Harrison Birtwistle in recent years – Michael Hall, 1998

Paperback, 200 pages

Contains black and white photos.

Continuing the much-praised Contemporary Composers Series, Michael Hairs Harrison Birtwistle in Recent Years brings the reader up-to-date with all this outstanding composer’s recent achievements… some of the most compelling music of our time. No other living composer can match the extraordinary eat col flair in his operas, his orchestral works, his chamber music, and even his miniature plano pieces. Hall reveals that Birtwistle considers himself to be an inveterate melancholic, but his music shows that he has a boyish sense of humor and an optimism of spirit. In this ambiguity Hall shows that this is where Birtwistle’s poetry lies.