A live-streamed concert from the Royal Academy of Music to celebrate Mark-Anthony Turnage’s 60th birthday – the climax of this week’s residency in the Composition Department conducted by Christopher Austin. The concert includes works such as ‘Release’, which was composed for the BBC Two series Sound on Film and begins by quoting the haunting aria ‘We only love’ from Greek, Turnage’s first opera. ‘Eulogy’ is a plangent song without words for viola, composed for Lawrence Power and the Nash Ensemble. A classic of the modern cello repertoire, Kai was written in memory of Kai Scheffler, Principal Cello and founding member of Ensemble Modern. The premiere of a new work, ‘The Beauty of Decay’, by Grace-Evangeline Mason completes the programme.