Mark-Anthony Turnage | ||
| Allmusic Biography : Best described as eclectic, Turnages highly energetic style is infused with influences from jazz, rock, and European modernism. His output includes symphonic, chamber, and operatic works, all of which demonstrate a keen sense of drama, and an ability to clarify the most complex of textures. He is best known for his opera, Greek, which has received frequent productions, including one televised by the BBC. Born in Essex in 1960, Turnage studied at the Royal College of Music -- most notably with Oliver Knussen -- and then at Tanglewood with Gunther Schuller and Hans Werner Henze. Henzes influence led to an opera commission for the 1988 Munich Biennale. The result of that commission, Greek -- based on Steven Berkoffs incendiary play of the same title -- was an unqualified success, and it established Turnage on the international scene. In October 1989, Turnage began a lasting relationship with the City of Birmingham Symphony and its conductor, Simon Rattle, with the premiere of his Three Screaming Popes. After a four-year term as Composer in Association with Birmingham, Turnage took on a similar role at the English National Opera, where he also became Artistic Consultant to their Contemporary Opera Studio. 1996 saw the London premiere of his jazz-inspired Blood on the Floor by Ensemble Modern, and in 1997 his works, Twice Through the Heart and The Country of the Blind, opened the 50th Anniversary Aldeburgh Festival. | ||
 | Album: 1 of 8 Title: Your Rockaby Released: 1996-08-12 Tracks: 6 Duration: 55:34 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Your Rockaby (21:49) 2 Night Dances: Prelude (01:21) 3 Night Dances: Dance 1 (04:40) 4 Night Dances: Nocturne (03:34) 5 Night Dances: Dance 2 (03:33) 6 Dispelling the Fears (20:37) |
 | Album: 2 of 8 Title: Blood on the Floor Released: 1999 Tracks: 9 Duration: 1:08:44 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Blood on the Floor: Blood on the Floor (08:40) 2 Blood on the Floor: Junior Addict (05:50) 3 Blood on the Floor: Shout (05:35) 4 Blood on the Floor: Sweet and Decay (09:02) 5 Blood on the Floor: Needles (04:53) 6 Blood on the Floor: Elegy for Andy (08:24) 7 Blood on the Floor: Cut Up (06:19) 8 Blood on the Floor: Crackdown (04:11) 9 Blood on the Floor: Dispelling the Fears (15:47) |
| Blood on the Floor : Allmusic album Review : Long a passionate jazz fan, British classical composer Mark Anthony Turnage tried his hand at an eight-and-a-half minute third stream piece for the Ensemble Modern, and it ultimately turned into this often grim, complex, sprawling 69-minute suite for chamber band and jazz soloists. The images on the CD jewel box are terrifying -- a portrait of the haggard-looking composer and a syringe bathing in blood -- and indeed, parts of the work are elegies for Turnages brother, who was a heroin addict. Sensational though the inspiration may be, the real story is Turnages ability to achieve a serious, vital contemporary classical/jazz alliance. Whether relying upon a pulse or not, the writing has a jazz sensibility and Turnage always enforces his harmonically tough language, with no attempt to pander to delicate ears. There isnt much freedom for the stellar jazz soloists -- guitarist John Scofield, saxophonist Martin Robertson, and drummer Peter Erskine -- to take off on their own, but the musicians do get a chance to flaunt their distinctive styles now and then. Scofield really burns in "Needles" and he and Erskine get down to some funky New Orleans second line jamming in "Crackdown." Otherwise, Turnages writing adapts with amazing closeness to Scofields unique sound and deliberately skewed sense of time, as well as the driving Erskine manner, and he evokes his idol Miles Davis in the lengthy finale, "Dispelling the Fears." As expertly and transparently performed by Peter Rundel and the Ensemble Modern, this is definitely not easy listening entertainment, but it is a tough nut worth cracking. | ||
