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    Amber Priestley – floors are flowers — take a few

    by 5:4 April 15, 2017 • 10:51
    April 15, 2017 • 10:51

    i’m ending this year’s Lent series with a beautifully weird little piece by USA-born, UK-based composer Amber Priestley. The work takes its title – floors are flowers — take a few – from an equally short poem by US poet Shel Silverstein, ‘Enter This Deserted House’: But please walk softly as…

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    Morton Feldman – Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety

    by 5:4 April 10, 2017 • 11:15
    April 10, 2017 • 11:15

    To begin the final week of my Lent Series, i’m turning to a curious little miniature by Morton Feldman. Composed in 1970, Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety is a work for a small, unusual ensemble of 2 flutes, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, celesta, bells, 2 cellos and 2 double basses.…

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    Dave Price – Twitcher

    by 5:4 April 3, 2017 • 15:46
    April 3, 2017 • 15:46

    The next miniature work in my Lent Series is something a little different from the norm. Dave Price uses an array of game calls and bird whistles in conjunction with a piccolo to create his taut, playful and at times downright hilarious three-minute Twitcher. Those of a prog rock disposition may…

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    Peter Maxwell Davies – Unbroken Circle

    by 5:4 March 27, 2017 • 15:10
    March 27, 2017 • 15:10

    The next of my Lent Series miniatures is Unbroken Circle, a four-minute piece for alto flute, bass clarinet, viola, cello and piano by Peter Maxwell Davies. It was composed in 1984, a year that would prove to be an anguished one for Max: his mother, Hilda, had a severe stroke…

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    Harrison Birtwistle – Double Hocket

    by 5:4 March 21, 2017 • 09:19
    March 21, 2017 • 09:19

    Brevity may well be the soul of wit, but the challenges it raises from the perspective of the listener can be considerable. Everything becomes ultra-compact: no sooner has an idea been presented then we’re on to another – or, more usually in this context, a different facet of the existing one…

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    Howard Skempton – Here’s the Tender Coming (World Première)

    by 5:4 March 16, 2017 • 20:14
    March 16, 2017 • 20:14

    Back to the Lent Series, and to a completely charming and surprisingly poignant little miniature by Howard Skempton. Here’s the Tender Coming is a Northumbrian folk tune, and Skempton’s arrangement of it dates from 2011, appropriately written for Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell plus the addition of a string quartet. Despite the cheeriness…

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    Marisa Hartanto – Rumble to the Past (World Première)

    by 5:4 March 8, 2017 • 14:34
    March 8, 2017 • 14:34

    For the next work in my Lent Series focusing on miniatures, i’m turning to Indonesian composer Marisa Hartanto, who studied composition as a postgrad at Royal Holloway. Her short orchestral work Rumble to the Past won the BBC’s Baroque Remixed postgraduate composing competition in 2012. The piece is a response…

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    György Kurtág – Clov’s last monologue (a fragment) (World Première)

    by 5:4 March 5, 2017 • 11:06
    March 5, 2017 • 11:06

    For about as long as many people can remember, Romanian composer György Kurtág has been working on his first opera, based on Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. It’s been announced, postponed, re-announced and re-postponed to the point where one begins to wonder if it will ever become a reality, but if all goes…

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    Javier Álvarez – Overture

    by 5:4 March 1, 2017 • 00:43
    March 1, 2017 • 00:43

    Today marks the start of Lent, and for this year’s Lent Series i’m turning to the world of the small: miniatures. i’ve written in the past with no little enthusiasm about ‘epic’ compositions, but there’s something equally remarkable about a piece of music that’s able to convey something cogent in…

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