Germany's hottest new band demonstrates a surprisingly variable sound, from crisp to stately. Through constant collaboration with composers of various genres, it is not difficult for him to constantly change positions and gradations. In the era of Georges Benjamin and with a singer like Anna Prohaska who acts without inhibitions, the album becomes a delight. Not only in Benjamin's rhythms in the orchestration of Bach's “Art of the Fugue.” Even the cold chills of “Winter's Mind” glow with hypnotic softness. “The ‘double life’ of structure and imagination is essential to my music,” Benjamin says repeatedly. Here intense creativity triumphs and covers clear formal structures. Ensemble Modern asserts that Benjamin follows in the tradition of British composers such as Britten and Birtwistle with earnest cheerfulness.
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Benjamin: Al-Tabas, The Winter Mind and at First Light, J.S. Bach/Benjamin: The Art of Fugue (excerpt)
Anna Prohaska (soprano), modern ensemble, Georges Benjamin (conductor)
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