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'Why we like it: The haunting title piece plays off the composer's upbringing in Florida in the 1950s and '60s by reworking folk tunes John Henry and Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
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Harrison Birtwistle: Angel Fighter Ogg; Harry 'Why we like it: TheDescribed by The Guardian as 'hauntingly powerful', Birtwistle's cantata Angel Fighter vividly explores the Biblical story of the struggle between man and divine being from the Book of Genesis. Predictably, for a composer with a long standing fascination in myth, drama and ritual, it's the physical fight between Jacob and the Angel more than religious significance, that interests Birtwistle: the tension, twists of pulse, sharp accents and jeering