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Sean Shibe: Vesper album review – ever-imaginative guitar virtuoso brings mind-expanding flights of fancy

This thoughtfully curated programme of work by three British composers explores the guitar’s expressive potential, and new arrangements of Harrison Birtwistle’s piano originals are a revelation

The Guardian - UK

The RSC’s music cuts fundamentally diminish our experience of theatre

From Mendelssohn’s scherzo in A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Grieg’s Morning Mood from Peer Gynt, music composed for the theatre was never just ‘incidental’

The Guardian - UK

Elgar Howarth obituary

Conductor of contemporary opera and and trailblazing force in the tradition-bound world of brass band music

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BCMG/Paterson review – amplification dulls both Eötvös and Birtwistle

The late Peter Eötvös’s slender and nuanced Secret Kiss didn’t hold the attention; works by Julian Anderson, Lisa Illean and Rebecca Saunders fared better in this Birmingham Contemporary Music Group concert

The Guardian - UK

Alexander Goehr obituary

Influential composer of instrumental and orchestral works who was a music producer for the BBC and professor at Cambridge

The Guardian - UK

Alexander Goehr: composer who brought European avant garde sensibilities to stuffy 50s Britain

Goehr, who has died, was a founder of the New Music Manchester group with Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies, revolutionising the parochial world of British music

The Guardian - UK

Sir Andrew Davis obituary

One of Britain’s greatest conductors widely admired for leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms

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Nash Ensemble: A Birtwistle Celebration review – an intense and poetic tribute

The Nash and BBC Singers selected poignant vocal and instrumental works in memory of the late composer, as well as the premiere of a new Simon Holt work honouring sculptor Richard Serra

The Guardian - UK

Harrison Birtwistle tribute – music of power and beauty as Sinfonietta remember a great friendship

This London Sinfonietta tribute concert, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, was a poignant occasion that showcased both the excoriating power and tranquillity of Birtwistle’s music

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Australian World Orchestra/Mehta; Harrison Birtwistle Day – review

A lifetime’s experience tells as Zubin Mehta graces the Proms along with Australia’s finest, while a stellar tag team of friends and colleagues pay tribute to Harrison Birtwistle

The Guardian - UK

The top brass: Ahead of two dedicated Proms, can brass bands finally move beyond the cliches?

It’s been 33 years since the last Prom dedicated to brass band music, while Gavin Higgins’ concerto for Brass band and orchestra is the first Proms commission of its kind. It’s time to forget that Hovis ad and celebrate the banding world

The Guardian - UK

BCMG, Uproar review – Bristol New Music festival closes with sparks, ssshh-ing and smiles

Two concerts from the festival’s fourth day included tributes to Oliver Knussen and Harrison Birtwistle alongside intriguing electronic shapeshifting from a contemporary ensemble based in Wales

The Guardian - UK

The world lost 6 revolutionary composers within a year. How LA, and only LA, is paying tribute

LOS ANGELES — When Harrison Birtwistle died last week at 87, he became the sixth pioneering composer who came to prominence in the 1960s that we lost in less than nine months. This uncompromising British modernist, along with Holland's most important composer, Louis Andriessen, and Americans Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb,…

Los Angeles Times

Letter: Harrison Birtwistle obituary

Stephen Baron writes: His individuality as a composer was relected in his dress

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‘His great gift was to see the world as a place of wonder’ – in praise of Harrison Birtwistle

The Observer’s classical music critic pays tribute to a composer whose exacting work was hard-won, but who marvelled at everything from homegrown plums to Dusty Springfield

Asharq Al-Awsat

Groundbreaking Composer Harrison Birtwistle Dies at 87

Harrison Birtwistle, the creator of daringly experimental modern music who was recognized as one of Britain’s greatest contemporary composers, has died at 87. Birtwistle’s publisher, Boosey & Hawkes, said he died Monday at his home in Mere, southwest England.

The Guardian - UK

Harrison Birtwistle: an utterly distinctive composer who wrote music of delicate beauty

Our chief classical critic knew Birtwistle, who died this morning, for more than 40 years. He pays tribute to a musician whose creativity and imagination knew no bounds

The Independent UK

Groundbreaking composer Harrison Birtwistle dies at 87

Harrison Birtwistle, widely recognized as one of Britain’s greatest contemporary composers, has died at 87

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Sir Harrison Birtwistle obituary

Composer renowned as a great modernist whose music is imbued with stubborn power and a sense of unreachable mystery

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Composer Harrison Birtwistle dies aged 87

The prolific British composer drew on poetry and folklore for his uncompromising but lyrical music. A Proms’ premiere, Panic, brought him national notoriety

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