Mark-Anthony Turnage: Blood On The Floor (Arthaus DVD)

ARTHAUS SCOFIELD/ENS MODERN/RUNDEL DVD: Mark-Anthony Turnage Blood on the Floor. Improvisation & jazz-style melodies have been part of Turnage's work for many years, but this is the composer's first large-scale attempt to obliterate artificial boundaries between one "type" of music & another. A brutally powerful high octane fusion of jazz & classiccal styles, it concentrates on themes of urban alienation & drug abuse & is described by Turnage as "probably the nastiest thing I have written".