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This characteristically ever-evolving, single (29-minute) movement bears the remarkable title Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, which is that of a book of essays by Birtwistle's friend Robert Maxwell... The composer must not be “too precisein every part”, a frequent failing of the post-Schoenbergian serial music on which Birtwistle cut his teeth. But his own imaginationhas never subordinated itself to mathematics, and certainly doesn't in this turbulent, scherzo-like, brilliantly multilayered score (a melodic thread always on hand to lead us through the maze of invention)... the soloist-and-tutti relationship, Birtwistle's abiding concern, went into a dazzling new dimension.
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Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Publication Date: 07/2019 Medium: Softcover Pages: 100 Length: 12.00 in. Width: 9.00 in. Series: Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books Format: Study Score ISBN: 1784545317 Voicing: Study Score |
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