Picture a day like this est la quatrième collaboration entre George Benjamin et Martin Crimp, dont le partenariat acclamé a produit Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence et Into the Little Hil...
The first performance of Flight was given by David Lodeon on Radio France in March 1980. The work is for Solo Flute and is approximately 8 minutes in duration.
... Benjamin revealed an incredible sense of timbre and a precise technique of instrumentation which is unrivalled among his fellow composers. His precedence in both spheres was highlighted most vivid...
Inspired by the fast-moving scenes and vulnerable, complex characters of Elizabethan drama, this new opera by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp considers what space, if any, exists for love and human a...
... were not just impressive: they seemed to enter the repertoire before one's very ears. The Sunday Times (Paul Driver), 9 February 1986
Scored for the same ensemble as Benjamin's Palimpsests (with the addition of a cor anglais), this ingenious transcription of one of the jewels of Baroque organ music succeeds in capturing the spirit a...
After a period of intense work and isolation for Benjamin, his much-awaited new opera, Written on Skin , was premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival on 7 July 2012. A long standing ovation was the f...
The birth of any opera is a special event. The birth of Written on Skin has been extraordinary. It is once in generation, or even a lifetime, that a new opera receives such unanimous acclaim and so ma...
This full score is a perfect accompaniment to the previously published vocal score and text. Instrumentation: 8 Singers: KING (Bar)/ISABEL (S)/GAVESTON/STRANGER (Bar)/MORTIMER (T)/BOY/YOUNG KING (High...
Dedicated to the memory of Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin's 2021 Concerto for Orchestra premiered at the BBC proms by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Benjamin said that the piece attempts 'to conjure a...