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LPO/Benjamin review – music of crystalline clarity and hedonistic pleasure

George Benjamin conducted this meticulously programmed and beautifully executed concert of his own Palimpsests alongside music by Scriabin, Stravinsky and Ravel

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12

Aimard/Benjamin review – concentrated musical thought and pianistic imagination

George Benjamin joined Pierre-Laurent Aimard to give the UK premiere of his ingenious and compelling Divisions

The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2025

London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Gardner review – muscular Emperor sets up edge-of-the-seat finale

The LPO season opener saw Yefim Bronfman on keen form in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5, before the orchestra delivered a white-hot, bittersweet Tchaikovsky Fifth

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2025

Lucerne festival 2024 review – from blazing Bruckner to a Georgian wunderkind

Star turns by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Lisa Batiashvili and more delight, but much of this month-long festival’s power lies behind the scenes…

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2024

The week in classical: Picture a day like this; Peter Grimes; Carol Williams: Mad Rush – review

Sparkling musical invention pierces the gloom of George Benjamin’s mysterious new chamber opera; Britten’s masterpiece holds its own at ENO; and one woman, 7,866 pipes and resounding fun

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2023

Picture a day like this review – Benjamin’s modern fairytale of sparse and moving beauty

George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s enigmatic new work tells of a mother mourning the death of her child. If the dramatic pace is a little unvaried, its musical world is luminous and utterly distinctive

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2023

‘I threw my pop records in the bin’: George Benjamin on his defining moments – and his latest opera

As Picture a day Like this comes to the London stage, the composer speaks about finding his dream collaborator, entering ‘a different dimension’ with Olivier Messiaen – and the day Disney changed his life

The Guardian - UK · Sep 13, 2023

Ensemble Modern/Benjamin/Prohaska review – teetering on the edge of the atonal

Composer George Benjamin reunites with the contemporary music ensemble for an alternately fierce and delicate programme, with soprano Anna Prohaska a hypnotic standout

The Guardian - UK · Sep 13, 2023

If we defund opera saying it is for toffs, then only the toffs will go. Where’s the sense in that?

It is painful to see our top companies starved of funds and strangled by politics, while our best artists head abroad, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2023