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Harrison Birtwistle

Title: Orpheus Elegies - Three Bach Arias

Label: Oboe Classics

Cat No:CC2020
Format:CD

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Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s compositional life from the mid 1970s to the 1980s was dominated by his opera The Mask of Orpheus, and the same period saw the origin of the Elegies, written for Melinda Maxwell and Helen Tunstall while they were working with the composer at the National Theatre.

‘They are like enchanted preludes…Enchantingly performed here’ The Sunday times

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