Proms Saturday Matinee 4: A Portrait of Sir Harrison Birtwistle

6 Sep 2014, Cadogan Hall

15:00 Sat 6 Sep 2014 Next Event

Proms 2014 Proms Saturday Matinee 4: A Portrait of Sir Harrison Birtwistle

15:00 Sat 6 Sep 2014 Cadogan Hall

Sir Harrison Birtwistle turns 80 this summer. The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group celebrates with a performance of three of the composer鈥檚 classic early works. Verses for Ensembles, Dinah and Nick鈥檚 Love Song and Meridian all explore intriguing and unfamiliar textures, but never neglect the ever-unfolding melody that is the core of all Birtwistle鈥檚 music.

Programme

- - Harrison Birtwistle
  - Verses for Ensembles(26 mins)
  - Dinah and Nick's Love Song(6 mins)
  - Meridian(27 mins)

Performers

Composers

Harrison Birtwistle

About this event

Along with fellow Lancastrian composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sir Harrison Birtwistle celebrates his 80th birthday this year. The Proms marks the occasion with a concert from one of the UK鈥檚 leading new music ensembles, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.

The group鈥檚 relationship with Birtwistle鈥檚 music is a long one, and here it performs three of the composer鈥檚 classic early works. Each explores the spatial dramatisation of music, playing aural games with the audience and exposing them to intriguing and unfamiliar textures, while never neglecting the ever-unfolding melody that is at the core of all Birtwistle鈥檚 music.

There will be no interval

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