"Harrison Birtwistle calls the 26 miniatures for counter-tenor (sung by contralto here), oboe and harp that make up his Orpheus Elegies "postcards with cryptic text". They are responses to 25 (two of Birtwistle's movements use different sections of the same poem) of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, though only seven are actually set conventionally. In the remaining movements, for oboe and harp occasionally reinforced by one or two ticking metronomes, perspectives constantly change; some seem to be songs without words, others commentaries on the unheard poems. Birtwistle leaves the ordering of the movements to the performers - just a selection of them with or without voice may also be performed - and in some of them the music is notated as a kind of mobile, introducing yet another degree of freedom. For that reason, there can be no such thing as a definitive performance of Orpheus Elegies....." (Andrew Clements - Guardian)
Harrison Birtwistle is Britain's leading living composer of contemporary classical music.
Harrison Birtwistle - Selection from Orpheus Elegies (2004) video phone beyonce mp3
"Harrison Birtwistle calls the 26 miniatures for counter-tenor (sung by contralto here), oboe and harp that make up his Orpheus Elegies "postcards with cryptic text". They are responses to 25 (two of Birtwistle's movements use different sections of the same poem) of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, though only seven are actually set conventionally. In the remaining movements, for oboe and harp occasionally reinforced by one or two ticking metronomes, perspectives constantly change; some seem to be songs without words, others commentaries on the unheard poems. Birtwistle leaves the ordering of the movements to the performers - just a selection of them with or without voice may also be performed - and in some of them the music is notated as a kind of mobile, introducing yet another degree of freedom. For that reason, there can be no such thing as a definitive performance of Orpheus Elegies....." (Andrew Clements - Guardian)
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