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    New releases: Anders Hillborg, Hans Abrahamsen

    by 5:4 March 19, 2016 • 13:16
    March 19, 2016 • 13:16

    Continuing with Scandinavian new releases, a new disc from Bis featuring four works by Anders Hillborg is a real treat. It’s a generalisation, of course, but the focus of Hillborg’s music tends to be on the surface, and this understandably polarises listeners. Usually, the successes of this approach come out…

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    CBSO Centre, Birmingham: BCMG – The Comedy of Change

    by 5:4 November 16, 2015 • 12:43
    November 16, 2015 • 12:43

    Last night’s concert given by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted on this occasion by Oliver Knussen, was a typically tightly-packed affair, featuring seven works (plus an encore) that, despite their respective brevity, added up to a concert that was surprisingly lengthy and filling. Calling it an embarrassment of riches wouldn’t…

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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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    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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