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CATALOGUE NR: CCS18598
RECORD LABEL: Channel Classics
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.23 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 24-May-2002

COMPOSER: Astor Piazzolla  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: It Takes Two
TRACKS: Music by Piazzolla / Janacek / Birtwistle / Gardel / Andriessen / Kurtag / Bartok / Vaughan Williams / Veldhuis / Piazzolla / Morini.
ARTISTS: Bart Schneemann   Daniel Raiskin   Alfredo Marcucci   Peter Prommel

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CATALOGUE NR: CLASSCD312
RECORD LABEL: Classico
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.67 including VAT, or £ 11.02 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Gyorgy Ligeti  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Avantgarde Favourites of the 20th Century
TRACKS: Chamber Concerto for 13 instruments(Ligeti). Concerto for flute oboe clarinet horn trumpet (Webern). Octandre (Varese). Works by Lutoslawski / Takemitsu / Birtwistle.
ORCHESTRA: Aarhus Sinfonietta

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CATALOGUE NR: 102045
RECORD LABEL: Arthaus Musik
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: £ 17.60 including VAT, or £ 15.31 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 31-Oct-2005

COMPOSER: Luciano Berio  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Leaving Home 7 - 20th Century Orchestral Music
TRACKS: excerpts from : Laborintus II (Berio). Symphony No.8 (Henze). Gradstein fur Stefan (Kurtag). Ritual Fragment (Birtwistle). Drowned Out (Turnage). Flourish of Fireworks (Knussen). Zeitgestalten (Gubaidulina).
ORCHESTRA: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Simon Rattle

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 4:3 / Sound Format: PCM Stereo / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 50 minutes - Feb-2006 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: CDLX7139
RECORD LABEL: Epoch
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 8.79 including VAT, or £ 7.65 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 12-Apr-2004

COMPOSER: Melinda Maxwell  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Sextet for Strings 'From Tree to Tree'. Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet. 'Pelagos' for String Trio. Songlines and Cadences (Maxwell). Music for Mel and Nora (Simon Bainbridge). Nine Orpheus Elegies - from 26 Orpheus Elegies (Birtwistle). Sonata da Chiesa I 'The Annunciation' (Hong). From a distant shore (Saxton).
ARTISTS: Melinda Maxwell   Michael Dussek   Nicholas Rodwell   Clio Gould

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded St Paul's Church Rusthall Kent 7-Jul-1999 and Henry Wood Hall London 1-2-Aug-2004

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CATALOGUE NR: CC0019
RECORD LABEL: Clarinet Classics
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.23 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-Jun-1998

COMPOSER: Peter Maxwell Davies  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Hymnos
TRACKS: Hymnos. Sub tuam Protectionem. Stevie's Ferry to Hoy (Maxwell Davies). Linoi. Verses. Precis. Oockooing Bird. Clarinet Quintet (Birtwistle). Paraphrase (Goehr).
ARTISTS: Roger Heaton   Kreutzer Qt   Stephen Pruslin  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 'A fascinating disc, powerfully performed, from an enterprising label' Sunday Times

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CATALOGUE NR: 5861872
RECORD LABEL: EMI British Composers
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 5.33 including VAT, or £ 4.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 04-Oct-2004

COMPOSER: Peter Maxwell Davies  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Revelation & Fall. Leopardi Fragments. Five Piano Pieces op.2 (Maxwell Davies). Tragoedia (Birtwistle).
CONDUCTOR: Lawrence Foster
ARTISTS: Pierrot Players   Mary Thomas   John Ogdon   Melos Ensemble

- Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: CC0052
RECORD LABEL: Clarinet Classics
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.23 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 30-Oct-2006

COMPOSER: Peter Maxwell Davies  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: A Portrait of Alan Hacker
TRACKS: includes - Hymnos (Maxwell Davies). Four Interludes for a Tragedy (Birtwistle). Seven Brightnesses (Maxwell Davies). Three Nocturnes (Birtwistle). Clarinet Quartet No.2 in C minor op.4 (Crusell). Grand Duo Concertant J204 op.48 (von Weber).
ARTISTS: Alan Hacker      

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CATALOGUE NR: 3984268672
RECORD LABEL: Teldec
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.23 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 11-Feb-2002

COMPOSER: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
TITLE: Pulse Shadows
TRACKS: Fantasia I. Thread suns - Fadensonnen. Frieze I. White and Light - Weiss und Leicht. Fantasia II. Psalm. Fantasia III. With Letter and Clock - Mit Brief und Uhr. Frieze II. An Eye open - Ein Auge offen. Fantasia IV. Todtnauberg. Frieze III. Tenebrae. Fantasia V. Night - Nacht. Todesfuge - Frieze IV. Give the Word.
CONDUCTOR: Reinbert de Leeuw
ARTISTS: Arditti Qt   Nash Ensemble   Claron McFadden  

- Apr-2002 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Mar-2002 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Birtwistle's daring blend of voice and mixed ensemble is a modern marvel - unmissable' - Gramophone 2002 Award Winner - Penguin Guide 3 star 'the eighteen sections, most of them bried, far from feeling fragmentary, hang together in a kaleidoscope of sharp inspiration, superbly realized here by all the performers'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4770702
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon 2021
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.23 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 09-Aug-2004

COMPOSER: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
TRACKS: Theseus Game. Earth Dances.
CONDUCTOR: Martyn Brabbins and Pierre Andre Valade
ARTISTS: Ensemble Modern      

- Oct-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide 3 star 'this can be warmly recommended to admirers of this unique and uncompromising composer'

