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    Proms 2012: Fung Lam – Endless Forms (World Première)

    by 5:4 July 18, 2012 • 19:53
    July 18, 2012 • 19:53

    The latest work to be premièred at the Proms was Endless Forms, by a composer new to me, Fung Lam, born in Hong Kong but based in the UK for the last fifteen years. It was performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo who had replaced an …

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    Proms 2012: Kaija Saariaho – Laterna magica (UK Première)

    by 5:4 July 17, 2012 • 21:48
    July 17, 2012 • 21:48

    The first UK performance of Kaija Saariaho‘s 2008 work Laterna magica took place at tonight’s Prom concert in decidedly sumptuous company, Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra and Four Last Songs on one side, Sibelius’ Seventh Symphony on the other. It was a superbly-judged juxtaposition; while Saariaho’s music occupies places hard to …

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    Proms 2012: Mark-Anthony Turnage – Canon Fever (World Première)

    by 5:4 July 13, 2012 • 19:43
    July 13, 2012 • 19:43

    The 2012 Proms season was launched this evening with the world première of a new work from Mark-Anthony Turnage. Titled Canon Fever, the piece is an unabashed concert-opener, as Turnage explains: What constitutes a good concert opener? […] The music is irreverent; it doesn’t behave itself, it wakes the audience …

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    Symphony Hall, Birmingham: Jonathan Harvey – Weltethos (UK Première)

    by 5:4 June 22, 2012 • 21:55
    June 22, 2012 • 21:55

    Yesterday evening, in Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, Jonathan Harvey‘s large-scale new work for choir and orchestra, Weltethos, was given its first UK performance. The opening event of Birmingham’s London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, when one considers the legacy and reputation of Harvey together with the combined forces of over 300 performers – …

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    Thomas Adès – Polaris (UK Première)

    by 5:4 February 17, 2012 • 22:18
    February 17, 2012 • 22:18

    At the Barbican this evening, Thomas Adès‘ latest orchestral work, Polaris, was given its UK première by the New York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert. It’s fortunate indeed that Adès has left behind the ludicrously lavish plaudits that were rained down on him in a ceaseless golden shower throughout the mid- …

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    James Dillon – Nine Rivers (World Première) – 8. Introitus

    by 5:4 November 5, 2011 • 11:31
    November 5, 2011 • 11:31

    As éileadh sguaibe reaches its conclusion, the electronics seem to catch hold of the percussion; however, a glance at the score of Nine Rivers‘ eighth piece, Introitus, reveals that it is, in fact, its own tape part overlapping the final minute of éileadh. Having been more-or-less dormant for the last …

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    Proms 2011: Peter Maxwell Davies – Musica benevolens (World Première)

    by 5:4 September 25, 2011 • 19:54
    September 25, 2011 • 19:54

    The 2011 Proms season began with a première, and the last night began with one too, a concert-raiser from Master of the Queen’s Music Peter Maxwell Davies titled Musica benevolens, the title of which tips the hat at the work’s commissioners, the Musicians Benevolent Fund. It was performed by the …

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    Proms 2011: Anders Hillborg – Cold Heat (UK Première)

    by 5:4 August 31, 2011 • 06:19
    August 31, 2011 • 06:19

    Monday evening’s Prom brought one of the pieces i’ve most been looking forward to hear in this year’s season, the first London performance of Cold Heat by Swedish composer Anders Hillborg. Few composers in recent times have revivified the Straussian idea of the symphonic poem more effectively than Hillborg, although …

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    Proms 2011: Colin Matthews – No Man’s Land (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 23, 2011 • 21:14
    August 23, 2011 • 21:14

    Sunday night’s Prom brought the world première of a new work from Faber’s finest, Colin Matthews: No Man’s Land for tenor and baritone soli and orchestra. Commissioned by Richard Hickox immediately prior to his death in 2008, it was presented by the orchestra Hickox himself formed 40 years ago, the …

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    Proms 2011: Jonny Greenwood/Robert Ziegler – Norwegian Wood – Suite & Purcell; Joby Talbot – Chacony in G minor (World Premières)

    by 5:4 August 15, 2011 • 11:49
    August 15, 2011 • 11:49

    The most recent premières at this year’s Proms have been a pair of arrangements, the first, a suite formed by Robert Ziegler from Jonny Greenwood‘s score to the film Norwegian Wood, the second, a new rendition of Henry Purcell‘s Chacony in G minor, by Joby Talbot. Greenwood’s music was performed …

