Benjamin: A Mind Of Winter, Etc / Benjamin, Elder, Et Al
Details
- Composer
- BENJAMIN, GEORGE
- Artist
- Pople, Elder, Walmsley-Clarke, Benjamin
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Nimbus
- Released
- Oct 01, 1996
- Catalog #
- NI5643
- UPC
- 710357564321
About
George 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.
Tracklist 7 tracks
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1 Ringed by the Flat Horizon 19:50
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Ringed by the Flat Horizon
- Duration
- 19:50
- Composer
- George Benjamin
- Performer
- Ross Pople
- Ensemble
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Mark Elder
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2 A Mind of Winter 09:15
- Track
- 2
- Title
- A Mind of Winter
- Duration
- 09:15
- Composer
- George Benjamin
- Performer
- Penelope Walmsley-Clark, Paul Archibald
- Ensemble
- London Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- George Benjamin
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3 I. — 02:12
- Track
- 3
- Title
- I. —
- Duration
- 02:12
- Composer
- George Benjamin
- Performer
- Gareth Hulse
- Ensemble
- London Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- George Benjamin
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4 II. — 10:26
- Track
- 4
- Title
- II. —
- Duration
- 10:26
- Composer
- George Benjamin
- Performer
- Gareth Hulse
- Ensemble
- London Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- George Benjamin
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5 III. — 07:07
- Track
- 5
- Title
- III. —
- Duration
- 07:07
- Composer
- George Benjamin
- Performer
- Gareth Hulse
- Ensemble
- London Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- George Benjamin
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6 Panorama 02:24
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Panorama
- Duration
- 02:24
- Composer
- George Benjamin
- Performer
- George Benjamin
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7 Antara 19:37
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Antara
- Duration
- 19:37
- Composer
- George Benjamin
- Performer
- Sebastian Bell, Richard Blake, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Ichiro Nodaira
- Ensemble
- London Sinfonietta
- Conductor
- George Benjamin