On Opened Ground
composer: Mark-Anthony Turnage
piano reduction: Paul Broom
concerto for viola and orchestra
Commissioned work: Commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra
Premiere: 14 November 2002 Cleveland (USA), Severence Hall · Yuri Bashmet, viola · Cleveland Orchestra · Jahja Ling, conductor
Orchestra instrumentation: 3(3.pic, afl).2.ca.2(Acl).bcl.ssax.2.cbsn-4.3.3.1-4perc(glsp, vib, mar, 9hand bells, 4gongs, 3Japanese temple bells, sleigh bells, bell plate, tam-t, tamb, bng, s.d, tom-t, break drum, log drum, b.d, marc, ratchet, clav)-hp.pno(cel)-str(14.12.10.8.8)
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 25' 0''
Year of composition: 2000/2001
Difficulty: difficult
Edition: piano reduction with solo part
68 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-2201-3193-6
Order number: ED 13249
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Description
Mark Anthony Turnage, who celebrates his 50th birthday this summer, composed On Opened Ground for one of the world’s most celebrated viola soloists, Yuri Bashmet, and the Cleveland Orchestra. The title pays homage to Seamus Heaney whose collected poems were published under the tile Opened Ground in 1998. Throughout the work the opening motif, heard in the viola - a rapid gesture marked ‘rough and aggressive’ - undergoes various transformations in shape and character, becoming ‘warm and intense’ and finally ‘muted and distant’ at the end of the work.
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