Availability

Score 0-571-50848-0 on sale (with Meditation on Haydn's Name)

Programme Notes

Relativity Rag begins with a simple two-section Rag-time. As it progresses, however, things begin to change – phrases are cut up like bits of film, the tempi of the hands separate, the harmony distorts and eventually the Rag is transformed beyond recognition. It re-forms out of a dense cloud of sound towards the end, and briefly flourishes before being finally crushed and sent spinning off the top of the keyboard.

© George Benjamin

Relativity Rag

Théâtre Bernadette Lafont (Nîmes, France)

Jean-Francois Heisser/Carole Roth/Laurent Camatte

Relativity Rag

Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan, Italy)

Erik Bertsch

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Relativity Rag

WP of Concerto for Orchestra and Purcell Orchestrations

Royal Albert Hall (London, United Kingdom)

Mahler Chamber Orchestra/George Benjamin

Relativity Rag

One Etude

Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London, United Kingdom)

Tamara Stefanovich

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Relativity Rag

Wigmore Hall (London, United Kingdom)

RNCM Students