Birtwistle/ Nash Ensemble - Chamber Works AEC Music In the twenty or so

In the twenty or so years since his brainchild

was a notoriously colourful character who worked in western movies with Roy Rogers before leading one of the biggest country orchestras of it's kind

he becomes a full-blown lycanthrope

the group is well-balanced and the soloists admirable

Birtwistle/ Nash Ensemble - Chamber Works AEC Music In the twenty or soBorn in 1934, Sir Harrison Birtwistle is one of the leading European figures in contemporary music. He first made his mark in 1965 with the decet Tragoedia, a work whose ambience of something at once ancient and modern, with stark juxtapositions of strident violence and fragile lyricism, presented a sound and sensibility quite new in British music. The Nash Ensemble was formed around the same time and over the decades that have followed, a close