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    HCMF 2018: Sciarrino: Carnaval, hcmf// mixtape

    by 5:4 November 25, 2018 • 23:11
    November 25, 2018 • 23:11

    The last couple of years have been good for one of the UK’s most impressive new music groups, Explore Ensemble. Two years ago, i first heard them at HCMF on ‘Shorts’ day, giving a gripping account of Gérard Grisey‘s Talea, and they returned to the festival last year to give a…

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    HCMF 2017: Explore Ensemble, Polwechsel + John Butcher + Klaus Lang, Thomas Lehn

    by 5:4 November 25, 2017 • 11:25
    November 25, 2017 • 11:25

    One of last year’s exciting new discoveries at HCMF was the London-based Explore Ensemble, whose performance of Gérard Grisey’s Talea on ‘shorts’ day was easily among its most memorable events. Fittingly, this year Explore was invited back to give a full concert, which only reinforced that first impression from 2016. The…

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    HCMF 2016: afterthoughts and reflections

    by 5:4 November 29, 2016 • 09:38
    November 29, 2016 • 09:38

    I intended this to be part of yesterday’s final report, but as I’m still grappling with a virus at present I decided to tackle it separately. Looking back on HCMF 2016, it’s been another thoroughly enjoyable festival, not that I suspected it would be otherwise. The choice of Georg Friedrich…

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    The Start of an Era: Bristol New Music 2014

    by 5:4 February 24, 2014 • 23:56
    February 24, 2014 • 23:56

    Ordinarily, finding yourself traipsing along cold, dark, damp streets from concert to concert of cutting edge music, you’d expect the time to be late autumn and the place to be Huddersfield. Except this time it was the streets and venues of Bristol that were the focus of attention, for the…

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