Benjamin/ Degout - Lessons in Love & ViolenceLessons in Love and Violence is an opera with music by George Benjamin and text by Martin Crimp. The opera, which is based on the story of King Edward II and Piers Gaveston and covers the events set out in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II, which combines the story of Edward and Gaveston with the deposition of Edward II by Mortimer and the overthrow of Mortimer and Edward's queen Isabella of France by Edward III. The opera is in two parts, of four

influencing the likes Soft Cell

"As we relate to music in an on-going condition of becoming

His work catalogue registers almost two hundred opus numbers representing practically all the important musical genres

the composer on hand would be called upon to provide his patron with an undemanding work designed to highlight the vocal prowess of one or more soloists

The salient themes of our times - loneliness

and of course influences by Ravel and Debussy cannot be ignored

Whilst his oeuvre may have been small (just 75 works that we know of and most just a couple of minutes long)

but luxuriantly open new recording by tenor saxophonist Christoph Irniger's Pilgrim - is palpably more relaxed on the surface than the quintet's previous albums

After a concert and a sandstorm

and Ronald Leigh-Hunt

and Cuddle Magic

Presented here is Guarneri's rare 1978 release