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A few serenades
No full textFor cello and piano, duration 15 minutes. This piece was premiered on 13 June 2005 by Gabriella Swallow (cello) and Mark-Anthony Turnage (piano) at the Konsertsalen NorrlandsOpera, Umeå, Sweden
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No full textFor oboe (doubling cor anglais), Eb clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), bassoon (doubling contrabassoon), horn, and piano, duration 13 minutes. This work was commissioned by the Nash Ensemble with funds provided by Dr. Shirley Ellis and the Nash Concert Society Trust. It was premièred by the Nash Ensemble on 27 April 2021 at the Wigmore Hall
The siege of Chester
No full textFor keyboard instrument, duration c. 5 minutes.
This work is a short fantasia for keyboard, using quarter-comma mean-tone tuning, in homage to the composer William Lawes, court musician to King Charles the First. He was killed during the English Civil War as he rode with his King at the siege of Chester 24 September 1645.
A recording is available on SoundCloud (see the audio tab below)
Seven short songs
No full textFor marimba and voice. Premiered at the York Spring Festival of New Music
Towards alba
No full textFor horn and orchestra, duration 17 minutes. This piece was premiered on 16 January 2020 by Richard Watkins (horn) and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. For more information about this piece see https://www.boosey.com/cr/news/Turnage-s-new-horn-concerto-launches-60th-birthday-year/101505&LangID=1. For a conversation between Richard Watkins and Mark-Anthony Turnage about this piece see the video tab below
Dialogue
No full textFor violin and cello soloists, strings, percussion, harp and piano, duration 24 minutes.
This work was premiered on 15 August 2015 at the Festival-Zelt, Gstaad, by Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin) and Sol Gabetta (cello) with the Gstaad Festival Orchestra conducted by Kristjan Järvi. A video recording of this performance (from YouTube) is available on the video tab below
Run riot
No full textFor saxophone quartet, duration 15 minutes. This work was premiered on 25 July 2013 at the Holt Festival by the Delta Saxophone Quartet. A short excerpt is available via SoundCloud on the audio tab below
Frieze
No full textFor orchestra, duration 21 minutes. The title refers to 'Beethoven Frieze' by Gustav Klimt, an artwork inspired by the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. This piece was premiered at the Royal Albert Hall on 11 August 2013 by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conducted by Vasily Petrenko.
A recording is available by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Alan Gilbert, see https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8315653--mark-anthony-turnage-beethoven. Extracts from this recording (movements 1 and 3) are also available on YouTube (see the video tab below)