Podcast appearances and mentions of George Benjamin

Am 21. März feierte die Oper "Written on Skin" von George Benjamin und Martin Crimp im Münchner Prinzregententheater Premiere. Die Theaterakademie August Everding inszeniert das Werk gemeinsam mit dem Münchner Rundfunkorchester unter der Leitung von Peter Rundel und in Kooperation mit der Münchner Musikhochschule.

durée : 00:43:37 - En pistes, contemporains ! du dimanche 09 février 2025 - par : Emilie Munera - Au programme ce dimanche trois générations de compositrices et de compositeurs : Kelly-Marie Murphy, Pēteris Vasks, Elis Hallik et George Benjamin ! - réalisé par : Céline Parfenoff

durée : 00:43:37 - En pistes, contemporains ! du dimanche 09 février 2025 - par : Emilie Munera - Au programme ce dimanche trois générations de compositrices et de compositeurs : Kelly-Marie Murphy, Pēteris Vasks, Elis Hallik et George Benjamin ! - réalisé par : Céline Parfenoff

durée : 00:43:37 - En pistes, contemporains ! du dimanche 09 février 2025 - par : Emilie Munera - Au programme ce dimanche trois générations de compositrices et de compositeurs : Kelly-Marie Murphy, Pēteris Vasks, Elis Hallik et George Benjamin ! - réalisé par : Céline Parfenoff

durée : 00:27:16 - Les Midis de Culture - par : Marie Labory - Au programme du débat critique, de la musique : "Picture a day like this" de George Benjamin et “Brahms-Schubert“, un disque du pianiste français Alexandre Kantorow. - réalisation : Laurence Malonda - invités : Emmanuel Dupuy Rédacteur en chef du magazine Diapason; Anna Sigalevitch Journaliste et auteure

durée : 00:04:58 - Classic & Co - par : Anna Sigalevitch - Anna Sigalevitch nous parle de “Picture a day like this”, l'opéra de George Benjamin et Martin Crimp en ce moment à l'opéra comique et jusqu'au 31 octobre.

durée : 00:28:29 - Marianne Crebassa, mezzo-soprano - Après avoir assuré la création mondiale de l'opéra "Picture a day like this" en juillet 2023 à Aix-en-Provence, la mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa reprend, cette semaine à l'Opéra Comique, son rôle dans ce conte de fée lyrique signé George Benjamin.

durée : 02:03:42 - Musique matin du mercredi 23 octobre 2024 - par : Jean-Baptiste Urbain - Après avoir assuré la création mondiale de l'opéra "Picture a day like this" en juillet 2023 à Aix-en-Provence, la mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa reprend, cette semaine à l'Opéra Comique, son rôle dans ce conte de fée lyrique signé George Benjamin. - réalisé par : Yassine Bouzar

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durée : 00:13:24 - Disques de légende du lundi 21 octobre 2024 - Standing ovation pour un grand moment d'opéra, Written on Skin a réconcilié le grand public avec l'opéra contemporain en 2012, à Aix en Provence.

durée : 00:13:24 - Disques de légende du lundi 21 octobre 2024 - Standing ovation pour un grand moment d'opéra, Written on Skin a réconcilié le grand public avec l'opéra contemporain en 2012, à Aix en Provence.

durée : 00:14:28 - Journal de la création du dimanche 20 octobre 2024 - par : Laurent Vilarem - On part dans les coulisses de Picture a day like this de George Benjamin, l'un des événements lyriques de la rentrée à l'Opéra-Comique. En deuxième partie du journal, Ekaterina Desgraupes-Denisov met en lumière la musique de son père, le grand compositeur russe Edison Denisov. - réalisé par : Céline Parfenoff

durée : 01:29:24 - Musique matin été du mercredi 21 août 2024 - par : Gabrielle Oliveira-Guyon - Camille Merckx se revendique d'une tessiture peu commune, celle de mezzo-alto. Une voix grave qu'elle associe à celle de Jenny Daviet et à l'Ensemble intercontemporain, sous la baguette de Pierre Bleuse, dans l'opéra de George Benjamin, "Into the Little Hill", au Festival Ravel le 23 août prochain. - réalisé par : Fanny Constans

Bilbao acoge la XVI Edición de los Premios Fundación BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento. 'Hoy por Hoy Bilbao-Bizkaia' dedica un especio especial hasta la entrega de los galardones, el 20 de junio en el Palacio Euskalduna, para conceder tiempo a la ciencia y a sus protagonistas internacionales con ayuda de los profesionales que desde Euskadi trabajan en los ocho ámbitos que premia el certamen más importante de nuestro país. Biología y Biomedicina, Ecología y Biología de la Conservación, Ciencias Básicas, Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación, Economía Finanzas y Gestión de Empresas, Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Cambio Climático y Música y Ópera. El compositor George Benjamin, conocido por modernizar el lenguaje operístico, es el galardonado en la categoría de Música y Opera.

durée : 00:10:23 - "Images..." du pianiste Lorenzo Soulès chez B Records - Cette semaine le disque contemporain est celui du pianiste Lorenzo Soulès paru chez B Records. Au programme de ce disque : Claude Debussy et George Benjamin !

[@ 4 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle' with John Brancy in London, where he's reprising his role as the Artisan & Collector in George Benjamin's “Picture a Day Like This”. He tells us how that role was customized to his freakish abilities and why we shouldn't limit ourselves to just one way of singing… [@ 35 min] And then… Lisette Oropesa, who makes her Lyric Opera debut next month in “Daughter of the Regiment”, takes a ‘Free Throw' on the *other* Donizetti role that brought her career to international attention… [@ 45 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill'… What year is it? According to a North Carolina classical radio station, it's 1950... GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

»Eine Stimme wie Champagner« – Ihr Debüt gab sie mit 18 an der Komischen Oper Berlin. Anna Prohaska gehört derzeit zu den interessantesten, vielseitigsten Sopranistinnen. Sie zeigt ihre Wandelbarkeit in einem breiten Repertoire, das von Barock bis Neue Musik reicht. Ihr Markenzeichen sind zudem ungewöhnliche Programme, wie sie sie in Maria Mater Meretrix mit Patricia Kopatchinskaja oder in »Ophelia« mit Lars Eidinger gestaltet hat. Frisch nach dem Tourneestart mit dem Ensemble Modern und George Benjamin in Berlin ist die Sopranistin Gesprächspartnerin von Katie Knees. Anna Prohaska erzählt u. a., warum sie ihre Stimme manchmal als »schwieriges Haustier« empfindet, von welchem Komponisten sie sich eine Arie gewünscht hätte und kennt einen Kniff, wie man am einfachsten Texte auswendig lernt. https://www.koelner-philharmonie.de/de/programm/participant/anna-prohaska Foto Anna Prohaska ©Marco Borggreve

