George Benjamin Sheet Music for Orchestra

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...

... 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...

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...

Overall, Benjamin's score aspired towards an exalted kind of jubilation - almost evoking angels in the music of the spheres: and as such it sounded vivid and imaginative. The Guardian (Meirion Bowen),...

An atmospheric and subtly orchestrated piece, it compels attention from the opening wisps of sound on xylophone and mandolin, threading its way through forceful baritone phrases (William Dazeley, exce...

... a beautifully wrought soundscape of crystalline bleakness out of which a soprano voice emerges. Its continuation delights by its unfailing inventiveness. The Independent (David Wright), 20 March 1...

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 fi...

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 work contains some of the most startlingly precise storm music ever written - it seems less evocation than the sound of the thing itself. But there is more to it than that: Eliot's lines suggested...