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    Proms 2022: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 September 24, 2022 • 10:19
    September 24, 2022 • 10:19

    It’s been a little over two weeks since the BBC bafflingly decided, rather than to channel the Last Night of the Proms (the UK’s most shamelessly jingoistic occasion) into an evening both celebrating the life and commemorating the death of the Queen, that they would instead simply pull the plug.…

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    Proms 2021: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 September 28, 2021 • 11:22
    September 28, 2021 • 11:22

    Two weeks have passed since this year’s Proms season came to an end, so it’s time to take a look at how you responded to each of the new works in the annual 5:4 Proms première polls. i want to thank all of you who voted; there was a healthy-sized…

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    Proms 2020: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 October 12, 2020 • 12:03
    October 12, 2020 • 12:03

    Many thanks to those of you who voted in this year’s Proms première polls. Not surprisingly, given the circumstances, the turnout was considerably lower than usual, with just under 200 votes cast. Considering that the polls were only open for four weeks this year (instead of the usual 10), and…

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    Proms 2019: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 October 2, 2019 • 12:17
    October 2, 2019 • 12:17

    Many thanks to all of you who took part in this year’s Proms première polls. As ever, there was a stark imbalance in the number of votes certain works received, but interestingly, whereas in previous years this tended to be focused on works performed earlier in the festival (since there…

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    Proms 2018: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 September 25, 2018 • 12:04
    September 25, 2018 • 12:04

    Many thanks to all of you for the comments you made and votes you cast during my coverage of the premières at the 2018 Proms season. A total of 1,467 votes were cast this year, an increase of 34% on last year’s ‘turnout’. Once again, there was something of an…

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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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    January 2017 listenings

    by 5:4 February 20, 2017 • 08:19
    February 20, 2017 • 08:19

    i remarked in passing recently about the disparity between music i’ve listened to and music i’ve (not) written about, so as an adjunct to my reviews of new releases, i’m going to offer a brief monthly insight into some of the more interesting and/or noteworthy things to have entered my…

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    HCMF 2016: afterthoughts and reflections

    by 5:4 November 29, 2016 • 09:38
    November 29, 2016 • 09:38

    I intended this to be part of yesterday’s final report, but as I’m still grappling with a virus at present I decided to tackle it separately. Looking back on HCMF 2016, it’s been another thoroughly enjoyable festival, not that I suspected it would be otherwise. The choice of Georg Friedrich…

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    Proms 2016: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 September 29, 2016 • 13:48
    September 29, 2016 • 13:48

    Many thanks to all of you who expressed your views on this year’s Proms premières, it’s always fascinating to compare my own responses with those of so many others, particularly when we disagree! Since closing the polls a few days ago, i’ve fed the results (938 votes) into what has…

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    Don’t believe the hype: some brief reflections on ‘greatness’

    by 5:4 July 20, 2016 • 12:28
    July 20, 2016 • 12:28

    i want to respond briefly to Philip Clark’s article ‘Where have the great composers gone?’, as i both agree and in some ways completely disagree with Clark’s unique blend of perspicacity and polemic. When i was an undergraduate, there were frequent references to and discussions about the notional ‘path’ of becoming…

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    Proms 2015: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 September 27, 2015 • 18:05
    September 27, 2015 • 18:05

    Many thanks for all of your votes on this year’s Proms premières. Having closed the polls yesterday, i’ve crunched the numbers a few different ways and here’s a summary of what you, my esteemed readers, had to say about this year’s offerings.

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    Proms 2014: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 October 5, 2014 • 21:09
    October 5, 2014 • 21:09

    Having closed the 5:4 polls last week, it’s time once again to assess how you voted on each of the 21 premières at this year’s Proms. Having pulled around and crunched the numbers from various angles, here’s a brief summary of what emerged. Worst New Work Roxanna Panufnik – Three Paths…

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    Hope without hope: Mark-Anthony Turnage – L’espoir (from Speranza, World Première)

    by 5:4 April 8, 2014 • 23:41
    April 8, 2014 • 23:41

    There’s an interesting small addendum to be made to my article a couple of days ago, reviewing recent CDs. i commented that LSO Live has released the world première performance of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s large-scale orchestral work Speranza, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding. However, what the…

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    Proms 2013: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 September 23, 2013 • 11:15
    September 23, 2013 • 11:15

    Now that a fortnight has passed since the deafening broohaha of the Last Night, it’s time to look at how you, esteemed readers, have voted in the 5:4 Proms polls. 545 votes were cast this year, and having crunched the results in a variety of ways, here’s a summary of…

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    Classical music: a game of tags

    by 5:4 April 17, 2013 • 11:14
    April 17, 2013 • 11:14

    i was ruefully amused yesterday to read an article by one of my esteemed blogospherical brothers-in-arms, Tim Rutherford-Johnson. Tim was bewailing his experiences of the use—or, more accurately, misuse—of tags applied to works of a classical persuasion on Spotify. On the one hand, i use Spotify so rarely that i…

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    Proms 2012: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 September 23, 2012 • 15:02
    September 23, 2012 • 15:02

    Two weeks have passed since the Proms 2012 season came to an end, so today i’ve closed the polls for each of the works premièred this year. This was the first year that i included polls, and in total 615 votes were cast; thanks to all of you who took…

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    Navigating the sounds of the cosmos

    by 5:4 August 7, 2012 • 13:44
    August 7, 2012 • 13:44

    It’s been with no little excitement that i’ve watched the Curiosity Rover landing on Mars this week. Astronomy has been a back-burner interest of mine since i was a boy and, not surprisingly, i’ve been especially fond of the sound recordings produced by NASA from the data received by Voyagers…

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    Loving/Collecting Music

    by 5:4 March 3, 2008 • 20:33
    March 3, 2008 • 20:33

    From about the age of 10, i was given £5 pocket money each month. And every month, i would walk to the record shop and buy a new album, which would always cost me £4.99. Since i could only afford one album, i would take a lot of time choosing,…

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    What’s In A Name? (Part Two)

    by 5:4 January 30, 2008 • 14:08
    January 30, 2008 • 14:08

    In my post Style and Idea: What’s In A Name?, i said that i’d been provoked to consider genres “and more besides”; here, then, is the more. Our determination to classify things – as a means of containing them, thereby reducing them and making them (or so we believe) more…

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    Style and Idea: What’s In A Name?

    by 5:4 January 20, 2008 • 20:49
    January 20, 2008 • 20:49

    A few days ago, i listened to an album described by its label as “ritual ambient”, which i found an intriguing idea for a genre; yesterday, i spent time with another release on the same label, listed as “ceramic IDM”. i’m not sure i can even begin to unpack quite…

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