{"title":"Performer: Gareth Hulse","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"benjamin-a-mind-of-winter-etc-benjamin-94664","title":"Benjamin: A Mind Of Winter, Etc \/ Benjamin, Elder, Et Al","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Benjamin is a contemporary composer known best among small circles, but with a loyal international following. This recording contains five of his pieces, and they share a common style. Benjamin treats a composition as a landscape: a kind of blank, rolling panorama onto which he affixes musical ideas. His sound is very textured and evocative. 'Ringed by the Flat Horizon,' for example, portrays a storm that overtakes a vast open space. The music begins ominously and contains a variety of created sound effects along with rapid fire crescendos into huge orchestral crashes. 'A Mind In Winter' is contrarily a setting of \"The Snowman\" (a poem by Wallace Stevens), and yet is built upon the same sort of abstract picture-building and sweeping evocative gestures for the voice. Benjamin's vocabulary is developed from the modern schools of atonality, and his teacher Messiaen is a clear and strong influence on his work. For those attracted to the modern schools of classical composition, they will find a great many layers to be unveiled in this recording.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nimbus","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":44625610506474,"sku":"710357564321","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/305119.jpg?v=1778294923"}],"url":"https:\/\/arkivmusic.com\/collections\/performer-gareth-hulse.oembed","provider":"ArkivMusic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}