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    Proms 2017: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 September 24, 2017 • 11:31
    September 24, 2017 • 11:31

    i want to say thank you to all of you who took time to vote in this year’s 5:4 Proms polls. More of you than ever expressed your views about this year’s premières: a total of 1,096 votes were cast, an increase of 17% from last year. However, the distribution…

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    Proms 2017: Lotta Wennäkoski – Flounce (World Première)

    by 5:4 September 10, 2017 • 10:49
    September 10, 2017 • 10:49

    After eight weeks of (for the most part) serious music-making, the Last Night of the Proms, quite reasonably, is primarily disposed to the aim of letting of steam and just having fun. For the contemporary composer chosen to get the evening going each year, the enormous sense of occasion –…

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    Proms 2017: pre-première questions with Lotta Wennäkoski

    by 5:4 September 9, 2017 • 05:00
    September 9, 2017 • 05:00

    This evening, Finnish composer Lotta Wennäkoski‘s new work Flounce will literally become the beginning of the end, getting started the Last Night of the Proms. For the final time this year then, here are my pre-première questions, together with Wennäkoski’s answers and her programme note for the piece. Many thanks to Lotta…

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    Proms 2017: Missy Mazzoli – Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) (European Première); Catherine Lamb – Prisma Interius V; Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch – The Minutes (World Premières)

    by 5:4 September 7, 2017 • 19:39
    September 7, 2017 • 19:39

    The last three Proms premières, though very different in some respects, shared some important things in common. All of them, Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) by Missy Mazzoli, Prisma Interius V by Catherine Lamb and The Minutes by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, eschew silence and focus primarily on harmonic movement – or, more specifically,…

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    Proms 2017: pre-première questions with Catherine Lamb

    by 5:4 September 6, 2017 • 05:00
    September 6, 2017 • 05:00

    Concert halls be damned! Tonight the Proms makes another of its peripatetic excursions beyond the confines of the Royal Albert Hall, paying a first visit to The Tanks at Tate Modern. Among the music being performed will be the world première of Prisma Interius V by experimental American composer Catherine Lamb.…

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    Proms 2017: pre-première questions with Missy Mazzoli

    by 5:4 September 5, 2017 • 05:00
    September 5, 2017 • 05:00

    This evening’s Prom concert includes the first European performance of the orchestral version of Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) by US composer Missy Mazzoli. For those unfamiliar with her work, here are her answers to my pre-première questions, together with the programme note for the piece. Many thanks to Missy for her…

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    Proms 2017: Hannah Kendall – The Spark Catchers (World Première)

    by 5:4 September 1, 2017 • 09:06
    September 1, 2017 • 09:06

    The latest orchestral work by British composer Hannah Kendall received its first performance a couple of nights ago at a late night Prom given by Chineke! Orchestra, the flagship orchestra of the Chineke! Foundation, established a couple of years ago “to provide career opportunities to young Black and Minority Ethnic…

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    Proms 2017: Andrea Tarrodi – Liguria (UK Première)

    by 5:4 August 31, 2017 • 12:59
    August 31, 2017 • 12:59

    Last night saw the second UK première by a Swedish composer at this year’s Proms, this time from Andrea Tarrodi. For those unfamiliar with her work, the key part of her responses to my pre-première questions was the reference to her parallel passion for painting, plus the related fact that…

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    Proms 2017: pre-première questions with Hannah Kendall

    by 5:4 August 30, 2017 • 07:12
    August 30, 2017 • 07:12

    Today’s late-evening Prom given by the Chineke! orchestra opens with a new work by British composer Hannah Kendall, titled The Spark Catchers. In preparation, here are Kendall’s answers to my pre-première questions, together with the work’s programme note. Many thanks to Hannah for her answers.

