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Less is more in Picture a day like this with a cast of five and just 22 instrumentalists from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. With every word of the text set to be heard, Marianne Crebassa is... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Sep 2024
Catalogue No: NI8116
Label: Nimbus
Length: 59 minutes

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November 2024

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Benjamin, G: Picture A Day Like This, Scene 1: The Page

Work length4:20

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Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
George Benjamin

Benjamin, G: Picture A Day Like This, Scene 2: The Lovers

Work length9:33

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Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano), Beate Mordal (soprano), Cameron Shahbazi (countertenor)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
George Benjamin

Benjamin, G: Picture A Day Like This, Scene 3: The Artisan

Work length8:59

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Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano), John Brancy (baritone)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
George Benjamin

Benjamin, G: Picture A Day Like This, Scene 4: The Composer

Work length7:41

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Beate Mordal (soprano), Cameron Shahbazi (countertenor), Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
George Benjamin

Benjamin, G: Picture A Day Like This, Scene 5: Aria

Work length5:29

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Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
George Benjamin

Benjamin, G: Picture A Day Like This, Scene 6: The Collector

Work length7:47

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John Brancy (baritone), Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
George Benjamin

Benjamin, G: Picture A Day Like This, Scene 7

Work length16:10

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Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano), Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
George Benjamin

I. Late evening light

Track length5:27

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II. What is it you want from me?

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III. Picture a day like this

Track length7:44

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Interview, George Benjamin: Picture a Day Like This

22nd September 2023

Just back from the premiere in Aix in the midst of preparing scores for his summer tours, George kindly spoke with us about his latest opera Picture a Day Like This. Read the interview here.

An ordinary day. A terrible event. The death of her infant child sets in motion one woman’s search for a life-restoring miracle. All she needs to do – in the course of a single day – is find one genuinely happy human being. But when every encounter ends in disappointment, she turns finally to the mysterious owner of a magnificent garden… Recorded during the first performances, as part of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, at the Theatre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-Provence, France, from 5th July 2023.

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November 2024

Less is more in Picture a day like this with a cast of five and just 22 instrumentalists from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. With every word of the text set to be heard, Marianne Crebassa is compelling as the Woman through a demanding range of moods and vocal modes

Awards Issue 2024

Both music and text are restrained, but haunting and spare. There’s the sense that every phrase has been chiselled, exquisitely crafted and polished... there’s no mistaking the quality of the performances.

12th September 2024

If the fairytale ambiguity of Picture a day like this is much closer to Benjamin and Crimp’s first collaboration, Into the Little Hill, than it is to the fierce, stark tragedies of Written on Skin and Lessons in Love and Violence, then the beauty of Benjamin’s instrumental lines, every colour and every texture so precisely imagined, and the easy grace of his vocal writing, which always preserves the integrity of the text, have been constants throughout.

3rd September 2024

The music is precise and almost all the words are audible. Everything is vigorously dispatched by five skilful singers and the equally polished Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Nothing is fuzzy; there is no sprawl. The narrative line is clear as well, though in the cryptic manner of folk tales...This pocket opera may not have the visceral force of Benjamin’s opera Written on Skin, but it’s striking, thoughtful, affecting, and above all fit for purpose.

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