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Festivals Premières
Proms 2019: Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M. C. B. (World Première)

by 5:4 August 20, 2019 • 19:22

August 20, 2019 • 19:22

A week ago, the Proms saw the world première of a new work by no fewer than 14 composers. Conceived by conductor Martyn Brabbins as a 60th birthday present to himself, the piece is inspired by, and modelled on, the structure and character of Elgar’s Enigma Variations. For this new…

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Festivals Premières
Proms 2016: Anthony Payne – Of Land, Sea and Sky (World Première)

by 5:4 July 27, 2016 • 11:28

July 27, 2016 • 11:28

There were paradoxes at play throughout Anthony Payne‘s new work for choir and orchestra, Of Land, Sea and Sky, given its première at last night’s Prom by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Andrew Davis. Well, paradoxes is one word for them: inconsistencies and/or anachronisms would be another equally…

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