The multi-talented George Benjamin is back at the Holland Festival and back at the helm of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Regarded as one of the most important composers of his generation, certainly after the success of his operas Into the Little Hill and Written on Skin, the English composer conducts a programme with work of his own and compositions by Ravel, Ligeti and the young Scotswoman Helen Grime. The programme opens with Grime’s composition Everyone Sang from 2010, followed by Benjamin’s first orchestral work Ringed by the Flat Horizon. György Ligeti’s Double Concerto features two RCO soloists, Kersten McCall and Lucas Macías Navarro. The concert is concluded by Maurice Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole, in which he betrays his Basque roots with a broad gamut of tone-colour.
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Fri June 20 2014 10:15 PM
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Duration of performance unknown (inclusief een pauze)
