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BBC Proms 2014 Saturday Matinee 4
A Portrait of Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Part of the Proms 2015 Series
Add to my Calendar 06-09-2014 15:00 06-09-2014 17:00 36 BBC Proms 2014 Saturday Matinee 4 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 UKs leading new music ensembles, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. The groups relationship with Birtwistles music is a long one, and here it performs three of the composers 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 Birtwistles music. Cadogan Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
Sloane Square, Belgravia
London
SW1X 9DQ
England
Programme
Harrison Birtwistle – Verses for Ensembles
Harrison Birtwistle – Dinah and Nick’s Love Song
Harrison Birtwistle – Meridian
Performers
Christine Rice – mezzo-soprano
Oliver Knussen – Conductor
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Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
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Programme Note
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 UKs leading new music ensembles, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
The groups relationship with Birtwistles music is a long one, and here it performs three of the composers 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 Birtwistles music.