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Solo S-string quartet-2cl-vla.vlc.db
3 movements from each constituent cycle are published by Universal
Edition. The complete work is available on hire from Boosey & Hawkes.

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Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.

World Premiere
29/04/1996
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Claron McFadden, soprano / Capricorn / Arditti Quartet / Lionel Friend
Press Quotes

"Pulse Shadows is a consummation of Birtwistle's art... His word-setting has a toughness that keeps faith with the poetry, and his jittery quartet idiom a virtuosity nowhere more apparent than in Todesfuge, a spectacular (spectral) version of a late Beethoven fugue."
Sunday Times



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