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Barbican’s Birtwistle at 80 over-eggs the pudding during its exploration of the chamber works

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Reviewed at Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Milton Court Concert Hall, London on 25 May 2014
Birtwistle, Cantus Iambeus
Birtwistle, Monody for Corpus Christi
Birtwistle, Tragoedia
Birtwistle, Fantasia upon all the notes
Birtwistle, Four Poems by Jaan Kaplinski
Birtwistle, Virelai (Sus une fontayne)
Birtwistle, Silbury Air
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Oliver Knussen, Conductor
Katrien Baerts, Soprano
Pastel-perfect hell: To See The Invisible
****1
Proms at... Wilton’s: Conference of the Birds
***11
A bracing density of musical incident
*****
Singing from the same Songbook
***11
Birtwistle's early gems mesmerise
****1
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group play Britten at Turner Sims
****1
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