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A guide to Harrison Birtwistle's musicThe Guardian (blog)There's one simple way to approach Harrison Birtwistle's music, one crucial maxim I want to give you above all others: Don't Panic! I refer, naturally, to the notorious premiere of Birtwistle's Panic, for solo saxophone, drum kit and ensemble, ...

Bow Down – reviewThe GuardianBow Down remains one of Harrison Birtwistle's best kept secrets. It was conceived with the poet and playwright Tony Harrison, at the National Theatre in 1977, for a small company of actors and instrumentalists. Based upon the traditional ballad of the ...

Bow Down, The Opera Group, Brighton Festival, reviewTelegraph.co.ukBy Rupert Christiansen I think it would be fair to surmise that the thought of the revival of an obscure work by Harrison Birtwistle is unlikely to send many readers into paroxysms of joy. His music doesn't ask (or want) to be liked: sculpted out of ...Bow DownStageall 2 news articles »

Birtwistle: Nine Movements; The Tree of Strings – reviewThe GuardianThese two works, completed in 1996 and 2007, are Harrison Birtwistle's only pieces for string quartet to date. The earlier Nine Movements began as one element in the meditations on Paul Celan, Pulse Shadows, an interlocking sequence of vocal and ...and more »

Live music: coming upThe Guardian (blog)... Birtwistle Portrait at Queen Elizabeth Hall Halle/Znaider in Manchester Rumer at St James's Piccadilly Beach House at Village Underground BCMG/Knussen in Birmingham ENO – Caligula at the Coliseum CBSO/Litton in Cheltenham The Beloved at Bush ...