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George Benjamin: Ringed by the Flat Horizon at the BBC Proms 2008

Ringed by the Flat Horizon
6.8.08, Royal Albert Hall, London: Carolin Widmann/BBC SO/George Benjamin

‘No British composer since Benjamin Britten has announced himself so decisively as George Benjamin did in 1980 with his first orchestral work.  Benjamin composed Ringed By the Flat Horizon when he was 19 and a first-year undergraduate at Cambridge.  Almost 30 years later, it still seems a wondrous achievement, with the formal confidence, understanding of instrumental colour and texture, and lucid harmonic sense that have characterised his music ever since.
Carefully unwrapping the instrumental layers and shaping the lyrical details, the performance perfectly conveyed the sense of tense expectation that pervades the work [Ringed By the Flat Horizon].’
The Guardian (Andrew Clements), 8 August 2008


‘On an extra-humid night in SW7, this authentically oppressive evocation of a gathering thunderstorm [Ringed by the Flat Horizon], shot through with pungent effects and paced with absolute surety, sounded better than ever.’
The Times (Neil Fisher), 8 August 2008

‘…an electrifying performance that captured the music’s extremes of sudden stormy violence and uncanny stillness… Not every brilliant debut by a precocious 19-year-old bears rehearing 28 years later, but this is certainly one of them.’
Daily Telegraph (Ivan Hewett), 7 August 2008

 

 
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