Sir Harrison Birtwistle (15 Jul 1934 - 18 Apr 2022)

Male Person - United Kingdom

Works (223)

Arranged

1. Ut heremita solus (1969)
2. Mercure (1980)
3. Five Chorale Preludes
4. Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not

Revised

1. Chorale from a Toy Shop (2016)
2. Chorale from a Toy Shop (2016)

Composed

1. Refrains and Choruses (1957)
2. Chorales (1960 - 1963)
3. Précis (1960)
4. Three Movements with Fanfares (1964)
5. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments: X. Entr'acte III (2nd version) (1964)
6. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments: XI. Cantus III (1964)
7. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments: XII. Entr'acte V (2nd version) (1964)
8. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments: XIII. Cantus IV (1964)
9. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments: XIV. Cantus V (1964)
10. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments: IV. (1964)
11. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments: V. (1964)
12. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments: VI. Untitled (1964)
13. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments: VII. Cantus I (1964)
14. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments: VIII. Entr'acte II (2nd version) (1964)
15. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments: IX. Cantus II (1964)
16. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments (1964)
17. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments: I. (1964)
18. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments: II. (1964)
19. Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments: III. (1964)
20. Ring a Dumb Carillon (1964 - 1965)
21. Tragoedia (1965)
22. Tragoedia: I. Prologue (1965)
23. Tragoedia: II. Paradox (1965)
24. Tragoedia: III. Episodion: Strophe I - Anapaest I (1965)
25. Tragoedia: IV. Antistrophe I (1965)
26. Tragoedia: V. Stasimon (1965)
27. Tragoedia: VI. Episodion: Strophe II - Anapaest II (1965)
28. Tragoedia: VII. Antistrophe II (1965)
29. Tragoedia: VIII. Exodos (1965)
30. Verses (1965)
31. Punch and Judy (1966 - 1967)
32. Chorale from a Toy Shop (1967)
33. Chorale from a Toy Shop (1967)
34. Chorale from a Toy Shop (1967)
35. Nomos (1967 - 1968)
36. Linoi (1968)
37. Verses for Ensembles (1968 - 1969)
38. Down by the Greenwood Side (1968 - 1969)
39. Meridian (1970 - 1971)
40. Nenia: The Death of Orpheus (1970)
41. Dinah and Nick's Love Song (1970)
42. The Fields of Sorrow (1971 - 1972)
43. The Triumph of Time (1971 - 1972)
44. Sad Song (1971)
45. Tombeau in memoriam Igor Stravinsky (1971)
46. La Plage (1972)
47. The Mask of Orpheus (1973 - 1984)
48. Grimethorpe Aria (1973)
49. For O, for O, the Hobby-Horse is Forgot (1976)
50. Melencolia I (1976)
51. Silbury Air (1977)
52. Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum (1977 - 1978)
53. ... agm ... (1978 - 1979)
54. On the Sheer Threshold of the Night (1980)
55. Duets for Storab: II. Stark Pastoral (1983)
56. Duets for Storab: III. Fanfare with Birds (1983)
57. Duets for Storab: IV. White Pastoral (1983)
58. Duets for Storab: V. From the Church of Lies (1983)
59. Duets for Storab: VI. Crunluath (1983)
60. Duets for Storab: I. Urlar (1983)
61. Duets for Storab (1983)
62. Songs by Myself: III. Cold Statements (1984)
63. Songs by Myself: IV. Steps (1984)
64. Songs by Myself: V. The Silence Before Light (1984)
65. Songs by Myself: I. O Light Set the Flame in Amber (1984)
