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Christmas tree carol
No full textFor SATB choir and orchestra, duration 3 minutes.
A version is also available for SATB choir and piano/organ, see https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/845/Christmas-Tree-Carol--Kenneth-Hesketh/
Trapdoor
No full textFor piano solo, duration 9 minutes.
This piece was commissioned and premiered by Rolf Hind at Cheltenham Town Hall on 1 Novemer 1999
Fadwa
No full textOpera, duration approx. 57 minutes. Libretto by the composer.
This work was premiered by Accademia Filarmonica Romana in May 2013 at the Teatro Olimpico in Rome
And singing say and saying sing – the private devotions for the hours of prayer of John Cosin
No full textFive motets for choir, setting words by John Cosin. This work received its first performances in Salisbury and London in 2012 by the Choirs of Salisbury Cathedral led by their Director of Music, David Halls
Twenty seven variations
No full textFor solo piano. This piece was premiered on 22 February 1994 by Stephen Gutman
Beating perceptions
No full textFor two percussionists, duration 5 minutes.
This piece was first performed on 14 December 2000 by Brannick and Benjafield at the BMIC Cutting Edge Workshop, The Warehouse, London. It was first published by BMIC New Voices and remains part of their collection
Greek
No full textOpera in two acts, duration 90 minutes. Based on Steven Berkoff's stage play of the same title, which transfers Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus Rex to the East End of London in the 1980s. The libretto is adapted by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Jonathan Moore. The work was commissioned for the Munich Biennale where it was premiered on 17 June 1988 with Fiona Kimm (mezzo-soprano); Helen Charnock (soprano); Quentin Hayes (baritone); and Richard Suart (baritone) conducted by Sian Edwards. The UK premiere was given at the Edinburgh Festival the following month.
A television version of Greek was filmed at the Liverpool Warehouse in 1990 with the original world premiere cast and the Almeida Ensemble. This is now available on DVD (Arthaus Musik, 102105) see https://arthaus-musik.com/de/dvd/a-z/media/details/Greek.html. An audio recording of the original cast conducted by Richard Bernas was made in 1992 and was released on Argo (4403682) in 1994 (see https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8042215--turnage-greek) and re-released by Decca (4734262) in 2002, see https://www.deccaclassics.com/en/catalogue/products/turnage-greek-145. This recording is now available on YouTube, for the Act I Prologue see the video tab below.
Greek was performed in Berlin in September 2021 conducted by Yi-Chen Lin, and in Hannover in November 2021 conducted by Stephan Zilias
Greek suite
No full textFor mezzo-soprano, tenor and ensemble, text by Jonathan Moore and Mark-Anthony Turnage after Steven Berkoff. Greek Suite summarises the main events of Turnage's first opera, Greek (see https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/2003/) in a four movement work. It was commissioned by the Alte Oper, Frankfurt, for Ensemble Modern, the group of German musicians who played for the first performance of Greek in Munich. Greek Suite was premiered on 30 March 1989 conducted by Kaspar de Roo, with Mike Henry as Eddy and Fiona Kimm as Wife