Proms 2015: Anders Hillborg – Beast Sampler (UK Première); Raymond Yiu – Symphony; Alissa Firsova – Bergen’s Bonfire (World Premières)

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Dieter Fochs

Thank you for this years proms!

Graham

+ for providing the only dissenting voice on the Yiu Symphony which has been met with heaps of praise in the press. For instance,one writer felt it eclipsed the Janacek Sinfonietta. In reality, I think the most authentic music shone through in the light-music 4th movement. Cloying references to Das Lied von der Erde at the end didn’t quite convince me. Give me this flawed Symphony any day over the bombast of MacMillan’s 4th Symphony though.

[…] exactly help. But it’s the odd one out on a disc that is otherwise nothing but a delight. Beast Sampler and Cold Heat—both works featured before on 5:4 following their appearances at the Proms—sound […]

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