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    Bethan Morgan-Williams – In Kenopsia

    by 5:4 December 10, 2021 • 05:00
    December 10, 2021 • 05:00

    Behind today’s Advent Calendar door is a short electroacoustic work by Bethan Morgan-Williams. The unusual word in the work’s title originates from one of my favourite linguistical sources, the wonderful Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, where ‘kenopsia’ (presumably a blending of the Greek words ‘kenosis’, indicating an act of emptying or…

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    Cheltenham Music Festival 2018: Quartet Premières; Berkeley Ensemble; Juliana

    by 5:4 July 16, 2018 • 15:33
    July 16, 2018 • 15:33

    Last Wednesday at Cheltenham Music Festival saw the world premières of no fewer than four new string quartets, courtesy of the Ligeti Quartet. Interestingly, all of them were cast as single-movement structures, though in the case of his String Quartet No. 2, Michael Zev Gordon presented something akin to a swatch book,…

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