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The torn fields
No full textFor baritone and large ensemble, with texts by Rudyard Kipling, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, Charles Sorley and Siegfried Sassoon. Duration 25 minutes. This work was commissioned by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group with financial assistance from West Midlands Arts and Sound Investors through BCMG's Sound Investment scheme.
A memorial to World War I from the viewpoints of poets of the period, it was premiered in Berlin on 17 September 2002 by Gerald Finley (baritone) and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Alexander Briger
Slide stride
No full textFor piano and string quartet, duration 12 minutes.
This piece was premiered on 18 January 2003 by Ian Brown (piano) and the Nash Ensemble at St Giles, Cripplegate, London. Ian Brown and the Nash Ensemble have recorded this work for Onyx Classics (ONYX4005) see https://onyxclassics.com/release/turnage-this-silence/, and it has also been recorded for Cybele Records (CF001RSK) by Ulrike Nahmmacher (violin), Martin Roth (violin), Werner Dickel (viola), Susanne Müller-Hornbach (cello) and Florence Millet (piano), see https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8260836--britannia#about.
Both the Nash Ensemble recording and a live recording by the Psappha Ensemble are available on YouTube, see the video tab below
A quiet life
No full textFor string orchestra, duration 10 minutes. This work was commissioned by the BBC and written for the BBC Symphony Orchestra. It forms the third part of Etudes and Elegies (see http://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1927/), and was premiered with the other two parts, A Quick Blast (2000) (http://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1937/) and Uninterrupted Sorrow (2001) (http://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1938/) on 18 January 2003 conducted by Leonard Slatkin at the Barbican Hall, London. For a recording of the set of three pieces by Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie conducted by Kazushi Ono, see https://www.discogs.com/Turnage-Rihm-George-Benjamin-Etudes-Elegies-Canzona-Per-Sonare-Cuts-And-Dissolves-Olicantus/release/15569289
Four-horned fandango (1996, rev. 2000)
No full textFor four solo horns and orchestra, duration 15 minutes. This work was commissioned by EMI Records to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 1997.
It was premiered on 5 July 1997 by Claire Briggs, Peter Currie, Mark Philips and Peter Dyson (solo horns) and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle at Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
A recording is available (Chandos CHAN10018) by Timothy Brown, Michael Murray, Andrew Antcliff and Christopher Larkin (solo horns) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin (see https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2010018)
Epithalamion
No full textFor flute and piano, duration 8 minutes. This work was premièred on 7 July 2019 by Joshua Batty (flute) during the Australian Flute Festival at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music
The invisible face (2004, rev. 2006)
No full textFor solo cello and orchestra, duration 15 minutes.
This piece was first published by BMIC New Voices and remains part of their collection
Melody remembered
No full textFor two clarinets, percussion and violin, duration 4 minutes. This piece was first performed in 2005 by the Tacet Ensemble at the Brighton Festival.
It was first published by BMIC New Voices and remains a part of their collection
Milonga nueva
No full textFor ensemble (piccolo, flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass), duration 5 minutes. This piece was first performed on 9 April 2005 by Lontano at the Purcell Room, London.
It was first published by BMIC New Voices and remains part of their collection
Tristan-still
No full textFor orchestra, duration 20 minutes. This work was commissioned by Radio Three and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and premiered at the Barbican Hall in February 2003 conducted by Donald Runnicles. In 2003 it was also shortlisted in the orchestral category of the inaugural British Composers Awards.
For a review of the premiere see https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/feb/21/classicalmusicandopera.artsfeatures12
Madame Rubinstein
No full textMusic for theatre play 'Madame Rubinstein' (Park Theatre, London), directed by Jez Bond and starring Frances Barber, Jonathan Forbes, and Miriam Margolyes