Picture a day like this (Limited Edition Full Score)

Martin Crimp

ISBN 10: 057154309X / ISBN 13: 9780571543090

Published by Faber Music, 2023

About this Item

Neuware -Shortlisted for Deluxe Edition of the Year at the Presto Music Awards 2023Picture a day like this is the fourth operatic collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the Little Hill. This limited edition of the full score is one of only one hundred and fifty, presented in a cloth-bound hard cover. It is signed by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp and includes facsimile reproductions of pages from the manuscript, sketches by Benjamin and Crimp, and a photograph of Benjamin, Crimp and directors Daniel Jeanneteau and Marie-Christine Soma in rehearsal at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.In this bittersweet fable of grief and renewal. Benjamin and Crimp tell the story of a Woman who has lost her child: if, before nightfall, she meets one truly happy person and cuts a button from their sleeve, her child will live again. In her search she meets a pair of lovers, a Composer and their Assistant, an Artisan, Collector, and, in a beautiful garden, the mysterious Zabelle.'Benjamin proves with this taut, sharp miniature that he is the finest opera composer of today.a work of depth of feeling, humanistic artistry and expressive rigor.a drama that is miraculously condensed.'Süddeutsche Zeitung (Reinhard J. Brembeck) 9 July 2023 Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Picture a day like this (Limited Edition Full Score)
• Publisher: Faber Music
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 057154309X
• ISBN 13: 9780571543090
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 297W x 210H x 45D millimeters 297 millimeters width by 210 millimeters height by 45 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1158 grams

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Synopsis

Picture a Day Like This is the fourth operatic collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the Little Hill. This limited edition of the full score is one of only 150, presented in a cloth-bound hard cover. It is signed by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp and includes facsimile reproductions of pages from the manuscript, sketches by Benjamin and Crimp, and a photograph of Benjamin, Crimp, and directors Daniel Jeanneteau and Marie-Christine Soma in rehearsal at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

In this bittersweet fable of grief and renewal. Benjamin and Crimp tell the story of a woman who has lost her child: if, before nightfall, she meets one truly happy person and cuts a button from their sleeve, her child will live again. In her search she meets a pair of lovers, a composer and their assistant, an artisan, collector, and, in a beautiful garden, the mysterious Zabelle.

Benjamin proves with this taut, sharp miniature that he is the finest opera composer of today…a work of depth of feeling, humanistic artistry, and expressive rigor…a drama that is miraculously condensed."
-- Süddeutsche Zeitung (Reinhard J. Brembeck) 9 July 2023"