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CATALOGUE NR: DXL1019
RECORD LABEL: Deux-Elles
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 11.25 including VAT, or £ 9.79 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 05-Jul-2001

COMPOSER: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
TITLE: Refrains and Choruses
TRACKS: Hoquetus Petrus - two flutes and piccolo trumpet. Refrains and Choruses - wind quintet. Hector's Dawn - solo piano. Duets for Storab - two flutes. Urlar. Stark pastoral. Fanfare with birds. White pastoral. From the church of lies. Crunluath. Linoi. Berceuse de Jeanne. Verses. Chorale from a Toy-Shop. Sad Song. An Interrupted Endless Melody I. II. III. Oockooing Bird. Five Distances.
ARTISTS: Galliard Ensemble   Richard Shaw    

- Oct-2001 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: NMCD009
RECORD LABEL: NMC
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 10.75 including VAT, or £ 9.35 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
TITLE: Melencolia I
TRACKS: Melencolia I. Meridian. Ritual Fragment.
ORCHESTRA: London Sinfonietta
CONDUCTOR: Oliver Knussen
ARTISTS: Mary King   Antony Pay   Michael Thompson   Christopher van Kampen

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'the NMC disc has the London Sinfonietta under Oliver Knussen revealing the composer at his most uncompromising'

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CATALOGUE NR: NMCD042S
RECORD LABEL: NMC
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.88 including VAT, or £ 4.25 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Sir Harrison Birtwistle  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Elegy (Maxwell). Pulse sampler (Birtwistle). Banshee (Holt).
ARTISTS: Melinda Maxwell   Richard Benjafield   Jan Gruithuyzen  

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CATALOGUE NR: KTC1130
RECORD LABEL: Etcetera
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.23 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-May-1998

COMPOSER: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
TITLE: Music for Wind and Percussion
TRACKS: Verses for Ensembles. Refrains and Choruses. For O For O the Hobby Horse is Forgot.
ARTISTS: Netherlands Wind Ensemble      

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CATALOGUE NR: OA1000D
RECORD LABEL: Opus Arte
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: £ 27.39 including VAT, or £ 23.82 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 29-Sep-2008

COMPOSER: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
TITLE: The Minataur - complete
ORCHESTRA: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
CONDUCTOR: Antonio Pappano
ARTISTS: John Tomlinson   Johan Reuter   Christine Rice   Philip Langridge

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 16:9 anamorphic / Sound Format: LPCM 2.0 5.0 DTS surround sound / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 175 minutes / Recorded: live at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden 2008 / Subtitles: English German Spanish Italian French - Dec-2008 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: NMCD050
RECORD LABEL: NMC
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 24.47 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
TITLE: Mask of Orpheus
ORCHESTRA: BBC Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Andrew Davis and Martyn Brabbins
ARTISTS: Jean Rigby   Alan Opie   Jon Garrison   Peter Bronder

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: '..a masterpiece..There are no weak links in the extremely fine cast.' Gramophone - Penguin Guide 3 star 'with Andrew Davis controlling his massed forces masterfully, helped by Martyn Brabbins as assistant conductor, the intense originality of a score dotted with havens of sheer beauty is never in doubt'

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CATALOGUE NR: MSVCD92013
RECORD LABEL: Metier
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 7.82 including VAT, or £ 6.80 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-May-1998

COMPOSER: Sir Harrison Birtwistle  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: 20th Century British Music For Clarinet And Piano
TRACKS: Verses (Birtwistle). Fantasia (Maconchy). Paraphrase on a Bird of Paradise (Wood). High Citadels (Hellawell). Capistrano Song (Butler). Sea/Air (Powers). A Year and Day (Crosse). Flighting (Berkeley). Scena III (Bennett).
ARTISTS: Kate Romano   Alan Hicks    

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CATALOGUE NR: NMCD088
RECORD LABEL: NMC
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 7.82 including VAT, or £ 6.80 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 11-Oct-2004

COMPOSER: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
TRACKS: The Triumph Of Time. Ritual Fragment. Gawain's Journey.
ORCHESTRA: Philharmonia Orchestra and London Sinfonietta
CONDUCTOR: Elgar Howarth

- Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: METCD1074
RECORD LABEL: Metronome
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.67 including VAT, or £ 11.02 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 11-Oct-2004

COMPOSER: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
TITLE: Complete Piano Works
TRACKS: The Axe Manual. Oockooing Bird. Sad Song. Berceuse de Jeanne. Precis. Hector's Dawn. Ostinato with Melody. Betty Freeman : Her Tanbgo. Saraband : The Kings Farewell. Harrison's Clocks.
ARTISTS: Nicolas Hodges   Claire Edwardes    

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CATALOGUE NR: NMCD138
RECORD LABEL: NMC
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 14.19 including VAT, or £ 12.34 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 14-May-2007

COMPOSER: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
TITLE: Punch and Judy - complete
ORCHESTRA: London Sinfonietta
CONDUCTOR: David Atherton
ARTISTS: Stephen Roberts   Phyllis Bryn Julson   Philip Langridge   John Tomlinson

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CATALOGUE NR: SRCD306
RECORD LABEL: Lyrita
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.58 including VAT, or £ 10.94 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 26-May-2008

COMPOSER: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
TRACKS: The Fields Of Sorrow for 2 sopranos chorus and 16 players. Verses For Ensembles for 5 woodwind 5 brass and 3 percussion. Nenia: The Death Of Orpheus a 'dramatic scene' for soprano 3 bass clarinets clarinet piano prepared piano and crotales.
ORCHESTRA: London Sinfonietta
CONDUCTOR: David Atherton
ARTISTS: Jane Manning   Alan Hacker   The Matrix  

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