Turnage: On Opened Ground; Texan Tenebrae; Riffs and Refrains, etc – review

Power/Collins/Tezlaff/LPO/Jurowski/Alsop/Stenz(LPO)This is the third disc the London Philharmonic's own label has devoted to Mark-Anthony Turnage, who was the orchestra's composer-in-residence from 2005 to 2010. All but one of these five performances from the Royal Festival Hall was a premiere of one kind or another, though only the violin concerto, Mambo, Blues and Tarantella, written for the fabulous Christian Tetzlaff, was a direct product of Turnage's tenure. The whole disc provides an impre...

Read full article Share article