Music to Hear

"The performances, by members of the Nash Ensemble, are polished and full of feeling and character; they're well recorded too."
BBC Music Magazine (Oct 2001)

"Turnage's chamber music has a restrained confessional tone far from Turnage's "public" statements. His chamber music communicates directly through simplicity, subtlety and sincerity. Highly accessible and communicative music"
(MusicWeb Dec 2001)

An evocative collection of chamber music from one of the leading composers of his generation. More known for his orchestral music, the pieces on this new CD illuminate another side of Mark-Anthony Turnage; more tender and certainly very intimate.

'From the plangent solo sax of Two Memorials to the intensely evocative solo piano version of Tune for Toru, there is little to frighten the horses and much to touch the heart....' David Gutman for the Gramophone

Martin Robertson's soprano saxophone moves mellifluously through the whole album; sometimes solo, then joined by other forces from the Nash Ensemble, a group with a special affinity with Turnage's music and a group for whom the composer has written many works.

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