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Article: Reviews: Classical london sinfonietta / knussen queen elizabeth hall london birmingham contemporary music group / rundel barbican centre london
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 7, 2002
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MARK-ANTHONY Turnage-watchers had two chances to catch recent
scores last weekend, before the English National Opera's revival of
The Silver Tassie from 26 June. The London Sinfonietta's British
premiere, on Friday, of Dark Crossing (first heard last November in
Basel) was followed on Sunday by the Birmingham Contemporary Music
Group's first British performances of Bass Inventions (premiered last
May in Amsterdam).
They are the first purely instrumental works that Turnage has
composed since completing The Silver Tassie. Both are,
unsurprisingly, not only steeped in this composer's jazz-inflected