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    Gérard Grisey – Mégalithes

    by 5:4 June 20, 2023 • 12:23
    June 20, 2023 • 12:23 1 minutes read

    For much of its life, Gérard Grisey‘s Mégalithes has languished in obscurity. A work for 15 brass instruments composed in 1969 when Grisey was 23, the work was essentially forgotten, perhaps due to a lack of interest on Grisey’s part (due to his subsequent focus on spectralism) and short memories …

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    The 10 Symphonies of Erkki-Sven Tüür – Part 4: Symphony No. 10 ‘ÆRIS’

    by 5:4 October 16, 2022 • 05:00
    October 16, 2022 • 05:00 2 minutes read

    This text is an expanded version of the article originally published (in Estonian translation) by Sirp, 16 September 2022. Looking back through Erkki-Sven Tüür’s first nine symphonies, they exhibit a great deal of consistency, primarily with regard to the use of contrasting musical ideas, often presented as bold juxtapositions, sometimes …

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    Borealis 2022 (Part 2)

    by 5:4 April 2, 2022 • 12:27
    April 2, 2022 • 12:27 2 minutes read

    i wrote in Part 1 about the warm, inviting and relaxing atmosphere that pervaded each of the concerts at Borealis 2022. Establishing this kind of environment for audiences is vital, for two important reasons. First, because any festival that claims itself to be, as Borealis explicitly does, “for experimental music” …

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  • Lent Series

    Gavin Higgins – Sadly Now the Throstle Sings

    by 5:4 March 6, 2022 • 05:00
    March 6, 2022 • 05:00 1 minutes read

    For the next work in this year’s Lent Series, i’m turning to the uniquely haunting melancholy sound of the brass band. In 2014, i wrote about Gavin Higgins‘ Three Broken Love Songs, and his more recent work Sadly Now the Throstle Sings explores the same subject matter. The title comes …

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    Gérard Grisey – Mégalithes (UK Première)

    by 5:4 June 7, 2014 • 11:38
    June 7, 2014 • 11:38 1 minutes read

    In the last few years i’ve written about a number of pieces that languished ignored and unplayed for decades, and earlier this year another such work received its first UK performance, which at the time, as far as anyone could tell, was believed to be only the second time it …

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  • FestivalsPremières

    Proms 2013: Diana Burrell – Blaze; Edward Cowie – Earth Music I – The Great Barrier Reef (World Premières)

    by 5:4 August 10, 2013 • 11:52
    August 10, 2013 • 11:52 1 minutes read

    Last Monday saw a world première at each of the day’s Prom concerts. Having recently returned from Norway myself, the afternoon concert in Cadogan Hall was especially welcome, featuring the Norwegian brass group tenThing, led by Tine Thing Helseth; for them Diana Burrell had composed a new work, Blaze. The …

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    Proms 2012: Gavin Higgins – Der Aufstand; Gavin Bryars – After the Underworlds (World Premières)

    by 5:4 August 25, 2012 • 10:33
    August 25, 2012 • 10:33 1 minutes read

    Almost two weeks ago, the Royal Albert Hall was filled with the timbrally distinctive strains of Great Britain’s National Youth Wind Orchestra and National Youth Brass Band. From a new music perspective, the concert seemed dominated by pairs: two orchestras and two conductors (James Gourlay and Bramwell Tovey), performing world …

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    Proms 2010: Stephen Montague – Wilful Chants (World Première) plus Takemitsu

    by 5:4 August 22, 2010 • 11:29
    August 22, 2010 • 11:29 2 minutes read

    A world première from Stephen Montague is always an exciting prospect; while hardly an avant-garde figure, he’s highly unpredictable, and one imagines neither the BBC nor the audience could have envisaged what Montague would ultimately present them with in his new work Wilful Chants, given its first performance by the …

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