George Benjamin (b.1960)
Composer
Contemporary English composer who studied with Messaien.
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Further Reading: Benjamin, G
Interview, Sir George Benjamin on Lessons in Love and Violence
13th February 2019
The composer talks to Katherine about the genesis of his third opera, which premiered at Covent Garden last May and was released on DVD and Blu-ray at the end of December.
Recording of the Week, George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence
28th December 2018
The British composer's third opera, based on the downfall of Edward II and starring French baritone Stéphane Degout as the conflicted monarch, has a compact, claustrophobic beauty.
All Works: Benjamin, G
- 'Twas in the year that King Uzziah died (2)
- A Canon for Sally (1)
- A Lullaby for Lalit (1)
- A Mind of Winter (1)
- Altitude (1)
- Antara (2)
- At First Light (2)
- Dance Figures (1)
- Dream of the Song (2)
- Duet for piano and orchestra (1)
- Fantasy on Iambic Rhythm (1)
- Flight (2)
- Into The Little Hill (2)
- Lauer Lied (1)
- Lessons in Love and Violence (2)
- Meditation on Haydn's Name (1)
- Nine Choreographic Scenes for Orchestra (1)
- Octet (1979) (1)
- Olicantus (2)
- Palimpsests (2)
- Panorama (1)
- Piano Sonata (1979) (1)
- Ringed by the Flat Horizon (1)
- Shadowlines, Six Canonic Preludes For Piano (2001) (4)
- Sometime Voices (1)
- Sudden Time (2)
- Three Inventions For Chamber Orchestra (1)
- Three Miniatures for Solo Violin (1)
- Three Studies For Solo Piano (1)
- Two or four (for piano four hands) (1)
- Two or four (for piano two hands) (1)
- Upon Silence (1990) (2)
- Upon Silence (1991) (1)
- Viola, Viola for two violas (3)
- Written on Skin (5)
