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    The Isolation Mixtapes : D

    by 5:4 April 27, 2020 • 09:23
    April 27, 2020 • 09:23

    Here’s the fourth in my weekly serious of Isolation Mixtapes, which will hopefully provide a distraction from the lockdown along with a large dose of celebration of great music from the last decade. As usual, i’ve allowed myself two tracks from each of the years 2010 to 2019, working through …

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  • FestivalsPremières

    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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    HCMF 2017: Polish Radio Choir, Karin Hellqvist

    by 5:4 November 20, 2017 • 16:26
    November 20, 2017 • 16:26

    For the first twenty minutes of the concert given by the Polish Radio Choir in Huddersfield Town Hall yesterday, i was forming the view that, though what we’d heard seemed at odds with his description, Dai Fujikura had nonetheless composed not only two of his best ever works, but better than …

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    HCMF 2015: Richard Uttley, United Instruments of Lucilin

    by 5:4 November 22, 2015 • 18:02
    November 22, 2015 • 18:02

    It’s perhaps a little early, following just two concerts yesterday evening, to start describing the characteristics that typify this year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. But based on these, and considering the featured composer is Jürg Frey, it would seem that ‘delicacy’ is going to be one of this year’s prevailing …

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  • Lent Series

    Dai Fujikura – Recorder Concerto

    by 5:4 March 6, 2015 • 21:04
    March 6, 2015 • 21:04

    A general shift in register now, from low to high, and to a pair of concertos using a reduced orchestra comprising just strings. Dai Fujikura seems to have written his Recorder Concerto despite himself, describing his initial view of the instrument as a pretty negative one. What makes the piece …

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    HCMF 2013: Shorts

    by 5:4 November 19, 2013 • 10:38
    November 19, 2013 • 10:38

    There’s a curious phenomenon that seems to strike people the longer they spend at HCMF: a cross between regret and guilt at the events they’re not attending. i periodically suffer from it myself, and never more so than on their annual ‘Shorts’ day, which took place yesterday. Fifteen small- and …

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    Mixtape #25 : Best Albums of 2012

    by 5:4 January 1, 2013 • 09:05
    January 1, 2013 • 09:05

    HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL! Today marks 5:4‘s fifth anniversary, and so i’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who regularly read, share and respond to the articles and music explored here. Since 2008, the blog has grown from being an occasional hobby (reading the …

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  • Best of the YearCD/Digital releases

    Best Albums of 2012 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 December 30, 2012 • 00:21
    December 30, 2012 • 00:21

    * Please note this list has how been superseded by the one on the Best Albums of the Years page * This is a list surrounded by other lists leading to other lists, lists … that explain everything by being gateways into worlds of sound, feeling and information… …the love …

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  • CD/Digital releases

    Attraction & resistance: NMC Debut Discs – music by Huw Watkins, Dai Fujikura and Sam Hayden

    by 5:4 July 9, 2012 • 14:21
    July 9, 2012 • 14:21

    i don’t think it’s hyperbole to describe NMC Recordings as one of the bastions of contemporary music in the UK. For as long as i’ve been listening to new music (more than two decades now), NMC’s output has been a dependable point of continuity, and many of their releases have …

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