Knut Hamsun zählt zu den bedeutendsten Autoren aus Norwegen, aber auch zu den umstrittensten. Er bekannte sich offen zum Nationalsozialismus. Nun wurde sein bekanntestes Werk «Hunger» auf Deutsch übersetzt. Und George Benjamins neuste Oper überrascht mit Leichtigkeit und Tiefgründigkeit. Der 1952 verstorbene Knut Hamsun zählt zu den bedeutendsten Autoren aus Norwegen. Aber auch zu den umstrittensten. Hamsun bekannte sich offen zum Nationalsozialismus. Lange vor Hitler, 1920, erhielt Hamsun den Literaturnobelpreis. Sein wohl bekanntestes Werk trägt den Titel «Hunger». Nun ist die Urfassung aus dem Jahr 1890 zum ersten Mal auf Deutsch erschienen. Seine ersten drei sehr erfolgreichen Opern waren geprägt von Leidenschaft, Brutalität und Düsternis. Nun zeigen sich der Ernst von Siemens Musikpreisträger George Benjamin und sein Librettist Martin Crimp aber musikalisch und inhaltlich von einer ganz anderen Seite: In der klein besetzten Fabel «Picture a day like this», die zwar leichter wirkt, aber nicht minder tiefgründig ist. Weitere Themen: - Knut Hamsuns «Hunger»: Der Jahrhundertoman neu übersetzt - George Benjamins neue Oper ist eine Suche nach dem Glück 

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Ovationné pour son opéra « Written on skin » en 2012, le compositeur britannique George Benjamin revient au Festival d'Aix-en-Provence avec une nouvelle création mondiale qu'il dirige lui-même. « Picture a day like this » - « Imagine un jour comme celui-ci » raconte l'histoire d'une femme qui perd son enfant et tente l'impossible pour le ramener à la vie. Carmen Lunsmann vous présente cet opéra en un acte aux allures de fable initiatique.

Ovationné pour son opéra « Written on skin » en 2012, le compositeur britannique George Benjamin revient au Festival d'Aix-en-Provence avec une nouvelle création mondiale qu'il dirige lui-même. « Picture a day like this » - « Imagine un jour comme celui-ci » raconte l'histoire d'une femme qui perd son enfant et tente l'impossible pour le ramener à la vie. Carmen Lunsmann vous présente cet opéra en un acte aux allures de fable initiatique.

durée : 00:27:08 - George Benjamin, compositeur (5/5) - par : Judith Chaine - Dans le dernier volet de nos entretiens, le compositeur et chef d'orchestre George Benjamin relate sa rencontre avec le dramaturge Martin Crimp, qui deviendra le librettiste de ses trois opéras. La création française de leur dernier opéra, "Lessons in Love and Violence", aura lieu le 14 mai à Lyon. - réalisé par : Périne Menguy

durée : 00:27:05 - George Benjamin, compositeur (1/5) - par : Judith Chaine - Premier volet de nos entretiens avec le compositeur et chef d'orchestre George Benjamin. Il revient sur les sons de son enfance, le soutien dont il a bénéficié de ses parents dans le choix de poursuivre une carrière musicale, sa passion pour Beethoven. - réalisé par : Périne Menguy

durée : 00:27:08 - George Benjamin, compositeur (4/5) - par : Judith Chaine - Dans ce quatrième volet de nos entretiens, le compositeur et chef d'orchestre George Benjamin revient sur son activité de chef d'orchestre : "la direction d'orchestre est une science fascinante". - réalisé par : Périne Menguy

durée : 00:27:09 - George Benjamin, compositeur (2/5) - par : Judith Chaine - Deuxième volet de nos entretiens avec le compositeur et chef d'orchestre George Benjamin. Il se souvient de Peter Gellhorn qui fut son premier professeur de piano et de composition à Londres, avant son entrée dans la classe d'Olivier Messiaen au Conservatoire de Paris en 1976. - réalisé par : Périne Menguy

durée : 00:27:09 - George Benjamin, compositeur (3/5) - par : Judith Chaine - Troisième volet de nos entretiens avec le compositeur et chef d'orchestre George Benjamin. Après deux ans passés à étudier la composition avec Olivier Messiaen et le piano avec Yvonne Loriod à Paris, il retourne en Angleterre suivre les cours d'Alexander Goehr au King's College de Cambridge. - réalisé par : Périne Menguy

Komponieren ist ein bisschen wie Forschen: Komponistinnen und Komponisten suchen nach Klängen, Melodieschnipseln, einem Rhythmus, der auf irgendeine Art zu ihnen spricht. Klar, dass man solche Funde nicht alle Tage macht. Selbst er nicht: George Benjamin. Einer der am meisten gefeierten Komponisten unserer Zeit. Er arbeitet, das sagt er über sich selbst, mit "halluzinatorischer Konzentration" und feilt oft über mehrere Jahre an seinen Stücken. Jetzt bekommt der britische Komponist und Dirigent den renommierten Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis verliehen. An dem hochdotierten Preis hängt nicht nur eine ganze Menge Geld, er ist auch so etwas wie eine inoffizielle Adelung, eine Art Nobelpreis der Musik. Für herausragende Leistungen. Die Liste der Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger: ein Who is who der Musikszene, von Benjamin Britten über Leonard Bernstein und Wolfgang Rihm bis hin zu Olga Neuwirth. Und nun also George Benjamin. Kristin Amme stellt den Komponisten und Dirigenten vor.

Scottish composer Helen Grime is this week's guest on Composing Myself, talking to Wise Music Group CEO Dave Holley and Creative Director Gill Graham about her life in and out of music. Melodic motifs on the conversational score today include her formative years studying the oboe, why a first rehearsal is more nerve-wracking than a premiere, experiences at Tanglewood - the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, why passing knowledge forward through teaching and learning is so important, and the nature of inspiration - “sometimes I seek it, and sometimes I really need it”. As ever, a joyful and enlightening hour.https://helengrime.com/The music of Helen Grime has been performed by leading orchestras around the world, among them the London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductors who have championed her music include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Pierre Boulez, Kent Nagano, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Daniel Harding, Marin Alsop and Thomas Dausgaard. Her music frequently draws inspiration from related artforms such as painting (Two Eardley Pictures, Three Whistler Miniatures), sculpture (Woven Space) and literature (A Cold Spring, Near Midnight, Limina) and has won praise in equal measure for the craftsmanship of its construction and the urgency of its telling.Born in 1981, Grime attended St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh and, following studies at the Royal College of Music in London, was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to attend Tanglewood Music Center in 2008. Between 2011 and 2015 she was Associate Composer to the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester and in 2016 was appointed Composer in Residence at Wigmore Hall in London. She was Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London, between 2010 and 2017 and is currently Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was appointed MBE in the 2020 New Year Honours List for services to music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Helena Kennedy is one of Britain's most distinguished lawyers. Brought up in a Glasgow tenement flat, she was the first in her family to go to university. But instead of going to Glasgow University to read English and becoming a teacher, as they expected, she startled everyone by travelling to London - to study for the Bar. Some of her friends misunderstood and thought she'd gone south to find bar work. This was the end of the sixties, a time when there were extremely few women barristers. Since then, her ambition, fierce intelligence and considerable charm have taken her right to the top, and she now sits in the House of Lords as Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws. She created a huge stir when she published her first book, Eve was Framed, in 1992 – a shocking examination of how the criminal justice system fails women. Three years ago, she felt so little had changed that she published a sequel – in a book with the title Misjustice. Helen Kennedy campaigns now too on wider human rights issues, such as the persecution and murder of women in Iran and the shocking genocide of the Uighurs in China. In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Helena Kennedy looks back to the childhood which has been so influential on her campaigns for justice, and chooses the music which has sustained her through a series of difficult and high-profile cases. Her playlist includes Handel, Bach, Schubert, George Benjamin, James MacMillan, and her favourite Puccini opera, with Mimi's famous aria from La Boheme. A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3 Produced by Elizabeth Burke

George Benjamin ist einer der meist gefeierten Komponisten unserer Zeit. Nun wird der Brite mit dem "Nobelpreis für Musik", dem Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis, geehrt. Komponieren ist für ihn ein bisschen wie Forschen: die Suche nach Klängen, Melodieschnipseln, einem Rhythmus.

