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    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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    Proms 2017: Judith Weir – In the Land of Uz (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 22, 2017 • 12:16
    August 22, 2017 • 12:16

    As i mentioned in my recent essay for Sounds Like Now, the statistics for contemporary music by women at the 2017 Proms concerts are lamentable: four-fifths of the new music heard this year is by men. Judith Weir is therefore something of an exception – doubly so, as not only…

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    Cheltenham Music Festival 2017: Love Songs

    by 5:4 July 10, 2017 • 12:36
    July 10, 2017 • 12:36

    Last night saw the second concert of this year’s Cheltenham Music Festival to be almost completely devoted to contemporary music. i described the previous one, with E STuudio Youth Choir, as being “a mixed bag of confections”, and the same applies to this event, a piano recital titled ‘Love Songs’…

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    Cheltenham Music Festival 2016: A New Jerusalem

    by 5:4 July 15, 2016 • 10:47
    July 15, 2016 • 10:47

    Wednesday evening in Tewkesbury Abbey, in the company of Ex Cathedra conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore, was an encounter with a particular kind of British ubiquity. The music of Hubert Parry, Herbert Howells, Judith Weir and James MacMillan were brought together in an evening focusing on “A New Jerusalem”, four composers…

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    CBSO Centre, Birmingham: BCMG – Remembering the Future

    by 5:4 June 13, 2016 • 11:14
    June 13, 2016 • 11:14

    Both the title of last night’s BCMG concert, ‘Remembering the Future’, and its prevailing tone emphasised a looking back, and with good reason, as this was the final concert in Stephen and Jackie Newbould’s long tenure running the ensemble. Thankfully, that didn’t cause the evening to sag into mere nostalgia, focusing…

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    Proms 2014: Judith Weir – Day Break Shadows Flee (World Première); Zhou Long – Postures (European Première); John Adams – Saxophone Concerto (UK Première)

    by 5:4 September 7, 2014 • 16:02
    September 7, 2014 • 16:02

    The latest round of Proms premières got one thinking about the relationship between expectation/innovation and engagement. It was Judith Weir‘s new work that got this particular ball rolling around the mind. A composer already at the less adventurous end of the new music spectrum, in recent years her music has…

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    Seasonal favourites: Judith Weir – Illuminare, Jerusalem

    by 5:4 December 19, 2011 • 08:14
    December 19, 2011 • 08:14

    Despite being a time of year deeply entrenched in tradition (and not necessarily the worse for it), composers do from time to time bring a flash of innovation to Christmas. So, in the week leading up to the day itself, i’m going to explore a few of my seasonal favourites.…

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    Proms 2011: Judith Weir – Stars, Night, Music and Light (World Première)

    by 5:4 July 15, 2011 • 20:24
    July 15, 2011 • 20:24

    The 2011 Proms season commenced this evening with the world première of a new work from Judith Weir. Evocatively titled Stars, Night, Music and Light, Weir has drawn on three lines of text from the sixth stanza of George Herbert‘s poem ‘Man’, a poem that echoes the sentiments of Psalm…

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    Proms 2010: Weir, Musgrave, Northcott, Ferneyhough, Taverner, Harvey and Jackson

    by 5:4 September 5, 2010 • 23:56
    September 5, 2010 • 23:56

    The final Proms Saturday Matinee, two days ago, featured the BBC Singers, exploring a variety of contemporary works inspired by early music. The singers were joined for the occasion by the Arditti Quartet and members of Endymion, with David Hill presiding. The concert opened with Judith Weir‘s millennial composition All…

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