George Benjamin

... 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...

Picture a day like this is the fourth collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the Little Hi...

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...

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.

... perhaps the most impressive, motivated handling of orchestral forces in an output which has always demonstrated an extraordinary control of large forms. And the most telling of its time-tricks is...

Instrumentation: 4(I-IV=picc, IV=afl).0.4(IV=cl in A, III+IV=bcl).0.cbsn - 3.4(I=ptpt).btpt.1.btrbn.1 - perc(3): 2 xyl/5 SD/2 whip/2 vib/2 vibraslap/2 BD/tgl/3 tpl.bl/2 congas/5 bongos/4 c.bells- pno(...

Instrumentation: 2 fl(II=picc2).picc(=fl3).2.Ebcl.2 cl(I=Eb, II=Bb, A &bcl).bcl.2.cbsn - 4.2.3.1 - timp - perc(4): 15 tpl.bl(large-very small)/2 guiros(large & small)/tam-t/2 ratchet/BD/2SD(medium & v...

... the sheer technical aplomb of the work continues to amaze. Benjamin wrote it when he was eighteen; the beautifully dappled structure and wonderfully imagined effects seem to evidence a far deeper...

Benjamin augurs well to become the most important British composer of his generation. An Antara' is a Peruvian panpipe. Benjamin's 1987 work synthesizes its sound via computer and adds trombones, flut...

... a model of concision and concentration. San Francisco Examiner (Timothy Pfaff), September 1996, Instrumentation: 2(I=picc.II=picc+afl).1(=ca).2(I=Bb+A.II=Bb+bcl).bcl(=cbcl).1(=cbsn) - 2.1(=flhn+pt...

This work was commissioned by the Festival d'Automne a Paris, with contributions from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Opera National de Paris and Ensemble Modern, with contributions from the F...

Picture a day like this is the fourth collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the Little Hi...

Olicantus is a small but perfectly formed miniature written in 2002 as a surprise 50 th birthday gift to Benjamin's friend and fellow composer-conductor Oliver Knussen. Scored for a mellow group of 15...

'Perfectly structured music of great beauty, fleet-footed and profound, varied and thoughtful... Benjamin possesses a passionate, almost fanatical, gift for tone colour... ' NRC Handelsblad (Joe Stack...

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...

George Benjamin CBE is one of the outstanding composers of his generation. Born in 1960, Benjamin started to play the piano at the age of seven, and began composing almost immediately. He is now the H...

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...

Picture a day like this is the fourth operatic collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the...

Interludes and Aria from ‘Lessons in Love and Violence’ (2024) is a 15-minute montage of excerpts for soprano and orchestra from  Benjamin and Crimp’s celebrated 2018 opera. Premiered by Sir Simon Rat...

... were not just impressive: they seemed to enter the repertoire before one's very ears. The Sunday Times (Paul Driver), 9 February 1986

For 10 beguiling minutes, the two instruments take turns offering fierce or lyrical outbursts, either individually or in close-knit counterpoint. . . The effect is mesmerizing. . . San Francisco Chron...

Viola, Viola, composed by George Benjamin, for viola duet in digital sheet music format.