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  • FestivalsPremières

    Proms 2015: Eleanor Alberga – Arise, Athena! (World Première)

    by 5:4 September 13, 2015 • 15:42
    September 13, 2015 • 15:42

    New music at the Proms, and the season itself, came to an end at yesterday’s Last Night, with the world première of Jamaican-born composer Eleanor Alberga’s brief concert-opener Arise, Athena!, performed by the BBC Symphony Chorus with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop. According to the composer, the…

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    Proms 2015: Cheryl Frances-Hoad – From the Beginning of the World (World Première)

    by 5:4 July 27, 2015 • 19:52
    July 27, 2015 • 19:52

    Relatively few of the Proms premières include vocal elements, which makes Cheryl-Frances Hoad‘s new work From the Beginning of the World, first performed last Monday, a very welcome exception to the norm. Initially billed as ‘Homage to Tallis’, her piece was nestled amidst a concert otherwise dedicated entirely to the…

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    Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: Carl Rütti – In this season of the year (World Première); Harrison Birtwistle – O my deare hert, young Jesu sweit

    by 5:4 December 26, 2014 • 17:29
    December 26, 2014 • 17:29

    This year’s new carol commissioned by King’s College, Cambridge for the Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols was written by Swiss composer Carl Rütti. There’s not really a great deal one can say about it; Rütti was always going to deliver something cosy and comfortable, which for that reason alone…

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  • 19th CenturyThematic series

    Hector Berlioz – Grande messe des morts

    by 5:4 November 9, 2014 • 14:39
    November 9, 2014 • 14:39

    Today’s work in my ongoing series on the subject of death is not contemporary, not in the least, but is one which nonetheless still sounds as vital and as daring as it did when it was premièred 177 years ago. The Grande messe des morts was Hector Berlioz‘s epic response…

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  • Thematic series

    Gabriel Jackson – Justorum animæ

    by 5:4 November 2, 2014 • 13:03
    November 2, 2014 • 13:03

    The aspect of death explored in Gabriel Jackson‘s short choral work Justorum animæ is on the peace it brings to the souls of the departed, a fitting theme for today, being All Souls’ Day. The Latin text is drawn from the offertory from yesterday’s liturgies for All Saints’ Day, originating…

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  • FestivalsPremières

    Proms 2014: John Tavener – Gnōsis & Requiem Fragments (World Premières)

    by 5:4 August 5, 2014 • 13:45
    August 5, 2014 • 13:45

    In the wake of John Tavener‘s death in November last year, more mainstream music festivals have been rather tripping over themselves to offer posthumous tributes; the Cheltenham Festival devoted two concerts to his music last month, and the Proms has done likewise, including the world premières of two of Tavener’s…

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  • Lent SeriesPremières

    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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  • FestivalsPremières

    HCMF 2013 revisited: Cecilie Ore – Come to the Edge! (World Première)

    by 5:4 January 15, 2014 • 22:51
    January 15, 2014 • 22:51

    Memories and afterthoughts of the exhilarating and, at times, revelatory experiences from HCMF 2013 haven’t really stopped swirling around my mind, so i’m going to begin 2014 by revisiting some of the most interesting highlights, starting with a world première given by the BBC Singers, directed by Nicolas Kok. Even…

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    Proms 2013: Harrison Birtwistle – The Moth Requiem (UK Première)

    by 5:4 August 13, 2013 • 17:54
    August 13, 2013 • 17:54

    On the one hand, the BBC’s decision not to provide online programme notes in any form for this year’s Prom concerts is as hard to understand as it is unequivocally idiotic. On the other hand, it forces listeners to engage with music on its own terms, without the cosy couch…

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    Proms 2013: Julian Anderson – Harmony (World Première)

    by 5:4 July 13, 2013 • 08:34
    July 13, 2013 • 08:34

    Last night the 2013 Proms season began, as it now always does, with a world première from a mainstream composer. At the outset, i have to admit to a certain lack of enthusiasm for the occasion, due both to the recent track record of the opening night (Turnage and Weir…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    Fearless forays into choral hinterlands: Exaudi – Exposure

    by 5:4 May 10, 2013 • 17:22
    May 10, 2013 • 17:22

    Newly available this week from the thoroughly ambitious Huddersfield Contemporary Records is Exposure, a collection of choral works performed by contemporary music’s most adventurous cluster of vocalists, Exaudi Vocal Ensemble, directed by James Weeks. As with all of HCR’s releases (the rest of which are well worth exploring – details…

