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    The Isolation Mixtapes : B

    by 5:4 April 13, 2020 • 09:22
    April 13, 2020 • 09:22

    Here’s the second in my new ongoing series of weekly mixtapes to aid with getting through this unsettling period of lockdown and isolation. This time, a tour through some of the very best things from 2010–2019 by artists beginning with the letter B; two tracks from each of those years,…

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    Dark Music Days 2019: Zoë Martlew

    by 5:4 February 6, 2019 • 14:00
    February 6, 2019 • 14:00

    One of the plagues that continues to afflict most contemporary music festivals is ‘première-itis’, an acute obsession with presenting loudly-trumpeted world premières at the expense of providing opportunities for second, third or indeed nth performances. It was a relief, therefore, that this year’s Dark Music Days (which was otherwise similarly…

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    New (Nordic) releases: Vilde&Inga, Nordic Affect, Trio Aristos, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    by 5:4 June 5, 2017 • 13:16
    June 5, 2017 • 13:16

    There’s been a number of very interesting new releases recently featuring composers and performers from the Nordic countries. At the most unconventional end of the spectrum are violinist Vilde Sandve Alnæs and double bassist Inga Margrete Aas, a Norwegian duo who perform free-improvised music together as Vilde&Inga. Their new album Silfr, released…

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    Mixtape #37 : Best Albums of 2016

    by 5:4 January 1, 2017 • 08:23
    January 1, 2017 • 08:23

    HAPPY NEW YEAR! i’m starting 2017 in the usual way, with a mixtape bringing together one track from each of the forty albums on my best of 2016 list. i’m sure posterity will come to regard last year as something of a trough in human history, but this mixtape does…

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    Best Albums of 2016 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 December 30, 2016 • 00:10
    December 30, 2016 • 00:10

    * Please note this list has how been superseded by the one on the Best Albums of the Years page * i’ve long wondered whether there’s any justification—or, indeed, any point—in making end of year lists, particularly when, as usual, there’s a pile of as yet unplayed discs staring down…

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    A telling contemporary engagement with archetypes: Bent Sørensen – Snowbells

    by 5:4 March 13, 2016 • 12:29
    March 13, 2016 • 12:29

    What leaps out immediately on Snowbells, a new collection of choral works by Bent Sørensen, and constantly throughout, is the composer’s deep, thoughtful engagement with intense emotion, particularly the themes of life, love and death. Words, and the layers of connotation and meaning encapsulated within them, are clearly not just…

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    HCMF 2013: BBC Singers

    by 5:4 November 16, 2013 • 19:50
    November 16, 2013 • 19:50

    Today’s second concert was back in St Paul’s Hall, featuring the BBC Singers conducted by Nicholas Kok, performing works by Charlotte Seither, Bent Sørensen and Cecilie Ore. Surprisingly, it’s an entire decade since the BBC Singers last appeared at HCMF; on the strength of this concert, one hopes they’ll be…

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    Proms 2010: Bent Sørensen – La mattina (Piano Concerto No. 2) (UK Première)

    by 5:4 August 27, 2010 • 21:41
    August 27, 2010 • 21:41

    This year’s Proms has already had a couple of concerto premières, and the third, from Bent Sørensen, is one for piano and orchestra. Inspiration for the work, La mattina (Piano Concerto No. 2) is in part connected to Mozart, and Sørensen has opted for an orchestra of like size (no…

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    Ensemble Exposé: Brian Ferneyhough – Incipits (UK Première) plus Davies, Xenakis, Barrett, Dillon and Sørensen

    by 5:4 June 6, 2008 • 21:15
    June 6, 2008 • 21:15

    Here’s a real treat for those who prefer their contemporary music to be at the more intellectually rewarding end of the continuum. It’s music from a concert given at the ICA in London by Ensemble Exposé (plus violist Garth Knox), under the direction of Roger Redgate, who also discusses the…

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