Listen to Harrison Birtwistle - Chamber Music:
http://player.ecmrecords.com/harrison-birtwistle--chamber-music
'Settings of the writings of US Objectivist poet Lorine Niedecker
(1903-1970), scored for soprano and cello in 1998 and 2000, begin and
close the album. As Bayan Northcott writes in the booklet, “These
concentrated songs demand the utmost of their performers in precision,
expression and timing. As in Webern’s settings, the few words and notes
on the page can seem to imply whole worlds of thought and feeling”. This
highly-concentrated chamber-scale expressivity is felt throughout the
entire album, recorded at Munich’s famed Herkulessaal, and produced by
Manfred Eicher.'