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  • 20th CenturyFeatured Artists

    Ferneyhough Week – Missa Brevis

    by 5:4 January 17, 2013 • 09:25
    January 17, 2013 • 09:25

    From one of Brian Ferneyhough’s less familiar works i’m turning today to one of the best known, the Missa Brevis, composed in 1969. The very fact that Ferneyhough turned to a form and text so embedded in the development and consciousness of western music, so infused with associations, may seem…

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  • Advent & ChristmasPremières

    Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols (King’s College, Cambridge): Carl Vine – Ring out, wild bells (World Première)

    by 5:4 December 26, 2012 • 14:51
    December 26, 2012 • 14:51

    This year’s Festival of Nine Lessons andamp; Carols from King’s College, Cambridge, had been prefaced by two newspaper articles, in the Guardian andamp; the Telegraph, both of which went to some lengths to emphasise choir director Stephen Cleobury’s determination to include new music in the service. It was therefore very…

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  • CommemorationsPremières

    In Memoriam: Jonathan Harvey – Messages (World Première)

    by 5:4 December 6, 2012 • 21:54
    December 6, 2012 • 21:54

    To find myself writing the words “In Memoriam” for the third time in as many months is deeply saddening, all the more so as the loss of Jonathan Harvey, who died two days ago aged 73, is one that feels particularly acute here in the UK. Whether Harvey was our…

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  • Advent & ChristmasPremières

    Advent Carol Service (St John’s College, Cambridge): James Long, Matthew Martin, William Whitehead

    by 5:4 December 3, 2012 • 11:28
    December 3, 2012 • 11:28

    Last week’s Advent Carol Service from St John’s College, Cambridge, once again included several pieces of more recent music. The newly commissioned piece came from a composer i’ve not heard of, James Long. Long’s anthem, Vigilate, weaves together words from the Biblical books of Mark and Revelation to arrive at a…

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    In Memoriam: Elliott Carter – Heart, not so heavy as mine

    by 5:4 November 6, 2012 • 14:16
    November 6, 2012 • 14:16

    Words by E. E. Cummings that came to mind last night following the first reports of the death of Elliott Carter, at the age of 103. i know i wasn’t alone in feeling an intensely heavy sadness at the news; one tended to think Carter was so single-mindedly alive that…

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  • FestivalsPremières

    Proms 2012: Eric Whitacre – Higher, Faster, Stronger; Imogen Heap – The Listening Chair (World Premières)

    by 5:4 August 30, 2012 • 19:57
    August 30, 2012 • 19:57

    Yesterday’s late night Prom focused on the USA’s most popular manufacturer of choral music, Eric Whitacre. Featuring his own choir joining forces with the BBC Singers and ensemblebash, the concert included two world premières, a new work of Whitacre’s own plus an arrangement by him of a new song by…

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    Proms 2012: James MacMillan – Credo (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 9, 2012 • 18:54
    August 9, 2012 • 18:54

    Wednesday’s Prom concert featured a new work from James MacMillan, a setting of the Creed from the liturgy of the Mass. Composers rarely set the Creed to music, not, i think, simply because it’s such a long and convoluted text (although it is, and this may also in part account…

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    Proms 2012: Bob Chilcott – The Angry Planet (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 6, 2012 • 11:09
    August 6, 2012 • 11:09

    The most ambitious of this year’s Proms premières took place yesterday afternoon: Bob Chilcott‘s 45-minute ‘environmental cantata’ The Angry Planet. Teaming up with poet Charles Bennett, Chilcott’s work was performed by the vast combined forces of three children’s choirs (from the London boroughs of Harrow, Kensington, and Chelsea and Westminster)…

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    Proms 2012: Julian Philips – Sorowfull Songes (World Première)

    by 5:4 July 24, 2012 • 00:14
    July 24, 2012 • 00:14

    Yesterday afternoon saw the first new work to be featured in the Proms Chamber Music series. Sorowfull Songes is a small choral song cycle by English composer Julian Philips, setting five texts by the great Thomas Wyatt. Don’t be fooled by the title, though, as there’s nothing remotely Dowlandesque about…

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