Harrison Birtwistle: Melencolia- Ritual Fragment Format:Booklet Dillon's setting of Gaelic poetry

Dillon's setting of Gaelic poetry for soprano & bass

‘[…] The music is first rate

Recording Engineer Mike Hatch for Floating Earth

characterised by meditative

Harrison Birtwistle: Melencolia- Ritual Fragment Format:Booklet Dillon's setting of Gaelic poetryRelease Date: 1 January 1993 This album couples two major works composed in the 1970s, Melencolia I and Meridian, a setting of love poetry, with Ritual Fragment, written in 1989. The works display Birtwistle's distinctive and forceful voice and range in mood from austere introspective journeying to moments of unbearable intensity. Antony Pay clarinet Mary King mezzo soprano Michael Thompson horn Christopher van Kampen cello London Sinfonietta Voices