66. Songs by Myself: II. I Lean Against a Shade (1984)
67. Berceuse de Jeanne (1984)
68. Secret Theatre (1984)
69. Earth Dances (1985 - 1986)
70. Endless Parade (1986 - 1987)
71. Hector's Dawn (1987)
72. Pulse Shadows (1989 - 1996)
73. Pulse Shadows: I. Fantasia 1 (1989 - 1996)
74. Pulse Shadows: II. Thread suns (1989 - 1996)
75. Pulse Shadows: III. Frieze 1 (1989 - 1996)
76. Pulse Shadows: IV. White and Light (1989 - 1996)
77. Pulse Shadows: XVII. Todesfuge - Frieze 4 (1989 - 1996)
78. Pulse Shadows: XVIII. Give the Word (1989 - 1996)
79. Pulse Shadows: XI. Fantasia 4 (1989 - 1996)
80. Pulse Shadows: XII. Todtnauberg (1989 - 1996)
81. Pulse Shadows: XIII. Frieze 3 (1989 - 1996)
82. Pulse Shadows: XIV. Tenebrae (1989 - 1996)
83. Pulse Shadows: XV. Fantasia 5 (1989 - 1996)
84. Pulse Shadows: XVI. Night (1989 - 1996)
85. Pulse Shadows: V. Fantasia 2 (1989 - 1996)
86. Pulse Shadows: VI. Psalm (1989 - 1996)
87. Pulse Shadows: VII. Fantasia 3 (1989 - 1996)
88. Pulse Shadows: VIII. With Letter and Clock (1989 - 1996)
89. Pulse Shadows: IX. Frieze 2 (1989 - 1996)
90. Pulse Shadows: X. An Eye, Open (1989 - 1996)
91. Three Settings of Celan: I. White and Light (1989 - 1994)
92. Three Settings of Celan: II. Night (1989 - 1994)
93. Three Settings of Celan: III. Tenebrae (1989 - 1994)
94. Three Settings of Celan (1989 - 1994)
95. Gawain (1990 - 2013)
96. Ritual Fragment (1990)
97. An Interrupted Endless Melody: II. (1991)
98. An Interrupted Endless Melody: III. (1991)
99. An Interrupted Endless Melody (1991)
100. An Interrupted Endless Melody: I. (1991)
101. Gawain's Journey: Seduction Scene (1991)
102. Gawain's Journey: Vision of the Hunt II (1991)
103. Gawain's Journey: The Journey (1991)
104. Gawain's Journey: Vision of the Hunt III (1991)
105. Gawain's Journey: Morgan Goes Through Into the Blizzard (1991)
106. Gawain's Journey: The Opening of the Door (1991)
107. Gawain's Journey: The Challenge (1991)
108. Gawain's Journey: The Court Becomes Visible (1991)
109. Gawain's Journey: He Strikes the Blow (1991)
110. Gawain's Journey: Lullaby (1991)
111. Gawain's Journey: Vision of the Hunt I (1991)
112. Gawain's Journey: Introduction (1991)
113. Gawain's Journey (1991)
114. 4 Poems by Jaan Kaplinski: No. 4. The Way turns... (1991)
115. 4 Poems by Jaan Kaplinski: No. 3. Heart of Rain... (1991)
116. 4 Poems by Jaan Kaplinski: No. 2. Ant Trail... (1991)
117. 4 Poems by Jaan Kaplinski: No. 1. Ashes of One World... (1991)
118. 4 Poems by Jaan Kaplinski (1991)
119. Five Distances for Five Instruments (1992)
120. Tenebrae (1992)
121. The Cry of Anubis (1994)
122. Panic (1995)
123. Hoquetus Petrus (1995)
124. Harrison’s Clocks: II (1997 - 1998)
125. Harrison’s Clocks: III (1997 - 1998)
126. Harrison’s Clocks: IV (1997 - 1998)
127. Harrison’s Clocks: V (1997 - 1998)
128. Harrison’s Clocks: I (1997 - 1998)
129. Harrison’s Clocks (1997 - 1998)
130. Exody (1997)
131. The Last Supper (1998 - 1999)
132. Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker (1998 - 2000)
133. Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: V. (1998 - 2000)
134. Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: VI. (1998 - 2000)
135. Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: VII. (1998 - 2000)
136. Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: VIII. (1998 - 2000)
137. Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: IX. For Amelia (1998 - 2000)
138. Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: I. (1998 - 2000)
139. Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: II. (1998 - 2000)
140. Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: III. (1998 - 2000)
141. Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker: IV. (1998 - 2000)
142. The Woman and the Hare (1999)
143. Sonance 2000 (1999)
144. Sonance Severance 2000 (1999)
145. Three Brendel Settings (2000 - 2004)
146. Ostinato with Melody (2000)
147. Betty Freeman: Her Tango (2000)
148. The Axe Manual (2000)
149. The Shadow of Night (2001)
150. Tenebrae David (2001)
151. Saraband: The Kings Farewell (2001)
152. Theseus Game (2002 - 2003)
153. The Ring Dance of the Nazarene (2003)
154. The Io Passion (2003)
155. The Io Passion: Aubades and Nocturnes (2003)
156. Neruda Madrigales (2004 - 2005)
157. Night’s Black Bird (2004)
158. Orpheus Elegies: No. 12 (2004)
159. Orpheus Elegies: No. 25 (2004)
160. Orpheus Elegies: No. 20. Sonnet V (2004)
161. Orpheus Elegies (2004)
162. Orpheus Elegies: No. 1 (2004)
163. Orpheus Elegies: No. 2 (2004)
164. Orpheus Elegies: No. 11. Sonnet I (2004)
165. Orpheus Elegies: No. 5 (2004)
166. Orpheus Elegies: No. 14. Sonnet III (2004)
167. Cantus Iambeus (2004)
168. Bogenstrich – Meditations on a Poem of Rilke: IV. Wie eine Fuge (2006 - 2009)
169. Bogenstrich – Meditations on a Poem of Rilke: V. Liebes-Lied 2 (2006 - 2009)
170. Bogenstrich – Meditations on a Poem of Rilke (2006 - 2009)
171. Bogenstrich – Meditations on a Poem of Rilke: I. Liebes-Lied 1 (2006 - 2009)
172. Bogenstrich – Meditations on a Poem of Rilke: II. Lied ohne Worte (2006 - 2009)
173. Bogenstrich – Meditations on a Poem of Rilke: III. Variationen (2006 - 2009)
174. Lullaby (2006)
175. String Quartet: The Tree of Strings (2007)
176. Cortege (2007)
177. The Message (2008)
178. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2009 - 2010)
179. Angel Fighter (2009)
180. Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano (2010)
181. Fantasia Upon All the Notes (2011)
182. Three Settings of Lorine Niedecker: II. I Was the Solitary Plover (2011)
183. Three Settings of Lorine Niedecker: III. As I Shook Dust From My Father’s Door (2011)
184. Three Settings of Lorine Niedecker (2011)
185. Three Settings of Lorine Niedecker: I. Always North of Him (2011)
186. Gigue Machine (2011)
187. The Moth Requiem (2012)
188. Donum Simoni MMXVIII (2018)
189. Chronometer ’71
190. Birthday Song
191. Four Interludes From a Tragedy
192. Variations from the Golden Mountain
193. 9 Movements for String Quartet
194. 9 Movements for String Quartet: Fantasia I
195. White and Light
196. 9 Movements for String Quartet: Frieze I
197. 9 Movements for String Quartet: Fantasia II
198. 9 Movements for String Quartet: Fantasia III
199. 9 Movements for String Quartet: Frieze II
200. 9 Movements for String Quartet: Fantasia IV
201. 9 Movements for String Quartet: Frieze III
202. 9 Movements for String Quartet: Fantasia V
203. 9 Movements for String Quartet: Todesfuge - Frieze IV
204. Narration: A Description of the Passing of a Year
205. The Mask of Orpheus: Act III
206. The Mask of Orpheus: Act II
207. The Mask of Orpheus: Act I
208. Hoquetus Irvinius
209. The Corridor
210. Deep Time
211. Oockooing Bird
212. Pulse Sampler

Lyrics

1. Songs by Myself: V. The Silence Before Light (1984)
2. Songs by Myself: I. O Light Set the Flame in Amber (1984)
3. Songs by Myself: II. I Lean Against a Shade (1984)
4. Songs by Myself: III. Cold Statements (1984)
5. Songs by Myself: IV. Steps (1984)