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. 1.
    Nenia: The Death of Orpheus
    12:51
  2. 2.
    Orpheus Elegies: No. 1
    2:09
  3. 3.
    Orpheus Elegies: No. 2
    1:02
  4. 4.
    Orpheus Elegies: No. 11. Sonnet I
    2:51
  5. 5.
    Orpheus Elegies: No. 5
    1:10
  6. 6.
    Orpheus Elegies: No. 14. Sonnet III
    1:32
  7. 7.
    Orpheus Elegies: No. 12
    0:38
  8. 8.
    Orpheus Elegies: No. 25
    0:50
  9. 9.
    Orpheus Elegies: No. 20. Sonnet V
    1:59
  10. 10.
    Fantasia III
    1:53
  11. 11.
    Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: I. There’s a Better Shine
    0:47
  12. 12.
    Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: II. My Friend Tree
    0:40
  13. 13.
    Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: III. Along the River
    1:13
  14. 14.
    Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: IV. Hear Where the Snow-Grave Is
    0:53
  15. 15.
    Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: V. How White the Gulls
    1:33
  16. 16.
    Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: VI. My Life By Water
    2:12
  17. 17.
    Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: VII. Paul When the Leaves Fall
    1:09
  18. 18.
    Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: VIII. O Late Fall Marsh
    0:39
  19. 19.
    Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: IX. Sleep’s Dream
    1:27
  20. 20.
    Frieze I
    3:54
  21. 21.
    Lullaby
    1:53
  22. 22.
    Songs by Myself: I. O Light Set the Flame in Amber
    0:57
  23. 23.
    Songs by Myself: II. I Lean Against a Shade
    1:29
  24. 24.
    Songs by Myself: III. Cold Statements
    1:36
  25. 25.
    Songs by Myself: IV. Steps
    1:30
  26. 26.
    Songs by Myself: V. The Silence Before Light
    2:19
  27. 27.
    Interview
    3:14
  28. 28.
    Cantus Iambeus
    6:22

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