Harrison Birtwistle Celebration
Tom Service presents a concert given at the Wigmore Hall by the Nash Ensemble celebrating the composing career of Harrison Birtwistle. Plus a UK premiere from Elliott Carter.
Tom Service celebrates the forty-five year career of one of Britain's most distinguished composers, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, in a concert recorded at the Wigmore Hall in March. Plus a UK premiere from centenarian, Elliott Carter
Birtwistle: Five Distances for Five Instruments
Birtwistle: Oboe Quartet
Birtwistle: Duets for Storab
Carter: Poems of Louis Zukofsky (UK première)
Birtwistle: Tragoedia
Nash Ensemble
Claire Booth (soprano)
Lionel Friend (conductor).
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