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    Best Albums of 2021 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 December 30, 2021 • 00:00
    December 30, 2021 • 00:00

    i’m really not a nostalgic person at all, but it recently occurred to me that when i created the first 5:4 Best Albums of the Year list, my reason for choosing to include 40 entries was due to the oh-so-many years as a teenager that i’d spent listening to the …

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    The Brandenburg Project

    by 5:4 June 7, 2021 • 11:21
    June 7, 2021 • 11:21

    Three years ago, the Proms festival featured the first complete performance of The Brandenburg Project, a large-scale undertaking by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, who commissioned six composers to write a work responding to one of J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, with the aim that they should ideally also use the …

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    Proms 2018: The Brandenburg Project

    by 5:4 August 14, 2018 • 15:05
    August 14, 2018 • 15:05

    The Proms wouldn’t be the Proms if it didn’t feature one of its favourite obsessions: contemporary music commissioned with the specific aim that it ‘responds’ to existing works in the repertoire. The most recent example of this is The Brandenburg Project, an idea dreamt up by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra …

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    Proms 2017: Anders Hillborg – Sirens (UK Première)

    by 5:4 July 30, 2017 • 19:00
    July 30, 2017 • 19:00

    It’s quite unusual to be sitting down to enjoy the Proms première of a piece you already know quite well. But that was the case with Anders Hillborg‘s Sirens, which received its first UK performance a couple of days ago by Swedish sopranos Ida Falk Winland and Hannah Holgersson with the BBC …

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    Proms 2017: pre-première questions with Anders Hillborg

    by 5:4 July 28, 2017 • 05:00
    July 28, 2017 • 05:00

    Despite being composed and first performed nearly six years ago, and also being released on CD in 2015, Swedish composer Anders Hillborg‘s Sirens, a large-scale work for two sopranos, chorus and orchestra, hasn’t yet been performed in the UK. Until, that is, this evening, when it finally receives its UK …

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    HCMF 2016: Trombone Unit Hannover, Klangforum Wien

    by 5:4 November 21, 2016 • 02:08
    November 21, 2016 • 02:08

    The palpable buzz surrounding events at this year’s HCMF featuring music by composer-in-residence Georg Friedrich Haas (of an order considerably greater than that of the previous few years) continued before and during yesterday’s morning concert given by Trombone Unit Hannover. This was no doubt due to the UK performance of …

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  • CD/Digital releases

    New releases: Anders Hillborg, Hans Abrahamsen

    by 5:4 March 19, 2016 • 13:16
    March 19, 2016 • 13:16

    Continuing with Scandinavian new releases, a new disc from Bis featuring four works by Anders Hillborg is a real treat. It’s a generalisation, of course, but the focus of Hillborg’s music tends to be on the surface, and this understandably polarises listeners. Usually, the successes of this approach come out …

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

    by 5:4 August 30, 2015 • 15:42
    August 30, 2015 • 15:42

    The latest spate of Proms premières have made for an interesting contrast in terms of abstract versus concrete ideas. At the former end of the continuum—where else would you find him?—was Anders Hillborg and his latest orchestral piece Beast Sampler; at the latter end was Raymond Yiu‘s Symphony, a large-scale …

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    Proms 2011: Anders Hillborg – Cold Heat (UK Première)

    by 5:4 August 31, 2011 • 06:19
    August 31, 2011 • 06:19

    Monday evening’s Prom brought one of the pieces i’ve most been looking forward to hear in this year’s season, the first London performance of Cold Heat by Swedish composer Anders Hillborg. Few composers in recent times have revivified the Straussian idea of the symphonic poem more effectively than Hillborg, although …

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