Into the Little Hill

乔治-本杰明 2006 年创作的室内歌剧《走进小山村》自 2006 年首演以来，在世界各地的演出广受好评。这是一部由女高音、女低音和 15 位演奏家（包括低音长笛、两支低音号、曼陀林、班卓琴和辛巴伦）合奏的抒情故事，是本杰明与马丁-克里姆普的首次合作

作曲家: Benjamin, George
出版社: Faber Music
原文简介:
Since its premiere in 2006, George Benjamin’s 2006 chamber opera Into the Little Hill has received critically acclaimed performances across the world. A lyric tale in two parts for soprano, contralto and ensemble of 15 players (coloured by bass flute, two bassset horns, mandolin, banjo and cimbalom), this strange retelling of the Pied Piper story was Benjamin’s first collaboration with Martin Crimp. ‘…it was the eerie beauty and uncanny originality of the music that made the dominant impression on me. The scoring is remarkable – for a sort of ‘alienated’ folk band … There are passages of ethereal delicacy, silken slowness, but these are contrasted with sudden fierceness, as in Benjamin’s recent orchestral Palimpsests. Bass timbres are beguiling, the tutti sound is at once bizarre and delectable: I wanted more of it.' The Sunday Times (Paul Driver), 3 December 2006