Gawain: Act I: "Original Version" & 2 copies of Act II: "Second Version" & "Third Version" (Archive Copies)

Opera in Two Acts

Composer: Birtwistle, Harrison

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Category: Full Scores

Product ID: 17825

Date: 2012

Publisher: Universal Edition

Format: Large folio

Binding: Plain publisher's card wrappers, ringbound

Price: £650.00

Description: Some slight wear, some paper tabs stuck to edges of third volume

Notes: Archive style facsimiles of MSS, all issued at the same time: 10/2012. Possibly used by the composer in preparation for the restored version of Gawain in Salzburg in 2012. On the inside of the rear board of the 2nd volume HB has written the name Alvis Hermanis (the director of the Salzburg production). Another name is written on the outside of the same board: possibly (Jeffrey) Lloyd Roberts(?) (who sang Arthur). There are a few pen numbers (page numbers and rehearsal figures) written on the rear board of the 3rd volume - these seem to refer to sections of volume 3 that have been cut (there are some missing pages in this volume), some of these sections are marked with paper tabs stuck to the fore-edge. There is some slight marking