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GETTING SCORCHED: MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE

British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage is one of the most distinctive and powerful voices in European music, a vivid and resolutely individual presence. He has already produced a large body of chamber and orchestral music and won critical acclaim in the opera house. His collaborations with celebrated jazz musicians have forged a new kind of contemporary music, in which classical and jazz collide, fuse and produce new sound worlds.

The focus of this programme is the genesis of Scorched, a collaboration between Turnage and American jazz guitarist-composer John Scofield, another acclaimed pioneer of the exhilarating world of musical fusion.

Scored for jazz trio, big band and symphony orchestra, Scofield’s compositions served as the musical foundation for Turnage’s fertile orchestral imagination. The extended suite of tunes runs the gamut from ecstatic free jazz to virtuoso string writing to full orchestral tableau effects.

The cameras observed rehearsals for Scorched, the first experimental run-through and also shot footage at the première at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt in September 2002. Other aspects of Turnage’s work are woven into the programme through an in-depth interview and musical quotations, as well as extracts from recordings of his operas, including the award-winning Silver Tassie.

Composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage and John Scofield

Soloists
JOHN SCOFIELD (guitar)
JOHN PATITUCCI (bass)
PETER ERSKINE (drums)
Peter Erskine appears courtesy of Fuzzy Music

HESSISCHER RUNDFUNK BIG BAND
FRANKFURT RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by
HUGH WOLFF

MORAY WELSH (cello)
JOHN CONSTABLE (piano)

LONDON SINFONIETTA
Conducted by
GEORGE BENJAMIN

ALMEIDA OPERA ENSEMBLE
Conducted by
RICHARD BERNAS

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by
SIR SIMON RATTLE

ENSEMBLE MODERN
Conducted by
PETER RUNDEL
with MARTIN ROBERTSON (saxophone

Cast: Mark-Anthony Turange, John Scofield, John Patitucci, Peter Erskine, Hugh Wolff, Sir Simon Rattle
Producer(s): Swantje Ehrentreich, Peter Maniura
Director(s): Barrie Gavin
Format: Colour
Region: 0 (all) PA
Discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Running Time: 60 minutes
Studio: RM Associates