Un día como hoy, 31 de enero. Nace: 1624, Arnold Geulincx. 1788, Felice Romani. 1797, Franz Schubert. 1866, Lev Shestov. 1916, Carlos Jiménez Mabarak. 1921, Mario Lanza. 1935, Kenzaburō Ōe. 1937, Philip Glass. 1960, George Benjamin. Fallece: 1866, Friedrich Rückert. Una Producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2023.

“T” is for Tindall, George Benjamin (1921-2006). Historian, educator.

Tamara Stefanovich trat auf vielen internationalen Bühnen mit Musik von György Kurtág, Pierre Boulez, Hans Abrahamsen oder George Benjamin auf. Doch nun lässt sie ihrer eigenen Kreativität am Klavier freien Lauf, fernab von Regeln und Klischees. Sie selbst glaubte nicht, dass sie die nötige Lockerheit dafür besitzt, doch ihre Musikkollegen setzten sie einfach an den Flügel im Studio und entfesselten ihr Talent für die Avantgarde.

Meredith Wohlgemuth is an American NYC-based Soprano. In June 2022, Meredith received the Mélodie Premier Prix at the Concours musical international de Montreal. In addition to the first prize, she won the Joseph Rouleau Career Development Grant (50k), Normand Beauchamp Winner's Tour Grant (15k), and the French Mélodie Art Song Award with her duo partner Jinhee Park.In November 2021, Meredith was a NY District Winner in the Laffont Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a Finalist in the Young Concert Artists International Competition, and a semi-finalist in the Music Grand Prix International Competition. This season, she made her debut at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY, performing in a collaboration with Beth Morrison Projects, “21c Liederabend”. In January, Meredith made her debut at Carnegie Hall as a Renée Fleming SongStudio Young Artist. In March, she performed at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts and at Merkin Hall in NYC as a Schwab Vocal Rising Star in association with NYFOS (New York Festival of Song) with Steven Blier and Bénédicte Jourdois. She also competed in the Belvedere International Competition. This summer, Meredith was a Vocal Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival, where she sang the role of Witness 1/Singer 1 in the US Premiere of George Benjamin's Lessons in “Love and Violence”, conducted by the composer himself.Check out Meredith's website HEREYou can follow Meredith on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.  You can find Andrea's music on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube, and anywhere else that music can be streamed or downloaded!Follow Andrea on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok. Andrea's official website can be found at AndreavonKampen.com. Finally, if you would like to receive updates about new music, tour dates, podcast episodes, and more you can sign up for Andrea's mailing list HERE.

Ena dagen står han på pulten under Skanstullsbron i Stockholm, andra dagen debuterar han vid anrika operahus ute i Europa. Christian Karlsen brinner för att förmedla musik oavsett tidsepok, plats och publik. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. – Musik är det förstorade örats konst, säger dirigenten Christian Karlsen.Han är en engagerad förmedlare av ny musik men också en entusiasmerande förvaltare av de gamla klassikerna, som Haydn och Mozart. De senaste åren har han blivit ett allt mer välkänt ansikte genom sin medverkan i SVT:s Kontrapunkt. Christian Karlsen dirigerar regelbundet i Nederländerna och Storbritannien har bland annat turnerat i Asien med London sinfonietta. Precis innan pandemin bröt ut debuterade han på Deutsche Oper i Berlin och Frankfurt, och i det här programmet får vi följa med när han gör sin debut på Musikverein i Wien där han dirigerar uruppförandet av Chaya Czernowins verk Atara.Vi gör också nedslag vid festivalen Gränslandet under Skanstullsbron i Stockholm, i Umeå med norrskensmusik av Kaija Saariaho och i Eskilstuna, där skolungdomar får möta rysk avantgarde i form av Galina Ustvolskajas musik.I programmet medverkar förutom Christian Karlsen även kompositören och dirigenten George Benjamin, regissören Gunilla Johansson Gyllenspetz och skådespelaren Krister Henriksson.En dokumentär från 2022 av Kerstin Berggren.

Ena dagen står han på pulten under Skanstullsbron i Stockholm, andra dagen debuterar han vid anrika operahus ute i Europa. Christian Karlsen brinner för att förmedla musik oavsett tidsepok, plats och publik. Musik är det förstorade örats konst, säger dirigenten Christian Karlsen.Han är en engagerad förmedlare av ny musik men också en entusiasmerande förvaltare av de gamla klassikerna, som Haydn och Mozart. De senaste åren har han blivit ett allt mer välkänt ansikte genom sin medverkan i SVT:s Kontrapunkt. Christian Karlsen dirigerar regelbundet i Nederländerna och Storbritannien har bland annat turnerat i Asien med London sinfonietta. Precis innan pandemin bröt ut debuterade han på Deutsche Oper i Berlin och Frankfurt, och i det här programmet får vi följa med när han gör sin debut på Musikverein i Wien där han dirigerar uruppförandet av Chaya Czernowins verk Atara.Vi gör också nedslag vid festivalen Gränslandet under Skanstullsbron i Stockholm, i Umeå med norrskensmusik av Kaija Saariaho och i Eskilstuna, där skolungdomar får möta rysk avantgarde i form av Galina Ustvolskajas musik.I programmet medverkar förutom Christian Karlsen även kompositören och dirigenten George Benjamin, regissören Gunilla Johansson Gyllenspetz och skådespelaren Krister Henriksson.En dokumentär från 2022 av Kerstin Berggren.

Violinist Carolin Widmann covers 1000 years of repertoire in her latest album, L'Aurore, including works by Hildegard von Bingen, J.S. Bach, Ysaye, Enescu and George Benjamin. She speaks to online editor Davina Shum about what all these pieces have in common, including finding freedom within the form with such diversity of pieces. Carolin speaks about the importance of singing in achieving free, musical communication, and how the different ways composers use musical notation can achieve surprisingly similar results. Check out thestrad.com for the latest news and articles on all things to do with string playing. Register and subscribe to access exclusive archival content from 2010 onwards. Student discount! Get 50% off an online subscription! Check it out here: https://bit.ly/3eQ75AB  Find us on social media: Facebook.com/thestrad Twitter: @TheStradMag Instagram: @the_strad_   J.S. Bach: Partita no.2 in D minor BWV 1004 - Allemanda L'Aurore Carolin Widmann, violin ECM 2709 Photo credit: Lennard Rühle / ECM Records

Opera is een complexe muziekvorm. De emoties lopen vaak hoog op en een beetje voorstelling duurt algauw drie uur. Wil je het verhaal goed kunnen volgen, dan moet je je ook nog inlezen... Afhaken? Niet doen! Want goed uitgevoerd is het een betoverend genre. In deze aflevering hink-stap-springen Guido en Joris van het jaar 1600 naar nu, van Claudio Monteverdi naar George Benjamin. Onderweg geven ze handvatten om meer grip te krijgen op het fascinerende fenomeen opera. Muziekfragmenten: - Claudio Monteverdi, ‘Dormo ancora', uit Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria. Christoph Prégardien, Concerto Vocale o.l.v. René Jacobs. - Jean-Philippe Rameau, ‘Forêts paisibles', uit Les Indes galantes. Sabine Devieilhe, Les Ambassadeurs o.l.v. Alexis Kossenko. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ‘Se di lauri il crine adorno', uit Mitridate, re di Ponto. Michael Spyres, Les Musiciens du Louvre o.l.v. Marc Minkowski. - Richard Wagner, ‘Des Augen leuchtendes Paar', uit Die Walküre. Matthias Goerne, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra o.l.v. Jaap van Zweden. - Giacomo Puccini, ‘Un bel di vedremo, uit Madama Butterfly. Renata Tebaldi, Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia o.l.v. Tullio Serafin. - George Benjamin, ‘Agnes and the Boy', uit Written on Skin. Barbara Hannigan, Mahler Chamber Orchestra o.l.v. George Benjamin.

Vanessa Thomas -Williams joined Tammy Williams on the Breakfast Show of the 5th January 2022 to discuss her MBE award in this years New Years Honours List. Vanessa talks humbly about the notification process of the award and her plans to receive the actual MBE, how she started off in conservation, her time at Kew Gardens and how she was seconded back to St Helena in 2008 to conserve the endangered endemic species On Island, including the support of George Benjamin in the early years with many anecdote's. Then onto the type of work she has been conducting, including developing the next generation of conservationists.

It was a real pleasure to chat with a composer and conductor I have admired for so long - Sir George Benjamin was so open and honest and I found him to be such a warm person to chat with. We discussed how a composer/conductor must learn to distance themselves from their own music in performance, he had so many fond memories and stories about his dear friend, the late, great, Oliver Knussen, and I hear about an awful "birthday present" he once received! If you would like to join the supporters club for this podcast and find out more about the world of conducting and conductors, why not subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/amiconthepodium, and for a monthly fee starting from just £5 a month, you can access two new series of interviews, group Zoom meetings with other fans of the podcast and myself, a monthly bulletin about the podcast and my own career as well as articles, photos, videos and even conducting lessons from myself. If you listen via Apple podcasts, please do leave a rating and review - it really helps the podcast get noticed and attract more listeners. If you want to get involved on social media, you can via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/amiconthepodium) or Twitter (@amiconthepodium). This interview was recorded on 18th October 2021 via Zoom.

The music of Augusta Read Thomas has been performed all over the world by conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Mstislav Rostropovich, Seiji Ozawa, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Vimbayi Kaziboni, Christoph Eschenbach and many others. She is Vice President for Music at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, among many other distinctions, and is a long-standing, exemplary citizen of the profession at large supporting the work of others. Her music is published by G Schirmer and, since 2016, by Nimbus Music Publishing. Her music has been featured on nearly 100 commercial CDs. Since 2013, Nimbus Records has been recording her complete works. She is currently a University Professor of Composition in Music at The University of Chicago. Thomas played piano as a young child, starting private lessons at age four.  In third grade, she took up the trumpet and played for 14 years, attending Northwestern University as a trumpet performance major.  She played trumpet in brass quintet, chamber orchestra, orchestra, band, and Jazz band and she sang in choirs for many years.Thomas also had the distinction of having her work performed more frequently in 2013-2014 than any other living composer, according to statistics from performing rights organization ASCAP.MUSICAL EXCERPTS (in order)Words of the Sea  for orchestra (3rd movement)Chicago Symphony OrchestraPierre Boulez, conductorCarillon Sky  for violin and chamber orchestraBaird Dodge, violinChicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW ensembleOliver Knussen, conductorAugusta Read Thomas official websiteSUPPORT THIS PODCASTPatreonDonorboxORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV'S NEWEST RELEASEIridescent NotationLINKSYouTube channelOfficial WebsiteTwitterInstagramEdition Impronta, publisher of Samuel Andreyev's scoresEPISODE CREDITSPodcast artwork photograph © 2019 Philippe StirnweissSupport the show (http://www.patreon.com/samuelandreyev)

durée : 01:00:03 - Écrit sur consort - Une heure avec George Benjamin et Henry Purcell - par : Thomas Vergracht - Compositeur et chef d'orchestre, George Benjamin est l'un des noms les plus marquants du répertoire contemporain. Sa musique n'est pas sans évoquer certaines filiations comme son pays le Royaume-Uni, et la musique d'Henry Purcell en particulier. - réalisé par : Céline Parfenoff

On episode four hundred and forty-four, the story of George Benjamin Jr is told and all stories from September and October will be recipients from World War 2. A big thank you goes out to this month's show sponsor, Motor City Munitions. Use promo code TALESOFHONOR for 5% off of your online order today! All your firearm related needs with service so fast it can only come from the Motor City: https://www.motorcitymunitions.com/ Also want to support the show? Check out the show swag where 50% of profits get donated to the Medal of Honor Museum: https://bit.ly/TOHswag Be sure to visit our website for more information as the show goes on at: www.talesofhonorpodcast.com. Thanks for listening and be sure to share with friends and family!

Ever since he was a child, Sir George Benjamin wanted to be a composer. At only twenty years of age, his piece ‘Ringed by the Flat Horizon' was played at the BBC Proms. Fourty years on and the MCO, under George's baton, will present the world premiere of ‘Concerto for Orchestra' at the same event. Tune in as host Yannick Dondelinger explores the uniqueness of this new work – composed for and dedicated to the MCO – and delves into the utterly fascinating mind of one of classical music's most beloved and inspiring creators.

A palimpsest is a manuscript whose original text has been scraped or washed away and overwritten with a new one, often many times over. The original text is still present but visible only in fragments. This concept has inspired composers to overlay music in similar ways to fascinating effect. We feature a small sample of musical palimpsests. Music by Kevin Ernste, George Benjamin, Paul Novak and Gabriel Kahane.

This summer on the Mind Over Finger Podcast, I promise you a fantastic time with wonderful guests! Every month I'm having a live Q&A with amazing musicians in my Facebook group, the Mind Over Finger Tribe and, as to be expected, much wisdom is being shared! We start with pianist Konstantin Soukhovetski, we continue in May with violinist Callum Smart, in June you'll hear from trumpet player Christopher Still from Honesty Pill, July will bring violinist Esther Abrami, and we'll spend time with guitarist Brandon Jack Acker in August. I hope you can join us live for the upcoming sessions. All of the details are in the Mind Over Finger Tribe at facebook.com/groups/mindoverfingertribe.   If you're enjoying today's content, take a screenshot as you're listening, share on social and tag me and my guest so we can thank you for tuning in!     Frustrated with your playing?  Unsatisfied with you career?  Ready for a change? Whatever your challenge, you don't have to go at it alone, and I can help.  Visit www. https://www.mindoverfinger.com/workwithme to learn more and book your call and let's discuss how to get you from where you are to where you want to be.   THE MUSIC MASTERY EXPERIENCE will be back in June 2021.  This is my LIFE CHANGING, highly personalized group coaching program where I show you how to implement mindful & effective practice techniques, how to make them habits, and how to get RESULTS. Save your spot at http://www.mindoverfinger.com/mme and get access to some really cool bonuses.     MORE ABOUT CALLUM SMART: Website: https://www.callumsmart.com/ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ecn1-p8BqHqeliOh-_weg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/callumsmartviolin/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/callumsmartviolin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CallumLSmart Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32598434&fan_landing=true   “…the sincerity of Smart's singing line is cause for celebration, and the recital is quite outstanding in its unique sequence and profile of a superb young player.” Andrew Parker, International Record Review Callum Smart is quickly developing an international reputation as one of Britain's finest young violinists. Playing with ‘an inherent nobility that speaks to the heart' (International Record Review), he is celebrated for combining ‘brilliant technique with the confidence to take risks' (Bachtrack) and his ‘utterly convincing' interpretations (BBC Music Magazine). Recognised as a rising star since winning the BBC Young Musician strings category and being the top European prize-winner at the Menuhin Competition in 2010, Smart now enjoys concert appearances with the UK's leading orchestras, including re-invitations to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra. In 2020-21, Callum makes his debut with the Hallé Orchestra performing Korngold's Violin Concerto, and also a Boston debut with the Lexington Symphony Orchestra performing Elgar's Violin Concerto. Last season, he made his debut with the BBC Philharmonic performing Berg's Violin Concerto, and this season sees his return to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and debut with the Manchester Camerata. Previous season highlights include his North American debut with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as performances with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus Sinfonia and Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, covering a range of concerto repertoire from Mozart and Beethoven to Glazunov, Britten, Prokofiev, Elgar, Weill, and Korngold. As a recitalist, Smart performs at some of the world's most prestigious venues including London's Wigmore Hall, the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, and at a number of European festivals including the Cheltenham Festival, Dvorak Festival in Prague, Menuhin Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Malmo International String Festival. Smart's partnership with Richard Uttley continues this season with recitals across the UK; they are also joined by horn player Ben Goldscheider for a series of concerts as The Ashwell Trio. Continuing his advocacy for new music, Smart worked with composer George Benjamin to perform his Three Pieces for solo violin at both the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Northern College of Music. He also performed Kaija Saariaho's Nocturne for solo violin at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. Now with two recital discs to his name, 2016 saw the release of Smart's second disc on the Orchid Classics Label with pianist Richard Uttley. ‘La Voix' – including works by Fauré, Poulenc and Ravel – featured as one of the Strad Magazine's recommended recordings of the month, and was accorded 4 star reviews both in the BBC Music Magazine and the Observer. Having returned to the UK following his Premier Young Artist scholarship at the Jacobs School of Music in the United States studying with Mauricio Fuks, Smart took up a place on the International Artist Diploma postgraduate course at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) studying with Ana Chumachenco and Noah Bendix-Bagley. Having made an immediate impact on his return, he was subsequently appointed as a violin tutor at the RNCM. Smart plays on a c.1730-35 violin by Carlo Bergonzi and is a Hattori Foundation Award Winner 2019.   Join the Mind Over Finger Tribe for access to my weekly live videos and to exchange with a community of like-minded musicians   Visit www.mindoverfinger.com and sign up for my newsletter to get your free guide to an exceptionally productive practice using the metronome.  This guide is the perfect entry point to help you bring more mindfulness and efficiency into your practice and it's filled with tips and tricks on how to use that wonderful tool to take your practicing and your playing to new heights.     THANK YOU: A HUGE thank you to my fantastic producer, Bella Kelly, who works really hard to make this podcast as pleasant to listen to as possible for you. Most sincere thank you to composer Jim Stephenson who graciously provided the show's musical theme.  Concerto #1 for Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra – Movement 2: Allegro con Brio, performed by Jeffrey Work, trumpet, and the Lake Forest Symphony, conducted by Jim Stephenson. Thank you to Susan Blackwell for the introduction.  You can find out more about Susan, her fantastic podcast The Spark File, and her work helping creatives of all backgrounds expand their impact by visiting https://www.susanblackwell.com/home.   MIND OVER FINGER: www.mindoverfinger.com https://www.facebook.com/mindoverfinger/ https://www.instagram.com/mindoverfinger/

In this episode of Open Lid, 2009 Honens Laureate Gilles Vonsattel discusses his  preparation to record Sir George Benjamin's  Shadowlines, including working with the composer himself, with Catherine McClelland,  Honens Director, Artistic Planning. Learn more about Gilles on his website: gillesvonsattel.com

As we commemorate 50 years of the death of Igor Stravinsky, Tom Service explores how his music continues to resonate in today's world, how his legacy has been in effect reinvented, from contemporary composition to film scores, from digital sampling in pop to the language of jazz, and also in the world of dance. With contributions from the composers George Benjamin, Anders Hillborg, Shiva Feshareki and Helen Grime, explaining how Stravinsky's music has shaped their work and their lives; from the musicologists Marina Frolova-Walker, Robert Fink and Jonathan Cross, who elaborate on how Stravinsky has been reinvented on many different contexts since his death; and we also hear from the dancer and choreographer Seeta Patel, who reinterpreted the iconic ballet 'Rite of Spring' within South Indian classical dance traditions. Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo

Charlotte Mundy is a vocalist who specializes in music that is new, daring and sublime. She has been called a "daredevil with an unbreakable spine" (SF Classical Voice). Recent performances include George Benjamin’s one-act opera Into the Little Hill at the 92nd Street Y and a set of music for voice and electronics presented by New York Festival of Song, described as "an oasis of radiant beauty" by the New York Times. In summer of 2021, Mundy will present a sound, light and smell installation called Light as a Feather at the Harvestworks House on Governor's Island. She is a core member of Ekmeles vocal ensemble. On this episode, Laura and Marina interview Charlotte about TAK's beginnings and about her life outside of TAK. To dive deeper into Charlotte's work, go to http://charlottemundy.com To download TAK's most recent album, Star Maker Fragments, go to https://takensemble.bandcamp.com/album/star-maker-fragments

Un día como hoy, 31 de enero. Nace: 1624, Arnold Geulincx. 1788, Felice Romani. 1797, Franz Schubert. 1866, Lev Shestov. 1916, Carlos Jiménez Mabarak. 1921, Mario Lanza. 1935, Kenzaburō Ōe. 1937, Philip Glass. 1960, George Benjamin. Fallece: 1866, Friedrich Rückert. Una Producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2021

Donald Macleod is joined by Sir George Benjamin to discuss his musical influences Composer of the Week marks the sixtieth birthday of the celebrated British composer Sir George Benjamin. This week, Benjamin joins Donald Macleod in the studio to provide listeners with personal insights into his music and distinguished career. They discuss the composer's musical connections, his inspirations, his interest in collaboration, the compositional process, and his work as a pianist, conductor and teacher. Music Featured: Viola, Viola Piano Sonata (Vivace) Palimpsests Written on Skin (XIV & XV The Protector of Agnès & The Boy / Angel 1) Panorama Tape A Mind of Winter Dance Figures Dream of the Song Piano Figures At First Light Written on Skin (VIII The Protector of Agnès) Upon Silence Ringed by the Flat Horizon Into the Little Hill (Scene VI & VII) Lessons in Love and Violence (Sc.3 Please everyone be seated) Sometime Voices Three Inventions for Chamber Orchestra Shadowlines Lessons in Love and Violence (Sc.1 Not when you grip my neck) Duet for Piano and Orchestra Presented by Donald Mcleod Produced by Luke Whitlock, for BBC Wales Photo credit: Matthew Lloyd For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for George Benjamin https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q36p And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Autor: Seidel, Änne Sendung: Kultur heute Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Berichte, Meinungen, Rezensionen "Superspreader" - Das neue Stück von Albert Ostermaier am Münchner Residenztheater Freiheitskampf - "Written on skin" von George Benjamin und Martin Crimp an der Oper Köln Am Abgrund - Die Folgen der Corona-Pandemie für Italiens Kulturszene Erklärer der portugiesischen Seele - Zum Tod des Philosophen Edouardo Lourenço Am Mikrofon: Änne Seidel

Festivali Présences avakontsert Inglise dirigendi ja helilooja Sir George Benjaminiga, kes tänavu tähistas oma 60. sünnipäeva.

Festivali Présences avakontsert Inglise dirigendi ja helilooja Sir George Benjaminiga, kes tänavu tähistas oma 60. sünnipäeva.

In this episode, Les chats with we're speaking with Hungarian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó from her home in Toronto. Highly sought after in North America and Europe on both opera stages and concert halls, Krisztina has an impressive repertoire ranging from Bach to Claude Vivier as well as several world premieres, including George Benjamin's opera Lessons in Love and Violence which was nominated for a Grammy award. She last appeared at Vancouver Opera as Donna Elvira in the 2014 production of Don Giovanni. We are thrilled to welcome Krisztina to Vancouver, who has recently been appointed Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera at the UBC School of Music.Check out our special features for the episode, including Krisztina's Spotify playlist, Les's Spotify Pick of the Week and more at www.vancouveropera.ca/offstage!Support the show (http://tickets.vancouveropera.ca/dev/contribute.aspx)

In an archive interview from March 2016, Ben Eshmade speaks to composer George Benjamin and counter tenor Iestyn Davies, just before the premiere of the then new work, Dream of the Song, performed as part of a three concert series, entitled 'Benjamin at the Barbican'. This podcast has turned out to be a document of the composer and the composition process just before the premiere of this piece. From the Archive sees us dig into our extensive contemporary and classical music and cinema podcast archive as we rediscover interviews and discussions with artists, with our long-standing producer and presenter, Ben Eshmade. Subscribe to Nothing Concrete on Acast, Spotify, iTunes or wherever you find your podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pianist Keval Shah talks to Alex about classical music by living composers. Keval and Alex discuss music by Hannah Kendall, John Adams, and George Benjamin.

St. Helena is a tiny volcanic island off of the coast of southwestern Africa. This small island was completely uninhabited when it was discovered in 1502, but was covered in plants whose closest cousins were thousands of miles away. On this episode, I cover the St. Helena Olive, one of what was likely the rarest plants on earth before its disappearance in 2003.Sources:Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism (1600 - 1860) by Richard GroveIcones Plantarum, Or Figures, With Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks, Of New and Rare Plants Selected from the Kew Herbarium by Joseph Dalton Hooker (finished by his son, William Jackson Hooker)https://sthelena.se/index/olive/http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:717646-1#image-galleryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_HelenaThe radio announcement of the death of the St. Helena Olive: https://sainthelenaisland.info/endemics.htmInformation about the Millennium Forest Project: https://sainthelenaisland.info/millenniumforest.htmGrove, R. (1993) Conserving Eden: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1017/S0010417500018399Cronk (1989) The past and present vegetation of St Helena More information about George Benjamin: http://sthelenaonline.org/george-benjamin-the-man-who-saved-the-st-helena-ebony/https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/37598/67372241#text-fields 

My friend and wildlife photographer George and I talk about wildlife photography, conservation, photographing otters on the isle of mull, how to become a wildlife photographer and responsibilities a wildlife photographer has in our changing world. If you liked the podcast please leave a positive feedback on apple podcast to help the podcast grow and get recognized. George on instagram: @Georgetheexplorer Website: Georgetheexplorer.com Alessandro on instagram: @Alessandroxsgro Website: alessandrosgro.myportfolio.com

durée : 01:59:52 - Musique matin du vendredi 07 février 2020 - par : Jean-Baptiste Urbain - Le Festival Présences propose cette année, pour sa 30e édition, une monographie de George Benjamin, soit l'un des plus grands compositeurs anglais contemporains : c'est donc ce dernier que nous recevons ce matin. - réalisé par : Yassine Bouzar

durée : 00:05:46 - Classique info du mercredi 05 février 2020 - par : Sofia Anastasio - L'Opéra de Sydney va fermer ses portes durant 2 ans. Le Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles lance une académie et des résidences. Nous apprenons également que Barbara Hannigan ne chantera pas dans l'Opéra de George Benjamin à la Philharmonie dans le cadre du Festival Présences.

Vienas ryškiausių anglų kompozitorių ir dirigentų, pelnęs pasaulinį pripažinimą. Laidos autoriai ir vedėjai Šarūnas Nakas ir Mindaugas Urbaitis.

Un compositeur à l'honneur au festival "Présence 2020": George BENJAMIN

Avui obrim el nostre calaix de novetats en CD i en DVD. Entre d'altres, "Lohengrin" gravat a Bayreuth, la premi

Avui obrim el nostre calaix de novetats en CD i en DVD. Entre d'altres, "Lohengrin" gravat a Bayreuth, la premi

Lord Stirrup, former Chief of the Defence Staff, talks to Michael Berkeley about his passion for music from Renaissance motets to twenty-first-century opera. Jock Stirrup was lucky to survive when a bird hit one of the engines of his Jaguar jet in 1983. With the cockpit glass obscured and one engine on fire, he chose not to eject from the plane, but to try to land it to save the life of his student pilot. For this he was awarded the Air Force Cross. This calm under pressure served him well as he rose through the ranks of the RAF, commanding forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and becoming Chief of the Defence Staff – the head of all the UK’s armed forces – until his retirement in 2011. A member of the Order of the Garter, he now sits as a cross-bencher in the House of Lords and has spoken critically about the regime in Russia and equipment shortages for troops in Iraq. He talks to Michael about the pressures of commanding forces, dealing with casualties, and speaking out on behalf of the men and women in the armed forces. Less well known is Jock Stirrup’s lifelong love of classical music. Now he’s retired he spends as much time as he can listening to music live, and he’s chosen pieces that span five centuries and many genres – a motet by Josquin Des Prez, music by Bach and by Mendelssohn, part of George Benjamin’s 2012 opera Written on Skin, and music from Die Walküre, illustrating the passion he’s had for Wagner from his schooldays. Producer: Jane Greenwood A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3

Een paar fijne nieuwe releases, maar ook aandacht voor het Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival dat momenteel in Zutphen en Amsterdam gaande is. En prachtige Renaissance koormuziek: liturgische muziek uit Engeland uit het begin van de 16e eeuw, gezongen door Blue Heron onder leiding van Scott Metcalfe. Met muziek van George Benjamin en William Hurlstone door het Berkeley Ensemble, Diana Blom, John McCabe, Franz Schubert, Aspasia Nasopoulou, Nicholas Ludford en Henning Fuchs.

