Turnage - Speranza, From the Wreckage | LSO Live LSO0744

Turnage - Speranza, From the Wreckage

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Label: LSO Live

Cat No: LSO0744

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th October 2013

Contents

Artists

Hakan Hardenberger (flugelhorn, trumpet)
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Daniel Harding

Works

Turnage, Mark-Anthony

From the wreckage
Speranza

Artists

Hakan Hardenberger (flugelhorn, trumpet)
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Daniel Harding

About

LSO Live presents the world premiere recording of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s large-scale orchestral work 'Speranza' (Hope), a piece commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra as part of Turnage’s residency with the orchestra in early 2013. Turnage is one of the most admired composers of his generation and has long been associated with the London Symphony Orchestra. Daniel Harding appears in his conducting debut for LSO Live.

'Speranza' is in many ways Turnage’s most ambitious and symphonic composition for orchestra to date. The piece is a monument to the power of optimism in a bleak world: "I started working on the piece while thinking about the absence of hope. I wanted to lift people up", says Turnage. Each of the four movements are titled ‘Hope’ in a different language: Arabic, German, Irish and Hebrew.

'Speranza' is coupled here with 'From the Wreckage', described by The Times as "outstanding: the music begins hellishly but gradually picks up a bluesy swing". Premiered in 2005, the original soloist, Håkan Hardenberger, reprises the role. The three internal sections of 'From the Wreckage' are marked by the soloist’s change of instrument – first flugelhorn, then trumpet, and finally piccolo trumpet.

Concert Reviews:
"Make no mistake – Speranza is a serious statement by a composer with the substance and technique to bring it off." - Classical Source [Speranza]

"It’s one of the best of Turnage’s recent scores. Harding did superb things with its tensions and textures." - The Guardian [From the Wreckage]

"It’s a piece with an exquisitely careful structure, and Harding’s shaping of it was ideal. Hardenberger was exemplary, and particularly impressive in his tonal control in the piercing, high scale which ends the work." - bachtrack.com [From the Wreckage]

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