NI 5828
Total Playing Time 63 mins 15 secs
DDD

George Benjamin

Into the Little Hill

A lyric tale in two parts for soprano, contralto and ensemble of 15 players
Text by Martin Crimp
Anu Komsi (The Crowd, The Stranger, Narrator, The Minister’s Child)
Hilary Summers (The Crowd, Narrator, The Minister, The Minister’s Wife)
Ensemble Modern, Franck Ollu, conductor

Dance Figures

Nine Choreographic scenes for orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen, conductor

Sometime Voices (1996)

Dietrich Henschel, baritone
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Rundfunkchor Berlin
Kent Nagano, conductor

Into the Little Hill - "It is an exquisite piece, full of beguiling sounds, and retains all that magic in this recording"
Dance Figures - "A single movement lasting just over a quarter of an hour, it is structured as a series of sharply contrasted episodes, each individually titled, almost like musical vignettes, but building into a coherent whole. The performance under Oliver Knussen is wonderfully incisive too; all in all, this is a remarkable disc."

Andrew Clements, The Guardian, Friday August 22nd 2008















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