Par PART ARVO. This piece is Pärt's tribute to Benjamin Britten who died in 1976. Arvo Pärt: In the past years we have had many losses in the world of music to mourn. Why did the date of Benjamin Britten's death - 4 December 1976 - touch such a chord in me? During this time I was obviously at the point where I could recognize the magnitude of such a loss. Inexplicable feelings of guilt, more than …

Franco-algérien fingerstyle guitariste Pierre Bensusan est un talent unique. Son sound et le style confond classification, être profondément originale et encore familier et expressif. Son empreinte est sur elle que ce soit son folk antérieure et axée sur le Celtic rendus, son matériau improvisation de forme libre, ou dans les paramètres, en solo ou ensemble. Sans aucun doute, il est un des meilleu…

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Duo pour piano et orchestre a été commandée par Roche pour le Festival de Lucerne 2008, où il a d'abord été interprétée par l'Orchestre de Cleveland et de la direction de Franz WelserMö - st. George Benjamin CBE est l'un des compositeurs les plus remarquables de sa génération. Né en 1960, Benjamin a commencé à jouer du piano à l'âge de sept ans, et commence à composer presque …

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Dedicated to the memory of Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin?s 2021 Concerto for Orchestra premiered at the BBC proms by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Benjamin said that the piece attempts ?to conjure a trace of the energy, humour, and spirit? of Knussen. It is varied and dynamic across its unbroken 18-minute span ? skittish lines play against still, suspended ones ? and full of…

Transcriptions from the Azwan Album, Live Pieces and Insights. Par BENSUSAN PIERRE. This impressive comprehensive dual language (English and French) edition features several music transcriptions with guitar tab from Bensusan's Azwan album and other performance pieces, as well as extensive intermediate to advanced level instruction and technique on topics including: DADGAD tuning, positions, finger…

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. 'Benjamin augurs well to become the most important British composer of his generation. An Antara is a Peruvian panpipe. Benjamin's 1987 work synthesizes its sound via computer and adds trombones, flutes, percussion and strings for a 20-minute essay that dazzles as much for its textures (from lush strings to the wham of an orchestral anvil) as it does for its alert rhythmic sch…

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Premiered in 2018, the 90-minute opera Lessons in Love and Violence delves into the dark and turbulent events of Edward II's life and death. George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's third collaboration, it unfolds as a taut slow burning arch of seven tableaux. This work boasts particularly rich string textures, and is coloured by basset horn and cimbalom together with a pair of harp…

Par BRITTEN BENJAMIN. Vocal score to Benjamin Britten's The Rescue of Penleope, for  narrator, four solo voices and orchestra. The concert version of the radio drama The Rescue (1943) prepared by Christopher de Souza in association with Donald Mitchell and Colin Matthews./ Répertoire / Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Baryton, Ténor et Orchestr

Par BRITTEN BENJAMIN. Parts to Benjamin Britten's Phantasy for String Quintet./ Répertoire / Violon, Alto et Violoncelle

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Shadowlines is a set of six canonic preludes for Piano by George Benjamin. The work was concieved as a continous cumulative structure and is approximately 15 minutes in duration. / Niveau : Elémentaire / Répertoire / Piano

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. The Full score to George Benjamin's A Mind Of Winter for Soprano voice and Orchestra. '. . .a beautifully wrought soundscape of crystalline bleakness out of which a soprano voice emerges. Its continuation delights by its unfailing inventiveness.' The Independent (David Wright), 20 March 1990/ Répertoire / Voix et Ensemble Instrumental

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. '. . .the sheer technical aplomb of the work continues to amaze. Benjamin wrote it when he was eighteen - the beautifully dappled structure and wonderfully imagined effects seem to evidence a far deeper maturity.'Financial Times (Andrew Clements), 24 February 1987/ Répertoire / Conducteur