George Benjamin
Philharmonia/Benjamin review - a sensual and spare birthday concert
In this belated birthday celebration, George Benjamin’s programme included his own music plus a sombre memorial to his late friend Oliver Knussen
Andrew Clements
08, Mar, 2020 @10:52 AM
The best classical music works of the 21st century
Over the coming week, the Guardian will select the greatest culture since 2000, carefully compiled by critics and editors. We begin with a countdown of defining classical music compositions, from X-rated opera to high-tech string quartets
Andrew Clements, Fiona Maddocks. John Lewis, Kate Molleson, Tom Service, Erica Jeal and Tim Ashley
12, Sep, 2019 @4:20 PM
Queens and aces: the best classical music of 2019
There’s a year-long celebration of female composers, a brand new festival of contemporary music – and it’s birthday time for Berlioz
Andrew Clements
01, Jan, 2019 @3:01 PM
Home listening: a good week for Carolyn Sampson – and Handel
The soprano excels on new recordings by the Dunedin and King’s Consorts. Plus, George Benjamin on BBC TV
Nicholas Kenyon
29, Oct, 2018 @11:30 AM
London Sinfonietta/George Benjamin review – austere first world war meditation
Benjamin conducts four new pieces with care and intensity but comes into his own with works of ritual mourning by Stravinsky and Messiaen
Tim Ashley
23, Jul, 2018 @10:30 AM
Lessons in Love and Violence review – a bolder, angrier, more tender George Benjamin
The transgressive love between Edward II and his courtier takes hold in George Benjamin’s rich, dark new opera
Fiona Maddocks
19, May, 2018 @5:00 PM
Home listening: the tricky business of the piano trio
Fine new releases from Trio Wanderer and the Gould Piano Trio. Elsewhere, George Benjamin and Martin Crimp don’t quite reveal all
Nicholas Kenyon
12, May, 2018 @1:00 PM
Lessons in Love and Violence review – soaring tale of a brutal royal downfall
George Benjamin’s modern-day retelling of Edward II’s demise is a bleak, lustrous opera that places a gay love story it its centre
Andrew Clements
11, May, 2018 @11:25 AM
Written on Skin review – spare staging highlights richness of Benjamin's opera
The Melos Sinfonia’s thrilling concert performance of George Benjamin’s intense, horrifying work was often more dramatic than full productions
Andrew Clements
22, Oct, 2017 @12:52 PM
Dowland: Lachrymae; Benjamin: Upon Silence CD review – mesmeric songs for viols and lute
Erica Jeal
10, Aug, 2017 @2:15 PM
Martin Crimp: ‘I wrote a play called Cruel and Tender – I hope to be both’
Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley have starred in his bleakly funny, sometimes dowright horrible plays. As The Treatment is revived at the Almeida, Martin Crimp talks about how his work can scandalise and surprise
Andrew Dickson
24, Mar, 2017 @7:00 AM
Royal Opera to premiere new work by George Benjamin
The British composer, whose Written on Skin is one of the most acclaimed operas of our times, is collaborating with Martin Crimp again for a work that will debut in London in May 2018
Imogen Tilden
31, Jan, 2017 @12:43 PM
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