I heard the first performance of The Triumph of Time live on BBC Radio 3 (on June 1, 1972), Lawrence Foster conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall. Even via a transistor radio and an earpiece, and as a fourteen-year-old on the lowest rung of musical appreciation if keen to explore, I … Continue reading Harrison Birtwistle’s The Triumph of Time – Pierre Boulez’s recording for Argo (released in 1975) conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra.