Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Upon Silence sets Long-legged Fly, a late poem of Yeats which portrays three momentous figures in history absorbed in silent contemplation: Julius Caesar planning a crucial military campaign, Helen of Troy as an adolescent in Sparta and Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. The verses are set in a syllabic manner, while each successive chorus is set to increasingly lengthy melismas as, like the long-legged fly above water, the voice hovers above the strings. For Mezzo Soprano with String Ensemble. / Niveau : Elémentaire / Répertoire / Voix et Ensemble Instrumental

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