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    Best Albums of 2021 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 December 30, 2021 • 00:00
    December 30, 2021 • 00:00

    i’m really not a nostalgic person at all, but it recently occurred to me that when i created the first 5:4 Best Albums of the Year list, my reason for choosing to include 40 entries was due to the oh-so-many years as a teenager that i’d spent listening to the…

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    The Brandenburg Project

    by 5:4 June 7, 2021 • 11:21
    June 7, 2021 • 11:21

    Three years ago, the Proms festival featured the first complete performance of The Brandenburg Project, a large-scale undertaking by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, who commissioned six composers to write a work responding to one of J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, with the aim that they should ideally also use the…

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    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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    St Mary’s Church, Penzance: Kevos – Old Kings in Exile

    by 5:4 June 4, 2019 • 13:22
    June 4, 2019 • 13:22

    Last weekend i made a pilgrimage to the far south-west of England to catch the latest concert given by (as far as i can tell) Cornwall’s one and only contemporary music ensemble, Kevos. The title of the concert, named after one of the works being performed, Old Kings in Exile,…

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    Proms 2018: The Brandenburg Project

    by 5:4 August 14, 2018 • 15:05
    August 14, 2018 • 15:05

    The Proms wouldn’t be the Proms if it didn’t feature one of its favourite obsessions: contemporary music commissioned with the specific aim that it ‘responds’ to existing works in the repertoire. The most recent example of this is The Brandenburg Project, an idea dreamt up by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra…

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    Brett Dean – Fire Music (UK Première)

    by 5:4 January 26, 2017 • 21:03
    January 26, 2017 • 21:03

    Today is Australia Day, so i’m marking the occasion with an orchestral work by one of the country’s most well-known composers, Brett Dean. Fire Music was composed in 2011 as a response to the disastrous ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires that spread across Victoria in February 2009. At least, that was the…

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    Brett Dean – The Siduri Dances (World Première)

    by 5:4 March 12, 2015 • 21:16
    March 12, 2015 • 21:16

    From the recorder to the flute, and a typically dramatic concerto for the instrument by Australian composer Brett Dean. Composed in 2007, The Siduri Dances, for flute and string orchestra, began life three years earlier in Dean’s work for solo flute Demons. The inspirational scope here is broader, drawing on…

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    Proms 2014: Brett Dean – Electric Preludes; Bernard Rands – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (UK Premières); Benedict Mason – Meld (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 24, 2014 • 14:19
    August 24, 2014 • 14:19

    New works at the Proms regularly come in the form of concertos, violin and piano continuing to be represented most. The planned performance of Luca Francesconi’s Duende – The Dark Notes (a work i’d been very much looking forward to) on 7 August was unfortunately cancelled due to soloist Leila…

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    Proms 2010: Brett Dean – Amphitheatre (London Première)

    by 5:4 July 30, 2010 • 20:01
    July 30, 2010 • 20:01

    Tonight’s Prom concert opened with another London première, Amphitheatre by the Australian composer Brett Dean, who won last year’s prestigious Grawemeyer Prize. The work was composed a decade ago, and appropriately enough was presented this evening by the Australian Youth Orchestra, conducted by the effervescent Mark Elder. The clarity of…

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