Harrison Birtwistle (1934 - 2022)

[kernelbogey]

Gawain is on R3 on Saturday 28 May.

[Bryn]

Gawain is on R3 on Saturday 28 May.

The online listing for this broadcast is rather short on information about the circumstances of this performance. Neither date nor venue is cited. Does anyone here know more about such matters? I have not listened yet. so do not know whether such matters were covered in the presentation.

Now that I am listening to it, I find it was announced as the 2014 Barbican performance, i.e. a repeat, though with a different presentation Service.

[Mandryka]

This is sad news indeed. My favourites among his work are The Triumph of Time, Earth Dances and the deliberately provocative Proms piece, Panic.

I'd suggest the excellent The Cry of Anubis to anyone looking for a way in. I found the hardest listen to be Theseus Game which remains impenetrable.

Bumped into HB (almost literally) in the Albert Hall corridor prior to a CBSO/Rattle Prom performance of The Triumph of Time and again in the RFH when he was in the audience for a BPO/Abbado Mahler 5.

I just can't resist posting this, because there's a lesson in it. For me, Theseus Games was immediately attractive, seductive!