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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2013
In a baffling case of unhelpful scheduling, major new works by Mark-Anthony Turnage were showcased by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra in concerts held at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool and London's Barbican, respectively, on the same evening – 7 February 2013. Apart from necessitating an explanation for the composer's absence from the RLPO concert in their season's programme book, this double booking resulted in audiences being unable to experience live performances of two of Turnage's most substantial recent orchestral pieces. Surely one of these significant premières could have been rescheduled to another date – or, if not, a different time of day, creating a sporting chance to experience both events? Fortunately, the LSO concert was broadcast, enabling those of us who chose to attend the Liverpool concert to catch the London première retrospectively.
1 This, the Italian word for ‘hope’, is also the subtitle of the impassioned and substantial Ninth Symphony by Andrzej Panufnik which might have made an illuminating companion piece for Turnage's new work.
2 Turnage's tenure as composer-in-association with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the early 1990s coincided with Harding's years as assistant to the orchestra's then conductor, Simon Rattle.