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    Maurice Ravel (arr. Boulez) – Frontispice (UK Première)

    by 5:4 December 18, 2021 • 05:00
    December 18, 2021 • 05:00

    Today’s Advent Calendar work is another fascinating miniature oddity. Maurice Ravel composed Frontispice – his shortest work, consisting of just 15 bars – in June 1918. It was commissioned by the writer and poet Ricciotto Canudo, intended to act as a preface to Canudo’s S.P. 503, Le Poème du Vardar,…

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    Aphex Twin (arr. Patrick Nunn) – Nannou (World Première)

    by 5:4 December 11, 2021 • 05:00
    December 11, 2021 • 05:00

    Though at first glance the music of Aphex Twin might not seem a likely subject for instrumental arrangement, the fact is that his work has attracted this treatment on a number of occasions, usually with surprising success. As far back as 1995, Philip Glass created an outstanding orchestration of the…

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    LUX:NM – Dark Lux

    by 5:4 July 6, 2021 • 14:31
    July 6, 2021 • 14:31

    Not so long ago i revisited an old favourite of mine, William Walton’s Façade, a work that takes sublimity and absurdity and wonderfully manages to make them gel – or, at least, engage in a weirdly (un)comfortable coexistence. Both the character and the attitude of Façade have been brought instantly…

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    Harrison Birtwistle – Semper Dowland, semper dolens (World Première)

    by 5:4 March 26, 2020 • 05:00
    March 26, 2020 • 05:00

    Last autumn, when i began thinking about this Lent Series, one of the first works i intended to include was by Harrison Birtwistle, his opera The Last Supper. However, in light of the events that have transpired in the last couple of months, and which now overshadow everything, i’m instead…

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  • CD/Digital releasesFree musicThematic series

    Press Charges

    by 5:4 January 31, 2018 • 14:41
    January 31, 2018 • 14:41

    There’s so much i could write about in this series looking at free internet music, that i think it’ll be something i’ll have to return to regularly from now on. For the time being, though, i’m ending this series with an album that’s one of the most imaginative and effective…

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    Proms 2011: Jonny Greenwood/Robert Ziegler – Norwegian Wood – Suite & Purcell; Joby Talbot – Chacony in G minor (World Premières)

    by 5:4 August 15, 2011 • 11:49
    August 15, 2011 • 11:49

    The most recent premières at this year’s Proms have been a pair of arrangements, the first, a suite formed by Robert Ziegler from Jonny Greenwood‘s score to the film Norwegian Wood, the second, a new rendition of Henry Purcell‘s Chacony in G minor, by Joby Talbot. Greenwood’s music was performed…

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