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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012

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    Maja S K Ratkje – Crepuscular Hour (UK Première)

    by 5:4 April 19, 2014 • 20:50
    April 19, 2014 • 20:50

    Today is the final day of Lent, so it’s time to draw my series focusing on music by women composers to a close. As it’s Easter Eve, the time associated with the great late-night vigil, i can’t think of a more appropriate piece with which to end the Lent Series…

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    Christopher Fox – Chambre privée (World Première)

    by 5:4 March 14, 2013 • 19:33
    March 14, 2013 • 19:33

    Imagine a culture in which the string quartet has no history. No Haydn, no late-Beethoven, no Bartok, no Eleanor Rigby. How would a group of four string players – why four? why not? why two violins? maybe the bass player couldn’t get up the stairs… How would a group of…

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    Simon Steen-Andersen – String Quartet No. 2 (UK Première)

    by 5:4 February 21, 2013 • 22:45
    February 21, 2013 • 22:45

    If there’s one thing practically guaranteed every year at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, it’s the presence of a string quartet that approaches the medium from a radical perspective, one that does away, almost entirely, with its traditions and connotations. The next work in my Lent series focusing on new…

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    HCMF 2012: Cikada Ensemble

    by 5:4 February 10, 2013 • 17:43
    February 10, 2013 • 17:43

    The last concert i attended in my weekend at HCMF 2012 took place back in Bates Mill, in the company of Norway’s remarkable Cikada Ensemble, whom i’ve been fortunate to hear on a number of occasions. More than most, Cikada tend to give off an air of almost aggressive fearlessness,…

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    HCMF 2012: Arditti Quartet

    by 5:4 February 3, 2013 • 11:57
    February 3, 2013 • 11:57

    Two months may have passed, but memories of the all-too-brief weekend i spent at HCMF 2012 are alive and well; so let’s pick up where i left off. The second day of my HCMF experience began once again in St Paul’s Hall, confronted by the understated marvel that is the…

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    HCMF 2012: Ensemble Resonanz

    by 5:4 November 22, 2012 • 22:14
    November 22, 2012 • 22:14

    The first day of my weekend at HCMF ended back where it had begun, in St Paul’s Hall, for a late-night concert by Ensemble Resonanz, conducted by Peter Rundel. The concert was broadcast live on Radio 3 and comprised just three pieces, all focusing on strings, two of which featured…

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    HCMF 2012: Oslo Sinfonietta

    by 5:4 November 18, 2012 • 20:35
    November 18, 2012 • 20:35

    Following a collection of strangers down a bleak back street to a gloomy factory and then passing through a makeshift entrance labelled ‘The Blending Shed’ might sound like the makings of a nightmare, but this was the way in which i found myself at Bates Mill, for yesterday evening’s concert…

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    HCMF 2012: Heather Roche

    by 5:4 November 18, 2012 • 11:19
    November 18, 2012 • 11:19

    Yesterday the evening began with clarinettist Heather Roche, of whom multiple friends have spoken warmly but i had never heard play. The recital took place deep in the bowels of the University’s temple-like Creative Arts building, and comprised a selection of pieces incorporating electronics. Quite a few of them—Aaron Einbond’s…

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    HCMF 2012: Nicolas Hodges

    by 5:4 November 17, 2012 • 19:22
    November 17, 2012 • 19:22

    My HCMF 2012 experience began at midday today in St Paul’s Hall, with Nicolas Hodges’ lunchtime recital featuring piano music by Jean Barraqué. It’s rare, but marvellous, when a concert can be genuinely eye-opening, and everything about this recital was just that. Before the concert, i knew very little of…

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