Peter Michael Hamel, "Gestalt for Orchestra"

-- Liner Notes --Sinfonieorchester des S?dwestfunksCristobal Halffter, conductorPETER MICHAEL HAMELNo composer of his generation has met the challenge of non-European music so squarely and worked it...

Harrison Birtwistle, "Grimethorpe Aria"

-- Liner Notes --The brass band occupies a special place in British musical life. Widely admired, yet almost completely isolated from other forms of music making; entirely amateur in its playing...

Harrison Birtwistle, "Fields of Sorrow"

-- Liner Notes --The Fields of Sorrow shares the Orpheus-orientation with Nenia (the text by Ausonius from the Aeniad refers to the souls of lost lovers wandering around the underworld); and shares...

Harrison Birtwistle, "Chronometer"

-- Liner Notes --Chronometer is entirely made up from the sounds of clock mechanisms which have been computer-analyzed and regenerated onto 8 tracks. (Reduced in this recording by two.) In the...

Harrison Birtwistle, "Nenia"

-- Liner Notes --Nenia--The Death of Orpheus, composed in the year after Verses, initiated the third creative phase, which has already produced important works for voices and instruments, such as The...