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    Alison Kay – Flux (World Première)

    by 5:4 March 13, 2014 • 22:21
    March 13, 2014 • 22:21

    Next in my Lent Series is a piece by a composer whose work i’ve encountered precisely once. Born in 1970, Alison Kay‘s studies took her from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama to the Royal College of Music to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and finally…

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    Chaya Czernowin – Afatsim

    by 5:4 March 9, 2014 • 16:54
    March 9, 2014 • 16:54

    The next piece in my Lent Series celebrating women composers is by the Israeli Chaya Czernowin. Czernowin left Israel in her 20s, studying first in Germany and then the United States (her teachers included Brian Ferneyhough and Roger Reynolds), where she remains today, in Boston. One of the features of…

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  • FestivalsPremières

    HCMF 2013 revisited: James Clarke – 2013-V (World Première)

    by 5:4 January 31, 2014 • 00:34
    January 31, 2014 • 00:34

    If there’s one thing that unites almost the entirety of the contemporary music spectrum, it’s a fondness for allusive titles. There isn’t anything inherently wrong with that, of course, but it can have the unfortunate side effect of encouraging too many listeners to switch off a portion of their critical…

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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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    James Dillon – Nine Rivers (World Première) – 7. éileadh sguaibe

    by 5:4 November 4, 2011 • 08:20
    November 4, 2011 • 08:20

    Having kept the electronics on a very tight leash in L’œuvre au noir, James Dillon reins them in almost completely in the seventh work of the Nine Rivers cycle, éileadh sguaibe. Like its predecessor, the work was also commissioned for the Paragon Ensemble, who gave the first performance in January…

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    James Dillon – Nine Rivers (World Première) – 6. L’œuvre au noir

    by 5:4 November 3, 2011 • 07:56
    November 3, 2011 • 07:56

    The third and final part of James Dillon’s Nine Rivers bears the subtitle ‘Melanosis’, another reference to alchemy, this time ‘blackening’. This is, in fact, the first of the three stages of the alchemical process; Dillon began with the middle stage (leukosis), followed by the final stage (iosis), so the…

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    James Dillon – Nine Rivers (World Première) – 4. La femme invisible

    by 5:4 November 1, 2011 • 09:51
    November 1, 2011 • 09:51

    The opening three works in the Nine Rivers cycle alternate between homogeneous and variegated timbral groupings; the fourth piece, La femme invisible, continues this using a mixed ensemble comprising the three percussionists from L’ECRAN joined by a piano and wind octet (two each of flutes, oboes, clarinets and saxophones, with…

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    James Dillon – Nine Rivers (World Première) – 2. L’ECRAN parfum

    by 5:4 October 30, 2011 • 09:46
    October 30, 2011 • 09:46

    Following the large-scale “triumphant hubbub” that is East 11th St NY 10003, the second work in James Dillon’s Nine Rivers halves the number of percussionists and adds six violins. L’ECRAN Parfum (‘SCREEN perfume’) was composed in 1988, and received its first performance the following spring by the Oslo Sinfonietta. At…

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    Barbican, London: Unsuk Chin – Total Immersion

    by 5:4 April 10, 2011 • 15:39
    April 10, 2011 • 15:39

    Yesterday was a long day, spent in the company of the music of Unsuk Chin, the latest composer to be featured in the Barbican’s ongoing Total Immersion series. In some ways, it feels like Chin’s music has been around forever—or, at least, for the last 20 years, since Acrostic-Wordplay first…

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  • Premières

    Anna Meredith – Four Tributes to 4am (World Première)

    by 5:4 February 22, 2011 • 12:30
    February 22, 2011 • 12:30

    It’s high time we caught up with some premières here on 5:4; there have been quite a few on Radio 3 in the last few months, and by the look of things, there are going to be many more in the near future. Last night, the first performance of a…

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  • FestivalsPremières

    Proms 2010: Hans Abrahamsen – Wald (UK Première) plus Knussen, Bedford and Benjamin

    by 5:4 August 20, 2010 • 11:56
    August 20, 2010 • 11:56

    So, where were we? Ah yes, The Proms; my catchup starts with the concert that took place on Friday 6 August, given by the splendid Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Oliver Knussen‘s Two Organa is a work all the more engaging for its entirely lopsided nature. The first ‘organum’, “Notre Dame…

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