 | Album: 3 of 8 Title: Music to Hear Released: 2001 Tracks: 14 Duration: 58:20 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Two Memorials: I. Memorial (02:22) 2 Two Memorials: II. Trier (02:07) 3 An Invention on "Solitude" (09:12) 4 Sleep On: I. Berceuse (04:03) 5 Sleep On: II. Refrain (04:53) 6 Sleep On: III. Lullaby (03:27) 7 Cortège for Chris (04:52) 8 Two Elegies Framing a Shout: I. Elegy no. 1 (03:11) 9 Two Elegies Framing a Shout: II. Shout (03:36) 10 Two Elegies Framing a Shout: III. Elegy no. 2 (05:47) 11 Three Farewells: I. Chorale (05:38) 12 Three Farewells: II. Music to Hear (03:11) 13 Three Farewells: III. All Will Be Well (04:01) 14 Tune for Toru (from True Life Stories) (02:00) |
 | Album: 4 of 8 Title: Scorched Released: 2003-10-06 Tracks: 14 Duration: 1:03:52 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify AlbumCover | 1 Scorched: Make Me 1 (02:56) 2 Scorched: Make Me 2 (03:02) 3 Scorched: Kubrick (04:28) 4 Scorched: Away with Words (06:35) 5 Scorched: Fat Lip 1 (03:08) 6 Scorched: Fat Lip 2 (04:37) 7 Scorched: Deadzy (05:22) 8 Scorched: Trim (03:31) 9 Scorched: Nocturnal Mission (03:50) 10 Scorched: Lets say we did (06:27) 11 Scorched: The Nag (05:32) 12 Scorched: Cadenza (03:12) 13 Scorched: GIL B643 (07:24) 14 Scorched: Protocol (03:48) |
 | Album: 5 of 8 Title: Scherzoid / Evening Songs / When I Woke / Yet Another Set To Released: 2005 Tracks: 10 Duration: 1:05:54 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify AlbumCover | 1 Scherzoid (12:53) 2 Evening Songs: I. Almost Dreaming (07:16) 3 Evening Songs: II. In the Half Light (03:29) 4 Evening Songs: III. Still Sleeping (06:43) 5 When I Woke: I. The Turn of Time (02:10) 6 When I Woke: II. When I Woke (04:57) 7 When I Woke: III. Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed (07:14) 8 Yet Another Set To: I. Cut Up (06:50) 9 Yet Another Set To: II. A Soothing Interlude (04:41) 10 Yet Another Set To: III. Another Set To (09:41) |
 | Album: 6 of 8 Title: BBC Music, Volume 20, Number 12: Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 New World / Turnage: Canon Fever Released: 2012-09 Tracks: 6 Duration: 55:04 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Canon Fever (02:55) 2 "Carnival" overture, op. 92 (09:16) 3 Symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95 "From the New World": I. Adagio - Allegro molto (11:31) 4 Symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95 "From the New World": II. Largo (12:06) 5 Symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95 "From the New World": III. Scherzo: Molto vivace (07:35) 6 Symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95 "From the New World": IV. Allegro con fuoco (11:39) |
 | Album: 7 of 8 Title: Remembering: In Memoriam Evan Scofield Released: 2017-07-20 Tracks: 4 Duration: 29:23 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Remembering: In Memoriam Evan Scofield: Movement I (07:05) 2 Remembering: In Memoriam Evan Scofield: Movement II (06:24) 3 Remembering: In Memoriam Evan Scofield: Movement III (07:24) 4 Remembering: In Memoriam Evan Scofield: Movement IV (08:30) |
 | Album: 8 of 8 Title: Beethoven: Symphony no. 8 / Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini / Turnage: Piano Concerto Released: 2018-06-08 Tracks: 8 Duration: 1:11:44 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Symphony no. 8 in F major, op. 93: I. Allegro vivace e con brio (09:02) 2 Symphony no. 8 in F major, op. 93: II. Allegretto scherzando (03:51) 3 Symphony no. 8 in F major, op. 93: III. Tempo di menuetto (05:05) 4 Symphony no. 8 in F major, op. 93: IV. Allegro vivace (07:35) 5 Francesca da Rimini, op. 32, TH 46 (24:09) 6 Piano Concerto: I. Rondo-Variations (05:01) 7 Piano Concerto: II. Last Lullaby for Hans (09:02) 8 Piano Concerto: III. A Grotesque Burlesque (07:59) |