Harrison Birtwistle: Melencolia- Ritual Fragment Format:Booklet and Iain Burnside

and Iain Burnside

this anthology gives a viable overview of Causton's earlier development from auspicious beginnings to mature mastery

Dillon's setting of Gaelic poetry for soprano & bass

characterised by meditative

swirling choral textures

Harrison Birtwistle: Melencolia- Ritual Fragment Format:Booklet and Iain BurnsideRelease Date: 1 January 1993 This album couples two major works composed in the 1970s, Melencolia I and Meridian, a setting of love poetry, with Ritual Fragment, written in 1989. The works display Birtwistle's distinctive and forceful voice and range in mood from austere introspective journeying to moments of unbearable intensity. Antony Pay clarinet Mary King mezzo soprano Michael Thompson horn Christopher van Kampen cello London Sinfonietta Voices