Lebrecht Weekly | Album of the Year
No-one knew what to expect of 2022. In January, masked or locked down, we gazed into crystal balls of mortality. The chamber music of Harrison…
Browsing: Harrison Birtwistle
Lebrecht Weekly: Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber works (BIS)
Into every musical life, a little Birtwistle must fall. Do not read anything pejorative into that statement. I have been smitten by the British composer’s…
Beethoven, Birtwistle: A bag of bagatelles
England’s most adventurous living composer never bothered much with the piano. Harrison Birtwistle started out on the clarinet, composed operas in his head and wrote…
