NI 5505
Total Playing Time 64.54
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George Benjamin
Three Inventions, Upon Silence, Sudden Time, Octet
Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano
Fretwork
London Sinfonietta
London Philharmonic Orchestra
George Benjamin, conductor
"Three Inventions (1994) has ear-opening instrumental effects on every page, but these never detract from the essential processes of argument and cogent form-building in music perhaps more urgently expressive (especially in the third piece) than anything else of . With the astonishingly precocious Octet, written in 1979, when the composer was 18, and with highly effective recordings of definitive performances, this disc is an outstanding success."
Arnold Whittall, Gramophone
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