Songs 1970-2006
Album by Sir Harrison Birtwistle & Alice Rossi & Das Neue Ensemble & Stefan Asbury & Kuss Quartet & Theater und Medien Hannover Hochschule für Musik
Songs 1970-2006 is a compilation album of vocal works by English composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle, released in 2006. The collection surveys Birtwistle's approach to vocal writing within the contemporary classical idiom, characterised by complex rhythmic interplay, austere timbres and a modernist harmonic language, and it documents developments in his compositional style across several decades of his career.
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- 1.Nenia: The Death of Orpheus12:51
- 2.Orpheus Elegies: No. 12:09
- 3.Orpheus Elegies: No. 21:02
- 4.Orpheus Elegies: No. 11. Sonnet I2:51
- 5.Orpheus Elegies: No. 51:10
- 6.Orpheus Elegies: No. 14. Sonnet III1:32
- 7.Orpheus Elegies: No. 120:38
- 8.Orpheus Elegies: No. 250:50
- 9.Orpheus Elegies: No. 20. Sonnet V1:59
- 10.Fantasia III1:53
- 11.Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: I. There’s a Better Shine0:47
- 12.Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: II. My Friend Tree0:40
- 13.Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: III. Along the River1:13
- 14.Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: IV. Hear Where the Snow-Grave Is0:53
- 15.Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: V. How White the Gulls1:33
- 16.Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: VI. My Life By Water2:12
- 17.Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: VII. Paul When the Leaves Fall1:09
- 18.Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: VIII. O Late Fall Marsh0:39
- 19.Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: IX. Sleep’s Dream1:27
- 20.Frieze I3:54
- 21.Lullaby1:53
- 22.Songs by Myself: I. O Light Set the Flame in Amber0:57
- 23.Songs by Myself: II. I Lean Against a Shade1:29
- 24.Songs by Myself: III. Cold Statements1:36
- 25.Songs by Myself: IV. Steps1:30
- 26.Songs by Myself: V. The Silence Before Light2:19
- 27.Interview3:14
- 28.Cantus Iambeus6:22













