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Performer: Sir George Benjamin

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StockholmLessons in love

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Ravel, Sibelius, Chin, Benjamin
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Sir George Benjamin; Bertrand Chamayou; Barbara Hannigan

LondonFretwork 40th Anniversary

Wigmore Hall
Lawes, Britten, Vaughan Williams, Purcell, Benjamin, Pearsall, Schütz, Jenkins, Dowland, Couperin, Wollston, Various
Sir George Benjamin; Fretwork; Emilia Benjamin; Emily Ashton; Jonathan Rees

AmsterdamFrench lineages

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Benjamin, Lacôte, Obukhov, Ravel
Sir George Benjamin; Pierre-Laurent Aimard

ParisCarte blanche à George Benjamin

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Anderson, Ammann, Chin, Benjamin
Ensemble intercontemporain; Sir George Benjamin; Unknown; Ensemble Next; John Stulz; Ayano Kamei

LondonLondon Piano Festival: Divisions & Visions

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Benjamin, Messiaen
Charles Owen; Katya Apekisheva; Sir George Benjamin; Donald Macleod
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London Sinfonietta explodes fixed views of Boulez

Sir George Benjamin © Monika S Jakubowska
 Pierre Boulez died in 2016, but on this evidence of this exploration into …explosante-fixe…, his music will live on. 
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Ensemble Modern the ultimate precision instrument in Amsterdam

Sir George Benjamin conducts Ensemble Modern © Milagro Elstak
Sir George Benjamin conducts Ligeti and his own Into the Little Hill at the Concertgebouw. 
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Sounds of nature: Francesco Filidei world premiere in Berlin

Sir George Benjamin conducts Ensemble Modern © Fabian Schellhorn
At the Musikfest Berlin, Sir George Benjamin and the Ensemble Modern present an all-contemporary programme reflecting on nature, including Cantico delle Creature.
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Lessons in grief: Picture a day like this triumphs in Aix

Marianne Crebassa (The Woman) © Jean-Louis Fernandez
Sir George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s fourth opera shares the best qualities of their previous work but is an inspiring, breathtaking fable.
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Rhythm, colour and texture at the Elbphilharmonie

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra takes to the road again with a 20th-century programme of music by Janáček and Ravel, with Sir George Benjamin conducting Pierre-Laurent Aimard in one of his own compositions.

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Ensemble Modern at the Roundhouse

Bold and colourful invocations of twentieth-century classics from Ensemble Modern and composer George Benjamin.

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ParisGeorge Benjamin by George Benjamin

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Dukas, Rihm, Benjamin, Ravel
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; Sir George Benjamin; David Guerrier; Adélaïde Ferrière