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Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.

World Premiere
06/12/2014
Wigmore Hall, London
Belcea Quartet
Press Quotes

"Contusion is a concise, poignantly balanced one movement cry of pain. Its structure echoes classical sonata form, with its tight, numb and often repeated opening figure flowering into a much more anguished central section before the terse figure returns transformed yet unassuaged in a bleakly whispered ending in which the cello briefly takes wing. The Belceas played it with an intensity that suggests a modern classic."
The Guardian

"The work references a poem that Sylvia Plath wrote 12 days before her death, but its bleakness is transformed into passion and struggle in Turnage’s music — jagged chords, a troubled rocking motion, anguish, pain."
Financial Times



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