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Hear and Now - Harrison Birtwistle Celebration

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Tom Service celebrates the forty-five year career of one of Britain's most distinguished composers, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, in a concert recorded at the Wigmore Hall in March. Plus a UK premiere from centenarian, Elliott Carter Birtwistle: Five Distances for Five Instruments Birtwistle: Oboe Quartet Birtwistle: Duets for Storab Carter: Poems of Louis Zukofsky (UK première) Birtwistle: Tragoedia Nash Ensemble Claire Booth (soprano) Lionel Friend (conductor).