Birtwistle - Orpheus Elegies
Melinda Maxwell (oboe), Helen Tunstall (harp), Andrew Watts (counter-tenor) with Claire Seaton (soprano), William Stafford and Tom Verity (clarinets/bass clarinets) & Ben Fullbrook (marimba)
The range of musical processes and the power with which Birtwistle invest the writing is extraordinary. The pieces seem like snapshots from different perspectives of some vast, barely graspable... — More…
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Birtwistle: Orpheus Elegies
- Melinda Maxwell, Helen Tunstall, Andrew Watts
Johann Sebastian Bach, Harrison Birtwistle: Ich Hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21
- Melinda Maxwell, Claire Seaton, Helen Tunstall, William Stafford, Ben Fullbrook
Johann Sebastian Bach, Harrison Birtwistle: Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben, BWV 102: Weh der Seele, die den Schaden
- Melinda Maxwell, Andrew Watts, Helen Tunstall, William Stafford, Tom Verity, Ben Fullbrook
Johann Sebastian Bach, Harrison Birtwistle: Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172: Komm, lass mich nicht länger warten
- Melinda Maxwell, Claire Seaton, Andrew Watts, William Stafford, Tom Verity, Helen Tunstall, Ben Fullbrook