SKU: HL.48024760
ISBN 9781784545239. UPC: 888680962531. 9.25x12.0x0.115 inches.
SKU: HL.48025171
ISBN 9781784545680. UPC: 196288110767. 8.25x11.75x0.245 inches.
This 25 minute work was jointly commissioned by Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonie Essen and the Trans-Siberian Art Festival. It was first performed on 19 October 2017 at the Lutfi Kirdar International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Istanbul, by Daniel Hope and Vadim Repin (violins) with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sascha Goetzel. It is comprised of four movements, fast-slow-fast-slow and moves through dramatic dialogue between the violins and orchestra. The lyrical dance elements develop in intensity as the piece progresses and explores a wide range of textures. Suitable for advanced standard performers.
SKU: HL.48019329
UPC: 884088114169. 7.25x10.25x0.249 inches.
SKU: HL.48024787
UPC: 888680967529.
Contusion is a concise, poignantly balanced one movement cry of pain. Its structure echoes classical sonata form, with its tight, numb and often repeated opening figure flowering into a much more anguished central section before the terse figure returns transformed yet unassuaged in a bleakly whispered ending in which the cello briefly takes wing.
SKU: HL.48025168
ISBN 9780851628639. UPC: 196288110736. 8.25x11.75x0.194 inches.
This work was commissioned by the Canary Islands Festival, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It was composed in 2009 and first performed on 21 January 2010 at Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. This 8 minute atmospheric piece is moody and full of suspense, structured in a single slow movement. Suitable for advanced standard performers.
SKU: HL.48024883
ISBN 9781784545765. UPC: 840126918700. 9.0x12.0x0.085 inches.
Commissioned by IMS Prussia Cove for the 40th anniversary of Open Chamber Music funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. Written for the same combination of instruments as Schubert's famous Trout Quintet and formed of three unnumbered sections, which exploit a wide range of moods and textures.
SKU: HL.48024761
ISBN 9781784545246. UPC: 888680962548. 9.0x12.0x0.142 inches.
Seven Pint-Sized Pieces may be performed complete as a seven-movement work. Each piece may also be performed separately, or a selection together in any combination. Includes: Nostalgia * A Merry Jaunt * Song Without Words * Vlad's Vamp * A Birthday Chorale * Hilary's Hoedown * Cleethorpes Chorale.
SKU: HL.48025169
ISBN 9780851628653. UPC: 196288110743. 8.25x11.75x0.316 inches.
This work was commissioned by Ensemble Modern. It was composed in 2003 and first performed on 26 March 2004 at Alte Oper, Frankfurt,Germany by Ensemble Modern, conducted by Oliver Knussen. The UK edition of The Guardian wrote Crying Out Loud is a 15-minute musical tantrum based on hiccupping rhythmic figures that seemingly pay homage to Louis Andriessen, before developing into a more familiar argument in which Bartok and Miles Davis tussle forsupremacy. This work may also be performed with a larger string section. Suitable for advanced standard performers.
SKU: HL.48024084
ISBN 9781784541781. UPC: 888680708528. 8.25x11.75 inches. Hawkes Pocket Scores 1594.
Speranza is Turnage's most important orchestral score to date, as close to a symphony as any in his output. The four movements are titled by the Arabic, German, Gaelic and Hebrew words for 'hope', yet this optimism appears to be hard-won as if through a century of conflict. The work grew from reflections on the post-Holocaust poetry of Paul Celan, and the music is coloured by lamenting melodies – Palestinian, Jewish and Israeli – supplemented by the use of the Armenian dudak and Eastern European cimbalom. Other than the scherzo-like Irish-themed third movement the mood is brooding with a sequence of processions and variations illuminated by shafts of orchestral light. Full orchestra materials available on hire. Suitable for advanced standard performers.“Mark-Anthony Turnage's monumental Speranza is an act of prayer which goes straight to the heart...The very act of creation, for these resplendent forces, is an expression of hope, even if the tale it tells is tragic...The final Jewish melody blossoms into a majestic surge, pulling motifs from the work together.” –BBC Music Magazine
SKU: HL.48024901
ISBN 9781784545697. UPC: 840126930719. 7.25x10.25 inches.
Turnage's fourth string quartet, Winter's Edge, was premiered by the Piatti Quartet at the Klarafestival, Brussels. Co-commissioned by the Quartet, the Wigmore Hall and Flagey ASBL, they gave the UK premiere at the Wigmore Hall, London. This 20-minute work is made p of four numbered movements and which proceed without a break. Suitable for advanced standard performers.
SKU: HL.48024790
ISBN 9781784545413. UPC: 888680967772. 9.0x12.0x0.249 inches.
Starting with a movement in the composer's most eruptive and jagged style it continues with music of bouncing ebullience whose wayward lyricism incorporates Turnage's characteristically vital bluesy inflections. The second movement places sombre, troubled gestures within an atmosphere of stillness and restraint. A scherzo follows, restless and slithery. But its in the slow, uneasy finale that the note of inner reflection reaches its most personal and eloquently expressive apogee.
SKU: HL.48019328
UPC: 884088114176. 8.25x11.75x0.253 inches.
SKU: HL.48025170
ISBN 9781784545253. UPC: 196288110750. 8.25x11.75x0.247 inches.
This work was commissioned by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in honour of Silvia Toth and dedicated to Hans Werner Henze. It was composed in 2012-13 and first performed on 10 October 2013 at De Doelen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, by Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin. This 20 minute work is formed of three movements and explores a wide range of moods and textures. Suitable for advanced standard performers.
SKU: HL.48023747
ISBN 9781784541675. UPC: 888680611606. 9.0x12.0x0.11 inches.
Four advanced-level selections: Leap * Cradle Song * Carnac * Falling Apart.
SKU: HL.48023289
ISBN 9781784540371. UPC: 888680037048. 8.25x11.75x0.309 inches. Hawkes Pocket Score 1526.
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3, the Royal Philharmonic Society and the New York Philharmonic in celebration of the RPS's Bicentenary.
SKU: HL.48024902
ISBN 9781784545703. UPC: 840126930726.
Turnage's fourth string quartet, Winter's Edge was premiered by the Piatti Quartet at the Klarafestival, Brussels. Co-commissioned by the Quartet, the Wigmore Hall and Flagey ASBL, they gave the UK premiere at the Wigmore Hall, London. This 20-minute work is made up of four numbered movements and which proceed without a break. Suitable for advanced standard performers.
SKU: HL.48024563
ISBN 9780851628660. UPC: 840126902501. 9x12 inches.
Commissioned by Craig Ogden and the Cheltenham Music Festival, with funds generously provided by Paul Miron, Peter & Veronica Lofthouse and the Cheltenham Festival Society. Air with Variations was first performed by Craig Ogden in the Pittville Pump Rooms, Cheltenham, Saturday 12 July 2008 and following revisions, has been edited for publication with the composer by Michael McCartney.