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    Proms 2023: the premières (Part 1)

    by 5:4 July 29, 2023 • 13:07
    July 29, 2023 • 13:07

    Back in April, when i summarised the new music featured at this year’s Proms, i mentioned that the time might have come for me to finally give up trying to find some enthusiasm for its safe, unimaginative offerings. The 2023 season has been up and running for a couple of …

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  • Seasonal

    Helen Grime – To see the summer sky

    by 5:4 September 21, 2021 • 11:14
    September 21, 2021 • 11:14

    What music “means” – to the composer, and to the listener – is always a fluid, unpredictable thing, and it’s debatable to what extent we have much control over it. For the last few years, as summer has drawn to a close i’ve found myself listening to a short work …

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  • Mixtapes

    Mixtape #44 : Spring

    by 5:4 April 3, 2018 • 20:35
    April 3, 2018 • 20:35

    For my April mixtape, i’ve gone for a seasonal theme, exploring music that references and/or alludes to aspects of spring. While all the seasons are, by their nature, in a continual state of flux, i’ve personally always tended to think of spring and autumn as being ‘transitional’, more obviously progressing …

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    Proms 2016: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 September 29, 2016 • 13:48
    September 29, 2016 • 13:48

    Many thanks to all of you who expressed your views on this year’s Proms premières, it’s always fascinating to compare my own responses with those of so many others, particularly when we disagree! Since closing the polls a few days ago, i’ve fed the results (938 votes) into what has …

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    Proms 2016: Helen Grime – Two Eardley Pictures (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 12, 2016 • 16:32
    August 12, 2016 • 16:32

    A pair of paintings by Scottish artist Joan Eardley constitute the starting point of Helen Grime‘s new two-part work, premièred last week at the Proms, Two Eardley Pictures. The paintings are of the same place, the Scottish coastal village of Catterline (where Eardley lived and worked), painted from similar but subtly different viewpoints, …

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    New releases: ensemble/orchestral

    by 5:4 October 20, 2014 • 11:40
    October 20, 2014 • 11:40

    The majority of new releases to have come my way recently have featured music for ensemble and/or orchestral forces, each disc of which is usually devoted to the work of a single composer. The opportunity to scrutinise an individual’s work in great depth at times turns out to be something …

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  • Premières

    Helen Grime – Near Midnight (World Première)

    by 5:4 June 4, 2013 • 12:09
    June 4, 2013 • 12:09

    At last year’s Proms, Helen Grime’s focus was on the night; her latest orchestral work—the first in her rôle as Associate Composer to the Hallé Orchestra—continues that theme, in part taking its inspiration from a poem by D. H. Lawrence, title ‘Week-night service’, which begins thus: The five old bells …

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    Proms 2012: Helen Grime – Night Songs (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 28, 2012 • 10:47
    August 28, 2012 • 10:47

    Partway through last Saturday’s Proms world première of Night Songs, the new work from Helen Grime, conductor Oliver Knussen dropped his glasses. To listen to the performance, one would hardly have noticed; yet, at the end, Knussen announced the mishap to the audience and remarked how he thought it had …

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