Mark-Anthony Turnage (b. 1960)
The Torn Fields
for baritone and large ensemble Edition Schott
Bariton und großes Ensemble
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- For
- Bariton und großes Ensemble
- Product Type
- Piano reduction
- Author / Composer
- Mark-Anthony Turnage
- Product number
- 750077
- Difficulty Level
- 5
- Languages
- english
Description
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 tran...
Content
- I Prologue
- II Loss (Rudyard Kipling)
- III No more jokes (Isaac Rosenberg)
- IV Wounded (Wilfried Owen)
- V Interlude
- VI The mouthless dead (Charles Sorley)
- VII Aftermath (Siegfried Sassoon)