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    Proms 2011: Robin Holloway – Fifth Concerto for Orchestra (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 4, 2011 • 22:02
    August 4, 2011 • 22:02

    After a few days’ break, new music returned to the Proms this evening with the world première of Robin Holloway‘s Fifth Concerto for Orchestra, played by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Donald Runnicles. His previous quartet of orchestral concerti have been diverse, making it difficult to predict with …

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    Proms 2011: Pascal Dusapin – Morning in Long Island (UK Première)

    by 5:4 July 19, 2011 • 20:22
    July 19, 2011 • 20:22

    The music of Pascal Dusapin is being featured twice at this year’s Proms. The first piece, Morning in Long Island, was given its UK première yesterday evening, by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, directed by Myung-Whun Chung. It’s not exactly the kind of appellation one would immediately associate with …

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    Proms 2011: Havergal Brian – Symphony No. 1 ‘Gothic’

    by 5:4 July 18, 2011 • 12:12
    July 18, 2011 • 12:12

    Rarely have i felt the need to prepare so thoroughly before a concert as i did prior to yesterday evening’s Prom performance of Havergal Brian‘s Symphony No. 1 ‘Gothic’. Books were re-read, CDs were re-listened to, and i even re-visited the writings of John Ruskin, who wrote with such authority …

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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 2008: Steven Stucky – Rhapsodies (World Première)

    by 5:4 July 8, 2011 • 21:32
    July 8, 2011 • 21:32

    In seven days’ time, the 2011 Proms season will be upon us, bringing with it a welter of new music. This year’s season promises no fewer than 12 world premières and eight UK premières, plus four ludicrously-titled “London premières”; once again, they’ll all be featured on 5:4, alongside one or …

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    Barbican, London: Unsuk Chin – Total Immersion

    by 5:4 April 10, 2011 • 15:39
    April 10, 2011 • 15:39

    Yesterday was a long day, spent in the company of the music of Unsuk Chin, the latest composer to be featured in the Barbican’s ongoing Total Immersion series. In some ways, it feels like Chin’s music has been around forever—or, at least, for the last 20 years, since Acrostic-Wordplay first …

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    Gary Carpenter – Fred & Ginger (World Première)

    by 5:4 March 16, 2011 • 21:17
    March 16, 2011 • 21:17

    Radio 3 has featured a glut of premières recently, from a mixture of established and less well-known names. One such new name (to me, at least) is Gary Carpenter, whose new orchestral piece Fred and Ginger received its first performance on 17 February, broadcast a week later. A little over …

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    Schnittke Week – Hommage à Edvard Grieg, Symphony No. 8 (UK Première), Concerto Grosso No. 2 & (K)ein Sommernachtstraum

    by 5:4 November 26, 2010 • 07:53
    November 26, 2010 • 07:53

    The fifth and final concert featured in this Schnittke Week was broadcast on 15 January 2001, and featured the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eri Klaas. The first part of the concert opened with something of an oddity: Hommage à Edvard Grieg, composed for the 150th anniversary of Grieg’s birth …

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    Schnittke Week – Cello Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 5 (Concerto Grosso No. 4)

    by 5:4 November 25, 2010 • 07:46
    November 25, 2010 • 07:46

    Today’s featured Alfred Schnittke concert was broadcast on 14 January 2001, and comprised two monumental pieces, the Cello Concerto No. 2, with Torleif Thedéen taking the solo role, and the dual-named Symphony No. 5 (Concerto Grosso No. 4); Vassily Sinaisky directs the BBC Philharmonic. More than the others, this recording …

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    Schnittke Week – Concerto Grosso No. 6, Monologue, String Trio & Concerto for Three

    by 5:4 November 24, 2010 • 07:58
    November 24, 2010 • 07:58

    Day three of my celebration of the music of Alfred Schnittke features music from a concert focusing on works involving solo strings, broadcast on 14 January 2001. Taking centre stage are soloists Ula Ulijona (viola), Marta Sudraba (cello), and the great violinist Gidon Kremer; they’re joined by the London Sinfonietta, directed …

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