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This Silence
for eight players
clarinet, horn, bassoon and string quintet
Edition: Performance material
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This Silence was written between July and August 1992 (revised June 1993) and is scored for clarinet, horn, bassoon and string quintet. lt was commissioned by the Cologne Philharmonie for the Scharoun Ensemble. lt lasts around fifteen minutes and is dedicated to my great friends Sandy and Jimmy Brown.
The work is in two contrasting movements. The first (Dance) starts slowly and builds into a manic fast movement featuring the horn. The initial impetus for the music came from a poem entitled ‘Death of a Son‘ by Jon Silkin, which includes the line ‘But this was silence‘ from which I took the title.
The second movement (Dirge) starts with a non-vocal setting of the opening stanza ofthe poem ‘The Exequy‘ by Henry King and proceeds to weave meditative variations around a simple melodic fragment. After a short autburst towards the end (harking back to the manic music of the first movement) the work dies away to a peaceful conclusion.
I am very grateful to the Sharoun Ensemble for playing through This Silence in June 1992, after which I revised the score extensively, and to Brett Dean, who conducted the run-through and gave me great help and encouragement. The Scharoun Ensemble gave the first performance at the Cologne Philharmonie on 12 September 1993.
- Mark-Anthony Turnage
The work is in two contrasting movements. The first (Dance) starts slowly and builds into a manic fast movement featuring the horn. The initial impetus for the music came from a poem entitled ‘Death of a Son‘ by Jon Silkin, which includes the line ‘But this was silence‘ from which I took the title.
The second movement (Dirge) starts with a non-vocal setting of the opening stanza ofthe poem ‘The Exequy‘ by Henry King and proceeds to weave meditative variations around a simple melodic fragment. After a short autburst towards the end (harking back to the manic music of the first movement) the work dies away to a peaceful conclusion.
I am very grateful to the Sharoun Ensemble for playing through This Silence in June 1992, after which I revised the score extensively, and to Brett Dean, who conducted the run-through and gave me great help and encouragement. The Scharoun Ensemble gave the first performance at the Cologne Philharmonie on 12 September 1993.
- Mark-Anthony Turnage
Content
I Dance
II Dirge
II Dirge
More Information
Title:
This Silence
for eight players
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
1992 - 1993
Duration:
15 ′
World Premiere:
September 13, 1993 · Köln (D)
Philharmonie
Scharoun Ensemble
Philharmonie
Scharoun Ensemble
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Philharmonic Hall Cologne for the Scharoun Ensemble
Technical Details
Product number:
LSL 4104-01
Performances
This Silence
Orchestra: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
September 12, 2021 |
Birmingham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , CBSO Centre
This Silence
Orchestra: Regina Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players
September 21, 2019 |
Regina Central,SK (United States of America) , Government House
This Silence
Conductor: Patrick Bailey
February 2, 2017 |
Cambridge (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , West Road Concert Hall
20:00
This Silence
Conductor: Miranda Francis
Orchestra: RCM Junior Department Octet
March 19, 2016 |
London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , RCM Concert Hall
This Silence
February 13, 2016 |
London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Wigmore Hall
19:30
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