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    Unsuk Chin – Six Piano Études

    by 5:4 February 12, 2013 • 20:58
    February 12, 2013 • 20:58

    It’s been quite a while since my articles on the Barbican’s 2011 Total Immersion Day devoted to Unsuk Chin, but here’s an omission from that account, which was only broadcast recently. The day began with a piano recital given by Clare Hammond, featuring Chin’s Six Piano Études. It’s perhaps not…

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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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    Conlon Nancarrow (arr. Yvar Mikhashoff) – Study No. 7

    by 5:4 October 27, 2012 • 10:26
    October 27, 2012 • 10:26

    Today is the 100th anniverary of the birth of North America’s most singularly unorthodox composer, Conlon Nancarrow. Born in Arkansas but spending most of his life in Mexico, Nancarrow’s legacy is dominated by the large number of studies he composed for the player piano. His compositional practice was a punctilious…

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  • FestivalsPremières

    Proms 2012: Michael Finnissy – Piano Concerto No. 2, Harrison Birtwistle – Gigue Machine (UK Premières) & Brian Elias – Electra Mourns (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 19, 2012 • 16:31
    August 19, 2012 • 16:31

    Last weekend’s Proms Matinee, given by the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Clark Rundell, was the concert i had been most eagerly awaiting in this year’s season, featuring as it did some of my favourite composers and three premières. Back in April i opined that this concert “may just turn out to…

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  • FestivalsPremières

    Proms 2012: Richard Dubugnon – Battlefield Concerto (UK Première)

    by 5:4 August 17, 2012 • 12:23
    August 17, 2012 • 12:23

    Concertos are a regular feature among the new works heard at the Proms, but it’s rare to hear one for two pianos; Richard Dubugnon’s Battlefield Concerto, composed for those most characterful and quirky of siblings, Katia and Marielle Labèque, was therefore a refreshing break from the norm. It was given…

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    Proms 2011: Kevin Volans – Piano Concerto No. 3 (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 24, 2011 • 21:12
    August 24, 2011 • 21:12

    If one thing has dominated the premières at this year’s Proms, it’s the presence of the concerto; thus far, we’ve heard no fewer than six (Dalbavie, Carter, Holloway, Holt, Larcher and Aperghis), with more coming in the days ahead. Monday’s Prom brought yet another concerto into being, Kevin Volans‘ Piano…

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    Proms 2011: Peter Maxwell Davies – Il rozzo martello; Georges Aperghis – Champ-Contrechamp (World Première); Harrison Birtwistle – Angel Fighter (UK Première)

    by 5:4 August 22, 2011 • 12:52
    August 22, 2011 • 12:52

    Last Saturday’s Proms matinee was devoted to new music, featuring no less a line-up than the BBC Singers and the London Sinfonietta, both conducted by David Atherton. The concert opened with Peter Maxwell Davies‘ Il rozzo martello, a sombre and rather austere choral work that comes across as older than…

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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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    Proms 2010: Bent Sørensen – La mattina (Piano Concerto No. 2) (UK Première)

    by 5:4 August 27, 2010 • 21:41
    August 27, 2010 • 21:41

    This year’s Proms has already had a couple of concerto premières, and the third, from Bent Sørensen, is one for piano and orchestra. Inspiration for the work, La mattina (Piano Concerto No. 2) is in part connected to Mozart, and Sørensen has opted for an orchestra of like size (no…

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    Ancient and modern: Unsuk Chin – Violin Concerto, Miroirs des temps; Chris Dench – Passing bells: night

    by 5:4 September 23, 2008 • 19:15
    September 23, 2008 • 19:15

    i’ve been a fan of Unsuk Chin‘s music ever since she returned to instrumental writing in the early ’90s with Akrostichon-Wortspiel. Her Violin Concerto is awash with invention; all the talk of open strings is simply an opening gambit, from where it departs into vivid and distinctly unfamiliar territory. Often,…

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  • Premières

    Thomas Adès – These Premises Are Alarmed, Concerto Conciso, Asyla (World Premières)

    by 5:4 May 14, 2008 • 19:11
    May 14, 2008 • 19:11

    i’ve been interested in Thomas Adès‘ work for many years, so here are recordings of the world première performances of three of his compositions. The tale behind his miniature orchestral work These Premises Are Alarmed is interesting, if disappointing. Adès was commissioned to compose a piece for the series of…

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