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    HCMF 2015 revisited: Naomi Pinnock – Lines and Spaces (World Première)

    by 5:4 November 14, 2016 • 15:35
    November 14, 2016 • 15:35

    There are just four days to go until the start of this year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and UK audiences get the chance–denied them at most other festivals on these shores—to experience some of today’s most experimental, radical and open-minded music-making. All being well i’ll be there for the duration…

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    Jürg Frey – Accurate Placement (World Première)

    by 5:4 June 27, 2016 • 22:10
    June 27, 2016 • 22:10

    A piece that’s been quietly beguiling me of late is Accurate Placement, by the Swiss composer Jürg Frey. A 16-minute work for solo double bass, it received its first performance last November, at one of the few HCMF concerts i didn’t get to. As my articles from that time will have made…

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    HCMF 2015: Eastern Waves, Arditti Quartet

    by 5:4 November 30, 2015 • 16:22
    November 30, 2015 • 16:22

    Saturday afternoon at HCMF brought ‘Eastern Waves’, a double-bill of experimental electronics courtesy of Tomek Mirt and Maja S K Ratkje, each re-working compositions from each other’s country. Mirt took Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim’s Solitaire as his basis, creating—via extensive knob-twiddling on a complex vertical stack of devices festooned with…

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    HCMF 2015: Ensemble Grizzana, Philip Thomas

    by 5:4 November 28, 2015 • 20:42
    November 28, 2015 • 20:42

    Two concerts yesterday, on what had punningly come to be known as “Frey-day”, afforded the opportunity to spend considerably more time with the music of Jürg Frey. i’ve been wrangling with how the word ‘ascetic’ sits with respect to Frey’s music. It’s not, i believe, music wearing a hairshirt, but…

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    HCMF 2015: Erik Drescher, Jonty Harrison, Biliana Voutchkova

    by 5:4 November 26, 2015 • 14:19
    November 26, 2015 • 14:19

    In a refreshing break from the large number of groups and ensembles that have dominated HCMF so far, yesterday was given over to three individuals. The first was Berlin-based flautist Erik Drescher, in a recital of works, all receiving their UK premières, specifically composed for the glissando flute (fitted with a…

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    HCMF 2015: Konus Quartett, Daniel Buess & Aleksander Gabryś, Ensemble CEPROMUSIC, Jakob Ullmann

    by 5:4 November 25, 2015 • 15:15
    November 25, 2015 • 15:15

    A feature of many of this year’s HCMF concerts has been a blurring of the distinction between pitch and noise, but the midday recital given by Swiss saxophone group Konus Quartett tilted the focus firmly back on pitch. Both works, Jürg Frey‘s Mémoire, horizon and Chiyoko Szlavnics‘ During a Lifetime…

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    HCMF 2015: Shorts

    by 5:4 November 24, 2015 • 11:05
    November 24, 2015 • 11:05

    Being a Cotswolds lad, born and raised, i’d have to liken HCMF’s ‘Shorts’ day of free miniature concerts yesterday to a long walk over the hills, with spectacular vistas yet passing through numerous fields randomly distributed with large cowpats. In each field, you pick a direction and stick to it,…

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    HCMF 2015: Quatuor Bozzini, Ensemble Phoenix Basel

    by 5:4 November 23, 2015 • 00:41
    November 23, 2015 • 00:41

    Today’s afternoon concerts occupied opposite ends of a number of musical continua, the most obvious being dynamic. At the quiet end, in St Paul’s Hall, were the Bozzini Quartet with music by HCMF resident composer Jürg Frey; at the loud end, fighting the prevailing chill in Bates Mill Blending Shed,…

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    HCMF 2015: Richard Uttley, United Instruments of Lucilin

    by 5:4 November 22, 2015 • 18:02
    November 22, 2015 • 18:02

    It’s perhaps a little early, following just two concerts yesterday evening, to start describing the characteristics that typify this year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. But based on these, and considering the featured composer is Jürg Frey, it would seem that ‘delicacy’ is going to be one of this year’s prevailing…

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    HCMF 2015: looking forward

    by 5:4 November 3, 2015 • 12:38
    November 3, 2015 • 12:38

    It’s November, which of course means that the annual pilgrimage to the UK’s new music mecca is only a few weeks’ away. The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival has this year opted for a demonstrably reflective tone, building on the remarkable performances of music by, in particular, Jakob Ullmann and Antoine…

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