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  • 20th CenturyCD/Digital releases

    Michael Gielen Edition Vol. 10: Music after 1945

    by 5:4 February 18, 2022 • 13:21
    February 18, 2022 • 13:21

    i’m really not a conductor fanboy. Composers are always getting me excited; performers too, from time to time; but conductors, in general, not so much. There are some special cases: Bernard Haitink and Riccardo Chailly have both stunned me on countless occasions; i’ve always had a lot of time for …

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    Mixtape #53 : Best Albums of 2018

    by 5:4 January 1, 2019 • 10:26
    January 1, 2019 • 10:26

    Happy New Year everyone! Many thanks to all of you who have read, followed, commented, shared, promoted and otherwise supported the blog during the previous year, most especially to my beloved band of Patrons. i’m starting 2019 in the usual way, with a new mixtape featuring something from each of the …

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    Best Albums of 2018 (Part 2)

    by 5:4 December 31, 2018 • 00:00
    December 31, 2018 • 00:00

    i said yesterday how 2018 had been a very good year – just how good is encapsulated in these, the best of the best of the year’s albums, each one of which will do sublimely wonderful things to your ears.

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  • 20th CenturyCD/Digital releases

    all that dust: music by Morton Feldman, Matthew Shlomowitz, Séverine Ballon, Milton Babbitt and Luigi Nono

    by 5:4 October 12, 2018 • 11:57
    October 12, 2018 • 11:57

    The launching of a new label devoted to contemporary music is something to celebrate, and the newest kid on the block is all that dust, the brainchild of composer Newton Armstrong, soprano Juliet Fraser and pianist Mark Knoop. The label’s first five releases have recently appeared, and there are a …

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  • ConcertsPremières

    HCMF 2017: Red Note Ensemble, Metal Machine Music, Aeolian

    by 5:4 November 18, 2017 • 13:39
    November 18, 2017 • 13:39

    Here we go again (deep breath)… The opening concert of the 40th edition of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival immediately gave one pause for thought. What it wasn’t was a conventional wallop, a smack around the ears to wake us up out of our complacency, such as the one given …

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  • Concerts

    Recognition, raw ambition and raw power: Alba New Music 2017

    by 5:4 October 13, 2017 • 12:51
    October 13, 2017 • 12:51

    Last weekend brought the welcome return of Alba New Music, Edinburgh’s nascent new music festival. Having got the ball rolling with a bang last year, the 2017 festival as a whole felt more focused, in part due to deliberately having something of a thematic thread running through it. With an emphasis …

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  • Lent Series

    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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    New releases: Morton Feldman, Jonty Harrison, Chaya Czernowin

    by 5:4 December 4, 2016 • 16:11
    December 4, 2016 • 16:11

    It’s been good to get back to the plethora of new releases that have have found their way to my door in recent weeks and months. While i don’t like to make spurious connections between disparate pieces of music, i’ve been fascinated at the way various composers explore the interplay …

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  • CD/Digital releases

    New releases: Stefan Fraunberger, Michael Moser, Morton Feldman, John Wall

    by 5:4 July 21, 2016 • 11:53
    July 21, 2016 • 11:53

    Easily the most sonically remarkable new release to have passed through the jukebox in the last month or so is Quellgeister #2 ‘Wurmloch’ by the Austrian sound artist Stefan Fraunberger. This ongoing series of works (#1 came out two years ago, #3 is in progress) focuses on what Fraunberger summarises …

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  • Miscellaneous

    HCMF 2014 revisited: Morton Feldman – Piano Four Hands

    by 5:4 November 15, 2015 • 11:49
    November 15, 2015 • 11:49

    Not everything performed at HCMF is brand new, yet there are occasions when it feels as though one’s hearing a familiar piece for the first time. This happened last year with Morton Feldman‘s Piano Four Hands, a work that dates back over half a century, composed in 1958. One of …

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  • ConcertsFestivalsPremières

    HCMF 2014: Shorts, Feldman’s Pianos, asamisimasa

    by 5:4 November 26, 2014 • 00:42
    November 26, 2014 • 00:42

    Yesterday was HCMF’s annual day of ‘Shorts’, concerts of between 20 and 40 minutes, affording the opportunity to hear an exceptionally diverse range of music. Taken as a whole, it’s a cross between an Aladdin’s cave and one of those machines with the grappling hook that you find in amusement …

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  • 20th CenturyPremières

    Morton Feldman – The Swallows of Salangan (European Première)

    by 5:4 June 21, 2014 • 19:19
    June 21, 2014 • 19:19

    One of the most beguiling and enigmatic premières i’ve encountered in recent times took place at Birmingham’s Frontiers Festival in March, heard for the first time outside the USA no fewer than 54 years after its composition. There doesn’t seem to be any good reason for this considerable feat of …

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  • Lent Series

    Morton Feldman – Bass Clarinet and Percussion

    by 5:4 March 28, 2012 • 20:50
    March 28, 2012 • 20:50

    As Lent has now entered Passiontide, it’s time to crank things up a notch, so the next piece in my Lent series is by one of the great masters of compositional discipline and restraint, Morton Feldman. There aren’t many composers about whom one can say that they’re able to tap …

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  • Festivals

    Proms 2010: Cage, Cardew, Skempton and Feldman

    by 5:4 August 27, 2010 • 18:09
    August 27, 2010 • 18:09

    A few hours after the bizarre final notes of Arvo Pärt’s Symphony No. 4 had faded away, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ilan Volkov came to the Royal Albert Hall to present the Proms with a late-night performance of rather more experimental fare. They began with one of …

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