Turnage, Mark-Anthony: From the Wreckage (2004) 15'
for trumpet and orchestra

Scoring
4(IV=afl).2.corA.2.ssax.bcl.2.dbn-4.3.3.1-perc(4):4SD/lg sizzle cym/lg whip/2lg BD/med maracas/lg maracas/sm brake dr/timp/lg susp.cym/12 bells(or bell-like perc)-harp-cel-strings NB: the percussion surround the orchestra in a circle.

World Premiere
9/4/2005
Finlandia Hall, Helsinki
Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet / Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen


Press Quotes      Deutsch
“The concerto depicts a psychological journey from sorrow to calm via barely repressed anger and rage, its emotional trajectory delineated by the fact that Hardenberger opens the work playing a dark-sounding flugelhorn, which he changes first for a standard trumpet during the agitated central section, then for an ethereal-sounding piccolo trumpet in the closing pages.”
The Guardian

“The highlight was From the Wreckage… this was outstanding: a kind of rebirth piece in which the music begins hellishly but gradually picks up a bluesy swing as the soloist rhapsodically spirals higher and higher. I was mesmerised.”
The Times

Recommended Recording
Håkan Hardenberger / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra / Peter Eötvös
DG CD 477 615-0



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