Harrison Birtwistle
Tom Service introduces an 80th birthday concert for Harrison Birtwistle by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Oliver Knussen. Plus Composers' Rooms: Mark-Anthony Turnage.
Tom Service introduces an 80th birthday concert for Sir Harrison Birtwistle.
Oliver Knussen conducts the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in an all-Birtwistle programme, including early works Tragoedia, Cantata and Silbury Air, plus Four Poems by Jaan Kaplinski and the more recent Fantasia upon all the Notes.
And Sara Mohr-Pietsch continues her Composers' Rooms series with a visit to the London home of Mark-Anthony Turnage.
Harrison Birtwistle:
Cantata *
Tragoedia
Fantasia on all the notes
4 Poems by Jaan Kaplinski *
Silbury Air
Katrine Baerts (soprano) *
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Oliver Knussen (conductor).
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Composers' Rooms: No.12 Mark-Anthony Turnage
Duration: 12:06
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- Sat 19 Jul 2014 22:30麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3
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