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Blood on the Floor

for four jazz soloists and large ensemble
Edition: Performance material
Product Type
Hire/performance material

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Description

The combination of jazz and the possibilities of contemporary orchestral sound plays a major role in the music of Mark-Anthony Turnage. Blood on the Floor is his first work to include a significant element of improvisation, including his performers in the compositional process from the very beginning. Francis Bacon’s painting gives the work its title and the sour, desolate atmosphere of the prologue: the succeeding eight movements wind up the tension until the spiralling freefall of the last movement, Dispelling the Fears.

Orchestral Cast

solo quartet: ssax(asax.bcl)-drum kit (h.h, sus cym, cow bell, metal bar, tamb, s.d, tom-ts, b.d)-egtr.bgtr
ensemble:2(afl.scaffolding).2(ca).2(bcl 1.scaffolding).2ssax(asax).2(cbsn)-2.2.2.euph.1-2perc(glsp, crot, vib, mar, tub bells, bell plates, Japanese temple bells, spash cym, cow bells, sleigh bell, 4gong, tam-t, 2tamb, bng, tabla, djembe, bodhran, log drum, b.d, marac, clav, lion's roar, large piece of wood, large saucepan)-egtr.hp.pno(cel.epno)-str(6.6.4.4.2 maximum)

Content

I Blood on the Floor (Prologue)
II Junior Addict
III Shout
IV Sweet and Decay
V Needles
VI Elegy for Andy
VII Cut Up
VIII Crackdown
IX Dispelling the Fears

More Information

Title:
Blood on the Floor
for four jazz soloists and large ensemble
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1993 - 1996
Duration:
70 ′0 ′′
World Premiere:
May 1, 1994 · Frankfurt/Main (D)
Alte Oper
Conductor: Ingo Metzmacher · Ensemble Modern


May 30, 1996 · London (UK)
Queen Elizabeth Hall
John Scofield, electric guitar; Peter Erskine, drum kit; Martin Robertson, saxophones · Conductor: Peter Rundel · Ensemble Modern

Commissioned work :
Co-commissioned by the Ensemble Modern, The South Bank Centre for the Royal Festival Hall, Kölner Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Wien and supported bu the Siemens Kulturprogramm and The British Council
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Technical Details

Media Type:
Hire/performance material
Product number:
LSL 4078-01
Manufacturer:
Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG
55116 Mainz
Germany

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  • Blood on the Floor
    Conductor: Stefan Asbury
    March 25, 1999 | Maastrich (Netherlands) , Theater Vrijthof
  • Blood on the Floor
    Conductor: Stefan Asbury
    March 23, 1999 | Amsterdam (Netherlands) , Paradiso — National Premiere
  • Blood on the Floor
    EJM1 "Man Walking at Ordinary Speed"
    March 20, 1999 | Charlois (France)
  • Blood on the Floor
    EJM1 "Man Walking at Ordinary Speed"
    March 19, 1999 | Charlois (France)
  • Blood on the Floor
    EJM1 "Man Walking at Ordinary Speed"
    September 26, 1998 | Bruxelles (Belgium) , Halles de Schaerbeek
  • Blood on the Floor
    EJM1 "Man Walking at Ordinary Speed"
    September 25, 1998 | Bruxelles (Belgium) , Halles de Schaerbeek
  • Blood on the Floor
    EJM1 "Man Walking at Ordinary Speed"
    September 24, 1998 | Bruxelles (Belgium) , Halles de Schaerbeek
  • Blood on the Floor
    EJM1 "Man Walking at Ordinary Speed"
    September 23, 1998 | Bruxelles (Belgium) , Halles de Schaerbeek
  • Blood on the Floor
    EJM1 "Man Walking at Ordinary Speed"
    September 19, 1998 | Lyon (France) , Opera House
  • Blood on the Floor
    EJM1 "Man Walking at Ordinary Speed"
    September 18, 1998 | Lyon (France) , Opera House
  • Blood on the Floor
    EJM1 "Man Walking at Ordinary Speed"
    September 17, 1998 | Lyon (France) , Opera House
  • Blood on the Floor
    EJM1 "Man Walking at Ordinary Speed"
    September 16, 1998 | Lyon (France) , Opera House
  • Blood on the Floor
    Summer Sounds 1998
    Conductor: Sakari Oramo
    Orchestra: Avanti!
    June 26, 1998 | Porvoo (Finland) , Art Factory — National Premiere
  • Blood on the Floor
    Conductor: Peter Rundel
    Orchestra: Ensemble Modern
    April 8, 1998 | Birmingham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Symphony Hall
    20.00 h
  • Blood on the Floor
    Conductor: Peter Rundel
    Orchestra: Ensemble Modern
    April 7, 1998 | Manchester (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Bridgewater Hall
    20.00 h
  • Blood on the Floor
    Conductor: Peter Rundel
    Orchestra: Ensemble Modern
    April 6, 1998 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Queen Elizabeth Hall
    19.45 h
  • Blood on the Floor
    Conductor: Peter Rundel
    Orchestra: Ensemble Modern
    April 5, 1998 | Cambridge (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Corn Exchange
    19.30 h
  • Blood on the Floor
    Conductor: Ingo Metzmacher
    Orchestra: Hamburgische Staatsoper Orchestra
    January 30, 1998 | Hamburg (Germany) , Staatsoper
  • Blood on the Floor
    Conductor: Peter Rundel
    Orchestra: Ensemble Modern
    June 8, 1996 | Wien (Austria) , Konzerthaus — National Premiere
  • Blood on the Floor
    Conductor: Peter Rundel
    Orchestra: Ensemble Modern
    June 6, 1996 | Köln (Germany) , Kölner Philharmonie
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