durée : 02:58:52 - Été Classique Matin du mardi 23 juillet 2019 - par : Judith Chaine - Au menu du jour, Monteverdi, George Benjamin, Mozart, Roussel, Gershwin et bien d’autres ! Et pour commencer je suis d’humeur tendre alors … Je vous invite à prolonger quelques minutes vos songes en écoutant la berceuse d’Arnalta dans le Couronnement de Poppée de Monteverdi… Laissez-vous bercer ! - réalisé par : Béatrice Trichet

Author James Charlesworth joins Daniel Ford at the PRX Podcast Garage in Allston, Mass., to chat about his debut The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill. To learn more about James Charlesworth, visit his official website and follow him on Twitter. Also read our review of The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill in June’s “Books That Should Be On Your Radar.”  Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and OneRoom.

durée : 01:00:10 - George Benjamin, compositeur, pianiste et chef d'orchestre - par : Arnaud Merlin - réalisé par : Patrick Lérisset

durée : 01:00:07 - Guerriers et amoureux - par : Lionel Esparza - Le contre-ténor Xavier Sabata et le compositeur George Benjamin sont les invités du Classic Club, c'est en direct et en public depuis l'Hôtel Bedford à Paris. - réalisé par : Antoine Courtin

Christopher Cerrone is back with us for Composers Drinking Whisky - Part 2! In this episode, we throw names of composers at Chris, and he tells us what he thinks. We cast a wide net, touching on people like Bach (of the "J.S." variety), Beethoven, Poulenc, Mozart, Wagner, Puccini, Ravel, Bartók, Hildegaard von Bingen, John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, Steven Sondheim, Dvořák, Janáček, Debussy, Kaija Saariaho, and George Benjamin, to name a few! The conversation is fun, we listen to some awesome music, and Chris reveals what is "crying opera" is!

21-ojo amžiaus operos: George Benjamin (*1960) „Written on skin” („Parašyta ant odos”, 2012). Laidos vedėjai Šarūnas Nakas ir Mindaugas Urbaitis.

21-ojo amžiaus operos: George Benjamin (*1960) „Written on skin” („Parašyta ant odos”, 2012). Laidos vedėjai Šarūnas Nakas ir Mindaugas Urbaitis.

Tom Service talks to Christopher Purves, one of the most theatrically and musically vivid bass-baritones on opera stages around the world. Christopher shares his love of Handel, his need to communicate to audiences, discusses how to connect with the darker characters of the repertoire, including The Protector, a role he created for George Benjamin's acclaimed opera, Written on Skin, and talks of his current project, Golaud in Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande. Michael Volpe from Opera Holland Park and Polly Graham, Artistic Director of Longborough Festival Opera join Tom in the studio, to discover if Summer Festival opera companies can advance the art-form, as well as serve the audiences who come for the experience, and Antony Feeny, economist and researcher discusses the business model of these festivals. Music and Maths - Tom explores the spaghetti-like interconnectedness of these two ancient disciplines with Eli Maor, whose new book 'Music By The Numbers' shows how musical ideas have inspired mathematicians over the ages, and Eugenia Cheng, mathematician and musician, who sees a musical-like creativity in maths, and a logic in all classical composition. The Yorkshire Young Sinfonia became the first youth orchestra to play concerts reading their scores from tablets. Some professional orchestras use this technology too. Tom finds out what are the benefits and limitations surrounding digital technology on the concert platform.

Am 10. Mai feierte die neue George Benjamin-Oper "Lessons in Love and Violence" Premiere im Royal Opera House in London. Ein Kollegengespräch mit Jörn Florian Fuchs über den Abend.

Katie Mitchell talks about her time directing Opera. Katie Mitchell is one of the few senior women working in opera in Britain and mainland Europe today. She has worked here at English National Opera, The Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne Festival and Welsh National Opera. She is currently opening the revival of George Benjamin’s Written on Skin at the Royal Opera House whilst preparing for George Benjamin’s second commission scheduled for 2018. She has also worked extensively in Germany, France, Austria and Scandinavia at houses like The Staatsoper, Berlin, The Salzburg Festival and Royal Danish Opera. She is currently a resident artist at The Aix en Provence Festival where she has directed five operas including Pelleas and Melisande and Handel’s Alcina. IN her first ‘Conversation’, she will describe her background in theatre and how she fell into opera to become one of its leading international lights.

On the eve of the BAFTA awards, film critic Peter Bradshaw presents a personal selection of music from cinema and beyond: from Hannibal Lecter's favourite Bach, to Katharine Hepburn as Clara Schumann, and a Handel aria used in a chilling Michael Haneke horror film. Plus Peter's memories of his days at Cambridge University alongside star student George Benjamin, and his own youthful endeavours with composition lessons and the classical guitar.

Breaking Free - the minds that changed music. Tom Service explores how to listen to the Second Viennese School - music that exploded with expressive feeling in the early years of the 20th century, and then gradually rebuilt harmony into a new system, using the 12-note series. He explains how the music developed from Arnold Schoenberg's early expressionist ventures into atonality, to the cool jewel-like precision of his pupil Anton Webern. In conversation with art historian Lisa Florman, he finds parallels in the painter Wassily Kandinsky's journey towards abstraction and his theories of shapes and colours. (Kandinsky was a friend of Schoenberg). And composer George Benjamin describes the intricate structures of Webern's music, which greatly inspired his own compositions.

Am 27. Februar gibt der 1960 geborene britische Komponist und Dirigent George Benjamin im Rahmen des musica viva-Wochenendes ein Konzert mit dem SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg. Bernhard Neuhoff unterhielt sich mit dem vielseitigen Mussiker.

The death of one of the 20th century's most important composers and conductors, Pierre Boulez, was announced today. Sir Nicholas Kenyon, MD of The Barbican and former Radio 3 Controller, and composer George Benjamin who worked with Boulez, discuss this hugely influential figure. Throughout this week we're hearing from each of the category winners in the 2015 Costa Book Awards, which were announced on Front Row on Monday. Today we hear from Andrea Wulf, winner of the Biography category for her historical book The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humbolt, The Lost Hero of Science, who lived from 1769-1859. Stand-up and writer Meryl O'Rourke reviews Tracey Ullman's Show which brings the comedian back to British TV screens for the first time in 30 years. A new film documentary Bolshoi Babylon gives us unprecedented access to the power struggles behind the scenes at Russia's most famous theatre, including the widely-reported acid attack in 2013 on the Bolshoi's former lead dancer and artistic director Sergei Filin that left him almost blind. The film's two co-directors Nick Read and Mark Franchetti discuss the challenges of dealing with the Kremlin-sponsored elites, the political divisions and the professional jealousies among the dancers and the management. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Rebecca Armstrong

An introduction to TSO Futurist-in-Residence Sanjay Khanna. Plus, we check in on George Benjamin and Chris Paul Harman at the 2015 New Creations Festival.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to George Benjamin in the kitchen at his home in West London. He explains why he chooses to keep his composing room at the top of the house private, how he spends time in silence on a futon in his workspace when starting on a composition, and why he uses coloured pens in his sketches.

