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    HCMF revisited: Laurence Crane – Movement for 10 musicians

    by 5:4 November 16, 2017 • 06:00
    November 16, 2017 • 06:00

    One of the awkward aspects of attending the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival arises from the fact that, when choosing which concerts to attend, there’s an unavoidable fear that one will inevitably miss something fantastically memorable and/or stunningly ground-breaking. The next piece in my HCMF revisitings is a case in point,…

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    Gigs, gigs, gigs: ddmmyy, HCMF

    by 5:4 November 7, 2014 • 21:07
    November 7, 2014 • 21:07

    It’s November, and i’ll initially skip over the elephant in the month to flag up a very interesting concert series going on in Manchester. Curated by undergrad composer Jack Sheen, it goes by the Excel spreadsheet-friendly title ddmmyy, seeking to make each event literally that, an event, conceived and customised…

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    HCMF 2013 revisited: James Clarke – 2013-V (World Première)

    by 5:4 January 31, 2014 • 00:34
    January 31, 2014 • 00:34

    If there’s one thing that unites almost the entirety of the contemporary music spectrum, it’s a fondness for allusive titles. There isn’t anything inherently wrong with that, of course, but it can have the unfortunate side effect of encouraging too many listeners to switch off a portion of their critical…

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    HCMF 2013 revisited: Raphaël Cendo – Rokh I (UK Première)

    by 5:4 January 20, 2014 • 22:26
    January 20, 2014 • 22:26

    One of the most memorable performances at HCMF 2013 arose out of what appeared beforehand to be pretty restricted forces: bass flute, violin, cello and prepared piano, members of the French Ensemble Linea. Yet in Rokh I, the first of a three-part, 30-minute cycle, Raphaël Cendo enables this quartet to…

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    HCMF 2013 revisited: Cecilie Ore – Come to the Edge! (World Première)

    by 5:4 January 15, 2014 • 22:51
    January 15, 2014 • 22:51

    Memories and afterthoughts of the exhilarating and, at times, revelatory experiences from HCMF 2013 haven’t really stopped swirling around my mind, so i’m going to begin 2014 by revisiting some of the most interesting highlights, starting with a world première given by the BBC Singers, directed by Nicolas Kok. Even…

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    HCMF 2013: John Zorn day

    by 5:4 November 22, 2013 • 23:59
    November 22, 2013 • 23:59

    How do you solve a problem like John Zorn? How do you reconcile the disparate works of a composer equally at home in the worlds of (among others) free jazz, avant garde experimentalism, choral, noise rock, easy listening and hardcore, and whose music moves freely, even wilfully, between these worlds…

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    HCMF 2013: n s m b l

    by 5:4 November 21, 2013 • 19:51
    November 21, 2013 • 19:51

    All good noise reduction filters have an option to invert their output, effectively delivering only the removed audio information, mainly hiss and microscopic blurps, along with thin slivers of the primary audio material, little more than the most anaemic of glimpses, hinting at what lies on the other side. These…

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    HCMF 2013: Quatuor Diotima / edges ensemble

    by 5:4 November 20, 2013 • 14:21
    November 20, 2013 • 14:21

    St Paul’s Hall saw the UK première of no less than two major works last night: one, a large-scale cycle, the other, a full-blown epic. i want to discuss them together, not because they are in any way connected, but because hearing them one after the other brought about interesting…

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    HCMF 2013: Séverine Ballon

    by 5:4 November 19, 2013 • 16:30
    November 19, 2013 • 16:30

    Today’s first concert was given by French cellist Séverine Ballon. Her recital comprised UK premières by Hèctor Parra and Mauro Lanza and a world première by Rebecca Saunders, together with a classic of the repertoire, James Dillon‘s Parjanya-Vata, composed in 1981. It was especially good to hear this again; it’s…

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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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    HCMF 2013: Quatuor Diotima

    by 5:4 November 18, 2013 • 01:05
    November 18, 2013 • 01:05

    This morning saw Brian Ferneyhough back at St Paul’s Hall, his music this time being performed by the outstanding Quatuor Diotima, alongside works by Gérard Pesson, Miroslav Srnka and György Ligeti. Ligeti’s 1968 String Quartet No. 2 came last in the concert, but i mention it first because—as Ligeti’s music always…

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    HCMF 2013: Ensemble Linea + Irvine Arditti

    by 5:4 November 17, 2013 • 20:56
    November 17, 2013 • 20:56

    The final concert yesterday took place, once again, in St Paul’s Hall, featuring Ensemble Linea, conducted by Jean-Philippe Wurtz. It featured three new works, by Brian Ferneyhough, Raphaël Cendo and James Clarke. Ferneyhough and Clarke appear at first to come from different points of origin; Ferneyhough states that he cannot…

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    HCMF 2013: London Sinfonietta

    by 5:4 November 16, 2013 • 23:03
    November 16, 2013 • 23:03

    Truth be told, it isn’t often i find myself lost for words. About 40 minutes ago, the London Sinfonietta finished their performance of the UK première of Georg Friedrich Haas‘ in vain, and i’m still trying to force some coherence about the experience. A few weeks back, i procured a…

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    HCMF 2013: BBC Singers

    by 5:4 November 16, 2013 • 19:50
    November 16, 2013 • 19:50

    Today’s second concert was back in St Paul’s Hall, featuring the BBC Singers conducted by Nicholas Kok, performing works by Charlotte Seither, Bent Sørensen and Cecilie Ore. Surprisingly, it’s an entire decade since the BBC Singers last appeared at HCMF; on the strength of this concert, one hopes they’ll be…

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    HCMF 2013: Red Note Ensemble

    by 5:4 November 16, 2013 • 19:06
    November 16, 2013 • 19:06

    This year’s pilgrimage to HCMF began, as it always seems to, at St Paul’s Hall, for a concert given this afternoon by Scotland’s Red Note Ensemble, directed by Garry Walker. They performed three works, something old(-ish), something new(-ish) and something entirely new. It was the entirely new piece, David Fennessy‘s…

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    Gigs, gigs, gigs

    by 5:4 November 9, 2013 • 12:59
    November 9, 2013 • 12:59

    There are some very interesting live events looming between the doorstep and the horizon. Most imminently, New Dots—an excellent initiative designed to foster collaborative composer/ensemble relationships—will be presenting the next instalment in their ongoing ‘Sounds of the New’ series at the Forge in Camden next Thursday (14th). This time it’ll…

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