Music for Wind & Percussion

Album by Sir Harrison Birtwistle & Nederlands Blazers Ensemble & Slagwerk Den Haag

Music for Wind & Percussion is a chamber work by English composer Harrison Birtwistle, composed in 1960. The piece uses stark timbral contrasts, jagged wind motifs and driven percussion textures with complex rhythmic layering, and it represents an early exploration of the modernist, texturally focused orchestral language Birtwistle further developed in his later career.
First released: 1992

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Verses for Ensembles
    23:27
  2. 2.
    Refrains and Choruses
    8:26
  3. 3.
    For O, For O, the Hobby-Horse is Forgot
    20:21

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