Orchestra, Piano (Study Score) SKU: HL.48024788
Piano and Orchestra Study Score. Composed by Harrison Birtwistle. Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books. Classical. Softcover. 100 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060136184. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48024788). ISBN 9781784545314. UPC: 888680967536. 9x12 inches.
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.