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    Proms 2017: pre-première questions with Andrea Tarrodi

    by 5:4 August 30, 2017 • 05:00
    August 30, 2017 • 05:00

    Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi‘s orchestral piece Liguria, composed in 2012, receives its first UK performance at this evening’s Prom concert. Her music is new to me and, i’m sure, to many others, so her answers to my pre-première questions provide some invaluable background information, along with her programme note for the…

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    Proms 2017: Gerald Barry – Canada (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 28, 2017 • 12:55
    August 28, 2017 • 12:55

    They may start to behave in ways that are challenging and distressing, both for themselves and those around them. For example, they may: become restless or agitated shout out or scream become suspicious of others follow someone around ask the same question repeatedly. It is important to look at why…

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    Proms 2017: Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Jonathan Dove, Daniel Saleeb – Chorale Preludes (World Premières)

    by 5:4 August 25, 2017 • 11:14
    August 25, 2017 • 11:14

    As will have been clear from my 38th mixtape back in April, my love affair with the organ has been a long and significant one. It’s an instrument that often gets overlooked in the world of contemporary music, so a definite plus of this year’s Proms season has been the…

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    Proms 2017: Thomas Larcher – Nocturne – Insomnia (UK Première); Michael Gordon – Big Space (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 24, 2017 • 11:47
    August 24, 2017 • 11:47

    Listening to two recent Proms premières back-to-back, Thomas Larcher‘s Nocturne – Insomnia and Michael Gordon‘s Big Space, turned out to be thought-provoking in ways that i’m sure are entirely unrelated to the composers’ intentions. The reason is that both pieces seem to be poles-apart approaches to creating the musical equivalent of…

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    Proms 2017: Mark-Anthony Turnage – Hibiki (European première)

    by 5:4 August 23, 2017 • 16:24
    August 23, 2017 • 16:24

    The music of Mark-Anthony Turnage has been on my mind quite a bit of late. i’ve been revisiting my aged CD of his seminal work Three Screaming Popes, released 25 years ago, which was also the first piece of Turnage’s i ever heard performed live, during my undergrad days in Birmingham.…

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    Proms 2017: Judith Weir – In the Land of Uz (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 22, 2017 • 12:16
    August 22, 2017 • 12:16

    As i mentioned in my recent essay for Sounds Like Now, the statistics for contemporary music by women at the 2017 Proms concerts are lamentable: four-fifths of the new music heard this year is by men. Judith Weir is therefore something of an exception – doubly so, as not only…

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    Proms 2017: pre-première questions with Cheryl Frances-Hoad

    by 5:4 August 20, 2017 • 05:00
    August 20, 2017 • 05:00

    This afternoon’s Prom concert, titled Bach’s ‘Little Organ Book’ past and present, affords the opportunity to hear no fewer than three world premières, each of them short works continuing the Germanic tradition of the chorale prelude, reworking hymn tunes. One of the composers featured is Cheryl Frances-Hoad, and as preparation for…

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    Proms 2017: Brian Elias – Cello Concerto (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 11, 2017 • 21:14
    August 11, 2017 • 21:14

    Around a month ago, i bumped into Brian Elias at the Cheltenham Music Festival, and we had a brief chat about his forthcoming Cello Concerto, premièred a couple of nights ago at the Proms. As i mentioned in my article with his pre-première questions, he expressed some reservations about including…

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    Proms 2017: pre-première questions with Brian Elias

    by 5:4 August 9, 2017 • 05:00
    August 9, 2017 • 05:00

    This evening’s Prom concert includes the world première of the new Cello Concerto by India-born, British composer Brian Elias. It’s five years since his music was last heard at the Proms, when his powerful scena Electra Mourns (setting Sophocles) received its first performance, and tonight is Elias’ fourth appearance at the…

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    Proms 2017: Erkki-Sven Tüür – Flamma (UK Première)

    by 5:4 August 4, 2017 • 11:46
    August 4, 2017 • 11:46

    i’ve written a fair bit about Estonian music this year, and in many ways composer Erkki-Sven Tüür breaks the mould. There’s not, of course, just one approach to be found in contemporary music in Estonia, yet significant evidence of outside musical influences (as i’ve noted previously) can be difficult to find.…

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    Proms 2017: pre-première questions with Erkki-Sven Tüür

    by 5:4 August 3, 2017 • 05:00
    August 3, 2017 • 05:00

    One of Estonian’s best-known composers, Erkki-Sven Tüür, makes his second visit to the Proms this evening, for the UK première of his work for strings Flamma by the Australian Chamber Orchestra (he was last heard at the Royal Albert Hall in 2003, with the Concerto for Violin). Like most of his fellow Estonians,…

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