Music From The British Isles For Clarinet And Piano

1998, CD, Album, Metier

1997, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Promo, Boosey & Hawkes

1997, CD, Comp, Classic CD,

Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 1996

1996, 2xCD, Kulturforum Witten

1996, CD, Comp, NMC (3)

Classic CD - 74

1996, CD, Comp, Classic CD,

Forum Clássica 5

1996, CD, Comp, Grupo Forum,

Melinda Maxwell, Richard Benjafield, Jan Gruithuyzen

Birtwistle · Maxwell · Holt

1996, CD, Album, NMC (3)

The Sunday Times Modern Classics

1994, CD, Album, Comp, EMI Classics,

Modern/Contemporary

1993, CD, Comp, NMC (3)

Mary Wiegold, The Composers Ensemble, Dominic Muldowney

Mary Wiegold's Songbook

1991, CD, NMC (3),

EMS Synthi And The Composer

1971, LP, Comp, Promo, Electronic Music Studios (London) Limited,

Experimental/Modern Classical/Abstract/Soundtrack/Special Effects/Spoken Word

Piano Music By Twentieth Century British Composers

Unity Gain Temple

Summer Syncretasm!

2009, 101xFile, MP3, Mixed, Unofficial, 320, Spannered,

2006, 3xCDr, Comp, Unofficial, Creel Pone, Creel Pone, Creel Pone,

Musique Concrète/Spoken Word/Abstract/Modern Classical/Experimental/Post-Modern