Harrison Birtwistle's The Triumph of Time

Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics - A podcast by BBC Radio 3

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Pianist Joanna MacGregor celebrates Harrison Birtwistle’s The Triumph of Time, an orchestral work she describes as “sculpted, dream-like and mesmeric”; Paul Griffiths remembers the London premiere and how it marked a new departure for the composer, and Birtwistle himself reflects on the subject of time in music.