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Mother Goose
The music
The performers
- George Benjamin conductor
Let your imagination run wild.
A book of fairytales, painted in a thousand subtle and ravishing sounds. A symphony transformed into a multicoloured vortex of desire; and another, split into pieces and rebuilt as a musical monument. Sounds fantastic? You’d expect nothing less when Sir George Benjamin is conducting. The LPO’s new Composer-in-Residence is a sonic alchemist in his own right – a composer who transforms subtle and exquisite sounds into vast emotional landscapes. He’ll conduct his own work Palimpsests, too: music inspired by the many different tales written on medieval manuscripts, and framed tonight by masterpieces that set Benjamin’s own imagination on fire.
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As with everything Benjamin writes, the [music] gleams, all the sonic ingredients individuated, clarity and intricate detail turning every player into a soloist.
The Guardian
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