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Along with fellow Lancastrian composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sir Harrison Birtwistle celebrates his 80th birthday this year. The Proms marks the occasion with a concert from one of the UK's leading new music ensembles, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. The group's relationship with Birtwistle's music is a long one, and here it performs three of the composer's classic early works. Each explores the spatial dramatisation of music, playing aural games with the audience and exposing them to intriguing and unfamiliar textures, while never neglecting the ever-unfolding melody that is at the core of all Birtwistle's music. There will be no interval. Finish time approx. 16:30

Cast/Performers

Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)

Creatives/Company

Company(s): Exaudi, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Conductor: Oliver Knussen

Proms Saturday Matinee 4: A Portrait of Sir Harrison Birtwistle

Proms Saturday Matinee 4: A Portrait of Sir Harrison Birtwistle (Concert) production archive for QTIX code T01014206919. Details of all Proms Saturday Matinee 4: A Portrait of Sir Harrison Birtwistle archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S325354008

Archive Listings

6 Sep 14

Cadogan Hall
Inner London, Greater London
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