George Benjamin
Into the Little Hill - A Lyric Tale in Two Parts
for Soprano, Contralto and Ensemble of 15 Players - Text
George Benjamin
Into the Little Hill - A Lyric Tale in Two Parts
for Soprano, Contralto and Ensemble of 15 Players - Text
- Instrumentation 2 Voices and 15 Instruments
- Composer George Benjamin
- Edition Lyrics only
- Publisher Faber Music
- Order no. 0571531490
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Description:
... it was the eerie beauty and uncanny originality of the music that made the dominant impression on me. The scoring is remarkable - for a sort of 'alienated' folk band . . . There are passages of ethereal delicacy, silken slowness, but these are contrasted with sudden fierceness, as in Benjamin's recent orchestral Palimpsests. Bass timbres are beguiling, the tutti sound is at once bizarre and delectable: I wanted more of it. ' The Sunday Times (Paul Driver), 3 December 2006
Instrumentation: Soprano: The Crowd/The Stranger/Narrator/The Minister's Child - Contralto: The Crowd/Narrator/The Minister/The Minister's Wife bfl(=fl+picc).2 basset hn in F.cbcl - 2 crts.tenor trbn - cimbalom(=perc(1)): cyms/guiro/whip/2 crot - 2 vln(II=mandolin).2 vla(II=banjo).2 vlc.db(lowest string tuned to C)
Instrumentation: Soprano: The Crowd/The Stranger/Narrator/The Minister's Child - Contralto: The Crowd/Narrator/The Minister/The Minister's Wife bfl(=fl+picc).2 basset hn in F.cbcl - 2 crts.tenor trbn - cimbalom(=perc(1)): cyms/guiro/whip/2 crot - 2 vln(II=mandolin).2 vla(II=banjo).2 vlc.db(lowest string tuned to C)