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    Warsaw Autumn 2025 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 October 7, 2025 • 06:00
    October 7, 2025 • 06:00

    This year’s Warsaw Autumn festival didn’t so much have a theme as a keyword: “clearing”. Referencing Heidegger’s use of the term (lichtung), the idea was that it “symbolises a new stage, a new opening and chance, in both the social and individual dimension. The word carries the hope that we wish to …

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    Neglected symphonies: Elsa Barraine – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

    by 5:4 September 16, 2025 • 10:27
    September 16, 2025 • 10:27

    One of my biggest classical music bêtes noires is the way so much significant music is allowed to be forgotten, with concert programmers snoozing on their laurels as they serve up yet another reheated season of the same old, same old. That’s especially the case where symphonies – and, more …

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    Aggregate – new works for automated pipe organs

    by 5:4 August 15, 2025 • 16:29
    August 15, 2025 • 16:29

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    World New Music Days 2025, Portugal (Part 2)

    by 5:4 June 24, 2025 • 15:11
    June 24, 2025 • 15:11

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    World New Music Days 2025, Portugal (Part 1)

    by 5:4 June 15, 2025 • 08:15
    June 15, 2025 • 08:15

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    Musica Nova 2025 (Part 4)

    by 5:4 March 22, 2025 • 09:26
    March 22, 2025 • 09:26

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    Musica Nova 2025 (Part 2)

    by 5:4 March 7, 2025 • 10:21
    March 7, 2025 • 10:21

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    Best Albums of 2024 (Part 2)

    by 5:4 December 31, 2024 • 00:00
    December 31, 2024 • 00:00

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    AFEKT 2023 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 November 6, 2023 • 11:20
    November 6, 2023 • 11:20

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    Gérard Grisey – Mégalithes

    by 5:4 June 20, 2023 • 12:23
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    Éliane Radigue – Occam Delta XV

    by 5:4 May 12, 2023 • 10:42
    May 12, 2023 • 10:42

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    Forum Wallis 2023 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 March 16, 2023 • 09:34
    March 16, 2023 • 09:34

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    Dark Music Days 2023 (Part 3)

    by 5:4 February 11, 2023 • 19:10
    February 11, 2023 • 19:10

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    Maurice Ravel (orch. Colin Matthews) – Oiseaux tristes (World Première)

    by 5:4 December 23, 2022 • 05:00
    December 23, 2022 • 05:00

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    Pierre Boulez (orch. Schöllhorn) – Notations Nos. 2, 10 & 11; La treizième (UK Première)

    by 5:4 December 4, 2022 • 05:00
    December 4, 2022 • 05:00

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    Betsy Jolas – Just A Minute!

    by 5:4 December 1, 2022 • 05:00
    December 1, 2022 • 05:00

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    Michael Gielen conducts Messiaen, Szymanowski & Penderecki

    by 5:4 November 4, 2022 • 16:10
    November 4, 2022 • 16:10

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    Proms 2022: Betsy Jolas – bTunes (World Première)

    by 5:4 September 6, 2022 • 14:16
    September 6, 2022 • 14:16

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    BEAST FEaST 2022: Resonances (Part 2)

    by 5:4 July 10, 2022 • 11:41
    July 10, 2022 • 11:41

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    Borealis 2022 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 March 31, 2022 • 14:48
    March 31, 2022 • 14:48

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