Turnage at Fifty | Classical review

The Capstone, LiverpoolIt is extraordinary to think that the enfant terrible of English music, Mark-Anthony Turnage, has reached his half-century. To celebrate, Ensemble 10/10 presented a programme that demonstrated Turnage's influence on a generation of composers who were barely out of nappies when he first caused a stir with his Berkoff-inspired yob opera, Greek.Michael Small and Mark Simpson are both in their early twenties, but seem to have inherited Turnage's propensity for pushing things t...

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