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Harrison Birtwistle

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Harrison Birtwistle

Harrison Birtwistle has been played on NTS in shows including PAN, featured first on 23 March 2020. Songs played include Punch And Judy, Birthday Song and The Moth Requiem.

Harrison Birtwistle is one of England's foremost living composers.

Born Accrington, 15th July 1934, died Mere Wiltshire, 18th April 2022. He studied Clarinet and Composition at the Royal Manchester College of Music from 1953 where, along with fellow students Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr, John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth, he formed the New Music Manchester group which was dedicated to performing avant-garde and contemporary compositions.

While using mostly conventional instrumental resources, Birtwistle has radically altered the…

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Punch And Judy
Harrison Birtwistle, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Jan DeGaetani, Philip Langridge, Stephen Roberts, David Wilson-Johnson, John Tomlinson, London Sinfonietta, David Atherton
Decca1980
Punch And Judy
Harrison Birtwistle, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Jan DeGaetani, Philip Langridge, Stephen Roberts, David Wilson-Johnson, John Tomlinson, London Sinfonietta, David AthertonDecca1980
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Birthday Song
Peter Zinovieff, Harrison Birtwistle
Space Age Recordings2015
Birthday Song
Peter Zinovieff, Harrison BirtwistleSpace Age Recordings2015
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The Moth Requiem
Harrison Birtwistle
Signum Classics2014
The Moth Requiem
Harrison BirtwistleSignum Classics2014
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Grimethorpe Aria
Harrison Birtwistle
Decca1977
Grimethorpe Aria
Harrison BirtwistleDecca1977
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