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    Blasts from the Past: Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 7

    by 5:4 June 9, 2021 • 17:30
    June 9, 2021 • 17:30

    It’s often felt a bit strange for me that the composer about whose music i’m the most passionate, whose music occupies the largest percentage of my music collection, and whose music i’ve analysed and studied in more depth and therefore know more about than any other composer, is someone i…

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    Blasts from the Past: Dmitri Shostakovich – Cello Concerto No. 2

    by 5:4 September 25, 2016 • 11:12
    September 25, 2016 • 11:12

    On this day, in 1966, Dmitri Shostakovich turned 60, and the evening brought a birthday concert including the world première of his Cello Concerto No. 2. The piece is well worth singling out for celebration, partly because to my mind it starts to resolve the very real difficulties that confront…

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    Blasts from the Past: Olivier Messiaen – Quatuor pour la fin du temps

    by 5:4 January 15, 2016 • 09:55
    January 15, 2016 • 09:55

    World premières are understandably exciting occasions—but, equally, they can often be fraught with difficulty and no little controversy. The annals of music history contain many such examples, from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring to Cage’s 4’33”, but today marks the 75th anniversary of one of the most legendary and poignant of…

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    Blasts from the Past: Pierre Boulez – Piano Sonata No. 1

    by 5:4 January 5, 2016 • 22:51
    January 5, 2016 • 22:51

    “Vous êtes de la merde!” i’m going to begin 2016 by looking back 70 years to the earliest acknowledged work by one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated composers, Pierre Boulez. For much of his life, but particularly as a young composer, Boulez’s perceived demeanour was, to put it mildly,…

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    Blasts from the Past: Aldo Clementi – Madrigale

    by 5:4 October 18, 2014 • 11:28
    October 18, 2014 • 11:28

    My next blast from the past is a rather lovely work by the Italian composer Aldo Clementi, who died in 2011. Clementi’s interest in both bell-type sounds (music boxes, carillons, etc.) and the notion of self-generating music can be heard to good effect in Madrigale, composed 35 years ago, in…

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    Blasts from the Past: György Ligeti – Poème symphonique

    by 5:4 June 14, 2014 • 16:05
    June 14, 2014 • 16:05

    A couple of days ago marked the eighth anniversary of the death of Hungarian composer György Ligeti. To mark the event, and also begin a new occasional series on 5:4, i’d like to take a brief look back at one of the more enigmatic works of Ligeti’s career. Poème symphonique…

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