GEORGE BENJAMIN

Into the Little Hall (2006)

36:58

A lyric tale in two parts for soprano, contralto and ensemble of 15 players

Text by Martin Crimp

Part One

1

I

The Crowd

0:50

Kill them they bite/kill them they steal

2

II

The Minister and the Crowd

2:49

The Minister greets the crowd

3

III

The Crowd

1:42

Kill them they bite/kill them they steal

4

IV

The Minister and the Stranger

8:32

Night comes but not sleep

5

V

INTERLUDE

6:32

Mother and Child

Why must the rats die, Mummy?

Part Two

6

VI

Inside the Minister's Head

3:43

Under a clear sky/the Minister steps from the limousine

7

VII

The Minister and the Stranger

5:52

His head lies on his desk/between the family photograph

8

VIII

INTERLUDE

6:58

Mother(s) and Child(ren)

Each cradle rocks empty

Anu Komsi - The Crowd, The Stranger, Narrator, The Minister's Child

Hilary Summers - The Crowd, Narrator, The Minister, The Minister's Wife

Franck Ollu

9-11 November 2007

Dance Figures (2004)

16:01

Nine Choreographic scenes for orchestra

9

1

Spell

1:25

10

2

Recit

2:01

11

3

In the Mirror

1:00

12

4

Interruptions

2:06

13

5

Song

1:24

14

6

Hammers

2:03

15

7

Alone

1:12

16

8

Olicantus

3:28

17

9

Whirling

1:22

29 March 2008

Oliver Knussen

18

Sometime Voices (1996)

10:09

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices,

[That, if I then had waked after long sleep,

Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,

The clouds methought would open, and show riches

Ready to drop upon me; that,] when I waked,

I cried to dream again.

Caliban, The Tempest, Act III, Scene II

Dietrich Henschel baritone

Kent Nagano

13 February 2005