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Turnage festival in Manchester: Lullabies and Shouts

(November 2006)

Manchester plays host to Lullabies and Shouts, a festival of music by Mark-Anthony Turnage, combining the forces of the BBC Philharmonic, Psappha, 10:10 and students of the Royal Northern College of Music. Lullabies and Shouts takes place between 6 and 9 November at the RNCM, and is directed by Clark Rundell.

Turnage, well established on the world stage as a leading composer of his generation, forges a unique path between modernism and tradition by blending jazz and classical styles. This four day festival of his music features concerts given by the BBC Philharmonic, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's Ensemble 10/10, Manchester-based ensemble Psappha and senior RNCM students. Turnage's music ranges from the punchy, hard-edged and urban to the tranquil and hypnotic. His impeccable vocal writing and flawless sense of melody shine in the four major vocal works featured. Turnage will be there throughout the festival so don't miss the chance to meet and listen to one of the great creative minds of our time.

For full information and to book tickets visit the RNCM website.

6 November, 1.15 pm
Lunchtime Chamber Concert
Lord Rhodes Room, RNCM

Mark-Anthony Turnage A Few Serenades
Peter Fahey New Work (world première)
Mark-Anthony Turnage Sleep On

Pei-Sian Ng cello
Pei-Jee Ng cello
Philip Higham cello
Benjamin Powell piano

Outstanding RNCM cello students, the Ng brothers, perform Turnage's two classic works for cello together with a new work by Peter Fahey, written for Scottish virtuoso cellist Philip Higham.

6 November, 7.30 pm
Bruntwood Theatre, RNCM

Mark-Anthony Turnage Twice Through the Heart
Mark-Anthony Turnage Eulogy
Mark-Anthony Turnage Greek Suite

Psappha
Nicholas Kok conductor
David Aspin viola
Susan Bickley mezzo soprano
Quentin Hayes tenor

Turnage's arresting monologue, Twice Through the Heart, kicks off this theatrical evening performed by Manchester's renowned new music group.

7 November, 1.15 pm
Lunchtime Chamber Concert
Lord Rhodes Room, RNCM

Mark-Anthony Turnage Sarabande
Mark-Anthony Turnage Two Memorials
Laura Bowler New Work (world première)
Mark-Anthony Turnage Two Elegies Framing a Shout
Charles Mingus Goodbye Porkpie

Hat Ben Cottrell, Mark Ward, Sam Andreae soprano saxophones
Susannah Wapshott piano
Evoke Saxophone Quartet
RNCM Saxophone Orchestra

The sound of the saxophone, with its inherent references to jazz, features in much of Turnage's music. This programme of his solo saxophone works also includes Mingus' classic memorial to Lester Young, famous for his donning of the pork pie hat.

7 November, 7.30 pm
Haden Freeman Concert Hall, RNCM

Mark Simpson Septet
Mark-Anthony Turnage The Torn Fields
Stephen Pratt New Work (world première)
Mark-Anthony Turnage Crying Out Loud

Ensemble 10:10
the new music ensemble of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Paul Keohone baritone
Clark Rundell conductor

Ensemble 10:10 opens this concert with 2006 BBC Young Musician of the Year and RNCM student Mark Simpson's Septet. The Torn Fields is a poignant and powerful setting of First World War text by poets including Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. In contrast Crying Out Loud is gritty, loud, extrovert and thoroughly enjoyable. The world première of a work by Liverpool-based composer Stephen Pratt completes this programme.

8 November, 1.15 pm
Lunchtime Chamber Concert
Lord Rhodes Room, RNCM

Matthew Sergeant The Core of the River
Mark-Anthony Turnage Piano Trio

Rhodes Piano Trio
James Cummings saxophone

The RNCM's award-winning Rhodes Piano Trio perform Turnage's recent classic work for the idiom and there's the world première of Matthew Sergeant's long awaited new work for solo saxophone and string quartet, The Core of the River.

8 November, 7.30 pm
Haden Freeman Concert Hall, RNCM

Mark-Anthony Turnage Release
Steven Daverson New Work (world première)
Mark-Anthony Turnage Two Baudelaire Songs
Oliver Knussen Ophelia Dances
Mark-Anthony Turnage Kai

RNCM New Ensemble
Jerry Hou, Matthew Wood conductors
Alison Bell soprano
Kyung-Eun Choi cello

Kai, a stunning dialogue for cello and ensemble, forms the centre-piece of this concert which also features a world première by RNCM composer Steven Daverson. A classic early work by Oliver Knussen, who did so much to encourage the young Turnage at the start of his career, provides a beguiling start.

9 November, 1.15 pm
Haden Freeman Concert Hall, RNCM

Mark-Anthony Turnage Evening Songs

RNCM Concert Orchestra
Matthew Wood conductor

Written for Mark's two young sons, these orchestral lullabies are as beautiful as they are intriguing.

9 November, 7.30 pm
Studio 7, BBC, Oxford Road

Mark-Anthony Turnage Silent Cities
Mark-Anthony Turnage When I Woke
Jonathan Cole Temporale Distante (UK première)
Mark-Anthony Turnage Drowned out

BBC Philharmonic
Clark Rundell conductor
Paul Keohone baritone

Two hard-hitting works from the 90s frame this concert which includes - at Turnage's request - the UK première of Jonathan Cole's haunting orchestral work.

Photo: Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

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