The year 2013 saw plenty of headline-making moments in classical music. Protesters came to the opening night of the Met, while a stagehands strike cancelled the opening night at Carnegie Hall. There were heated debates over women conductors and some complicated celebrations for Richard Wagner. It was another tough year for some orchestras but a good one for Benjamin Britten fans. In this edition of Conducting Business, three experts talk about the past year: Anne Midgette, classical music critic of the Washington Post; Justin Davidson, classical music and architecture critic for New York magazine; and Heidi Waleson, a classical music critic for the Wall Street Journal. High Points: Anne: In the year that Van Cliburn died, Anne was particularly excited to hear the 22-year-old Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov: “Trifonov is a pianist whom I find totally exciting. I hear a lot of great concerts in the course of a year but I find that Trifonov has something really special and is a really interesting artist and somebody I look forward to hearing again and again.” Justin on Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra's staging of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro at the Mostly Mozart Festival: “One of things I really liked about it was it was one of these really portable productions. It was done in a concert hall with the orchestra on stage, no sets, minimal props, costumes that were taken off a clothes rack that was sitting on the stage…With minimal resources they produced one of the most effervescent and inventive productions I’ve seen of that opera. What it said to me is how much you can do with how little.” [Read more of Justin's picks at NYMag.com] Heidi: George Benjamin’s Written on Skin, given its U.S. premiere at Tanglewood in August: “So often you see these new operas and you think, ‘Why did they bother? Why did you turn this movie or this book into an opera?' This was a completely new piece of writing and it had a tension to it from beginning to end. It has a fantastically colorful and intricate orchestration, which includes a solo moment for the viola da gamba." Listen to Written on Skin on Q2 Music   Low Point: The closing of New York City Opera in October after a last-ditch campaign to raise funds for its 2014 season fell through. Anne: “It is not a sign that New York can’t support two opera companies. It is a sign that, due to poor decisions on behalf of the board and a whole sequence of events, this particular thing happened that really didn’t need to happen.” Justin: "One thing that you can take away from that is it is really the product of a classical music and operatic infrastructure that, over the years, got overextended. While we have learned how to expand, trying to do planned shrinkage and figure out how to contract” is tougher for the classical music business. "If you have union contracts and have a season that establishes a kind of baseline, it’s very, very difficult to say ‘we need this to be smaller.’” Heidi: “It was unable to come up with a convincing audience strategy, opera house strategy or even artistic strategy. They did try a few things that I thought were quite interesting – doing for example A Quiet Place, a Leonard Bernstein opera that had never been done in New York… They were in fact trying to reestablish themselves as something that was alternative to the Met, that was a little more forward-looking, and I think it’s really a shame that they couldn’t.” Trends: Anne: The spotlight in 2013 turned to women – women conductors, women composers. “Classical music has proven to have a particularly thick glass ceiling. People are looking at the situation and saying, ‘It’s been years people, why do we still not have very many female conductors on the podium? And when we do, why is it such a big deal?’ There’s still that funny ambivalence about how far we should look at this as a phenomenon and how far we should pretend we’ve all been equal all along.” Justin: The lack of women on major podiums is “a sign of the difficulty that the whole establishment has in adapting at all. What happens is these institutions are very rigid and brittle and when they come up against an obstacle they know that they’re going to splinter and so they avoid the obstacles. It’s a very inflexible set of relationships… Heidi: “The New York Philharmonic seems to be about 50 percent women these days – so why not on the podium?” Justin on the arrival of alternative opera and non-traditional performance venues, as seen in events like the Prototype Festival: “With the cost of real estate in New York, companies are finding cheaper venues and the technology has matured enough so all that you really need is a pretty small room and a fairly minimal investment in machinery to be able to put on a pretty sophisticated multimedia event." Heidi: “There are other organizations doing similar kinds of things: The Gotham Chamber Opera put on a Cavalli opera [Eliogabalo] in a burlesque club... It attracts a different kind of audience. You can break through some of the formality of going to the opera house and sitting in the velvet seat and watching the gold curtain go up."   Surprises: Justin: Caroline Shaw, a 30-year-old New York composer, violinist and singer (right), became the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize in music for her Partita for 8 Voices (heard at the start of this segment). “It has a quality that almost no contemporary music has, which is joy. It’s something that we’ve forgotten is part of the classical music tradition and an important one.”  Anne: “It’s interesting in that [Shaw] doesn’t even self-identify as a composer but as a violinist. The Pulitzer has been very eager to expand its reach and get outside of the norm of what had been deemed Pulitzer-worthy over the years and I think this is a sign that this is happening.” Heidi on Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron’s musical of “Fun Home” at the Public Theater: "I see a lot of new operas, and so many of them are overblown, trying so hard that they feel stillborn. 'Fun Home,' based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, tells the story of a critical juncture in Alison’s life: she came out as a lesbian in college, and several months later, her father, whom she had just found out was a closeted gay man, killed himself by walking in front of a truck. The piece uses music in the way that you wish these new operas would – to deeply explore feelings in a raw, immediate way." (Note: this "bonus pick" did not make it into the podcast.)   Listen to the full discussion above and tell us: what were your high and low points in classical music in 2013? Photo credits: Shutterstock; Caroline Shaw by Piotr Redliński, 2013

con Alessandro Solbiati

Liebe, Lust und Grausamkeit - Mit der tragischen Oper "Written on Skin" von George Benjamin verabschiedet sich Generalmusikdirektor Kent Nagano von der Bayerischen Staatsoper. Nach der Uraufführung in Aix-en-provence kam das Werk nun nach München. Robert Jungwirth hat die Münchner Premiere gesehen.

Matthew Sweet talks to Booker-nominated novelist Julia O'Faolain about her new memoir and growing up with her father, a celebrated writer and a radical dissident. Helen Wallace reviews George Benjamin's and Martin Crimp's new opera, ‘Written on Skin'. Professor Nora Crook explains how she discovered who really censored Shelley's notorious poem, ‘The Revolt of Islam'. Marcus Chown reviews The Challenger, a new docu-drama about the investigation into the 1986 space shuttle disaster. And we debate whether the use of words like ‘unacceptable' and ‘inappropriate' are part of a tendency to avoid casting strong moral judgements.

Portraying the PM on stage; artist Yinka Shonibare: the return of Lara Croft; actor Mark Strong; author Tash Aw; artist Chuck Close and George Benjamin and Martin Crimp on their opera Written on Skin.

Gillian Moore champions George Benjamin’s early orchestral score At First Light, praising its “extraordinary detail and skill”; while writer and critic Paul Griffiths assesses the significance of the work for British composing in the 1980s.

On St George's Day Andrew Marr discusses national identity and belonging. The playwright David Hare has written a companion piece to a Terrence Rattigan play, set in an English public school. George Benjamin is celebrated as one of England's leading composers, but how far is his work shaped by the French musical tradition? The Scottish writer Iain Banks discusses his novel, Stonemouth, set in a town north of Aberdeen and vividly evoking a sense of place and identity. And Rachel Seiffert examines what happens when an Ulster girl marries a Glaswegian boy, in her latest short story, Hands Across the Water.Producer: Katy Hickman.

Interviews with George Benjamin and Sir Charles Mackerras