The Torn Fields
composer: Mark-Anthony Turnage
text writer: Rudyard Kipling - Isaac Rosenberg - Wilfred Owen - Charles Sorley - Siegfried Sassoon
piano reduction: Chris Hinkins
for baritone and large ensemble
Piano Reduction
texts by Rudyard Kipling, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, Charles Sorley and Siegfried Sassoon
Commissioned work: Commissioned by Birmingham Contgemporary Music Group with financial assistance from West Midlands Arts and Sound Investors through BCMG's Sound Investment scheme
Premiere: 17 September 2002 Berlin, Berliner Festspiele · Gerald Finley, baritone · Birmingham Contemporary Music Group · Alexander Briger, conductor
Orchestra instrumentation: 2(1.pic, 2.pic.afl)1.2(1.Ebcl.Acl, 2.bcl).ssax.1(cbsn)-2.1.0.0-2perc(glsp, crot, vib, mar, gong, s.d, b.d, 2wdbl)-hp.pno(cel)-str(2.2.2.2.2)
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 26' 0''
Year of composition: 2000/2002
Difficulty: very difficult
Edition: vocal/piano score - Register: baritone
Language: English
44 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-2201-2197-5
Order number: ED 12741
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Emotions from intense anger to morbid despair are conveyed through this powerful vocal work depicting the viewpoints of poets from the Great War. Mark-Anthony Turnage's 'The Torn Fields' sets the words of Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg and Charles Sorley; the latter two of whom were killed in the trenches. Despite the dark nature of the work, it concludes with a symbol of humanity and hope, the music from the prologue returns with the poem Everyone Sang to creating a unified transcendence away from the fears and desolation of the torn fields.
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