Into the Little Hill

喬治-本傑明 2006 年創作的室內歌劇《走進小山村》自 2006 年首演以來，在世界各地的演出廣受好評。這是一部由女高音、女低音和 15 位演奏家（包括低音長笛、兩支低音號、曼陀林、班卓琴和辛巴倫）合奏的抒情故事，是本傑明與馬丁-克裡姆普的首次合作

作曲家: Benjamin, George
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
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