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    In memoriam Per Nørgård

    by 5:4 May 28, 2025 • 16:03
    May 28, 2025 • 16:03

    Even though i knew this day was coming, and potentially coming soon, i’m still deeply sad at the news that Per Nørgård has died today. What makes me even sadder, instinctively, is that i feel i don’t know his work better, that there’s so much of his output i’ve not …

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  • Best of the Year

    Mixtape #68 : Best Albums of 2023

    by 5:4 January 1, 2024 • 06:00
    January 1, 2024 • 06:00

    A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL! i want to begin 2024 by saying a huge thank you to all of you who have supported 5:4 during the last 12 months, most of all to my fantastic collection of Patrons. If you weren’t already aware, 5:4 is a literal …

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  • Best of the Year

    Best Albums of 2023 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 December 30, 2023 • 00:00
    December 30, 2023 • 00:00

    It’s difficult to compare years, but 2023, it seems to me, has been a better than usual year for highly diverse, vividly imaginative music-making. Perhaps that explains why this year’s list has felt more difficult than usual to compile – but here they are, the best of them, all of …

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  • CD/Digital releases

    Per Nørgård – Symphony No. 8

    by 5:4 October 23, 2023 • 14:06
    October 23, 2023 • 14:06

    The other conductor filling in the blanks in a symphony cycle is John Storgårds. With the Oslo Philharmonic, Storgårds has previously recorded four of Per Nørgård‘s eight symphonies (numbers 2, 4, 5 and 6) on a couple of discs released by DaCapo in 2016, which i explored at the time. …

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  • Mixtapes

    The Isolation Mixtapes : P

    by 5:4 July 20, 2020 • 08:33
    July 20, 2020 • 08:33

    This week’s Isolation Mixtape focuses on artists, groups and composers beginning with the letter P. As usual the mix celebrates some of the best and most striking music from the last decade, with two tracks from each of the years 2010 to 2019, featured in chronological order. Here’s the tracklisting …

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    Proms 2018: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 September 25, 2018 • 12:04
    September 25, 2018 • 12:04

    Many thanks to all of you for the comments you made and votes you cast during my coverage of the premières at the 2018 Proms season. A total of 1,467 votes were cast this year, an increase of 34% on last year’s ‘turnout’. Once again, there was something of an …

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  • FestivalsPremières

    Proms 2018: Per Nørgård – Symphony No. 3 (UK Première); Rolf Wallin – WHIRLD; Bushra El-Turk – Crème Brûlée on a Tree (World Premières)

    by 5:4 August 29, 2018 • 12:51
    August 29, 2018 • 12:51

    Quite apart from anything else they may embody, this year’s Proms premières have occupied pretty much the entire span of the profound—trivial continuum. At its most extreme, this has been exemplified by the most recent new works, which have ranged from a compositional exploration of infinity culminating in a state …

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  • Mixtapes

    Mixtape #39 : Days

    by 5:4 July 1, 2017 • 18:56
    July 1, 2017 • 18:56

    The new 5:4 mixtape takes as its theme the days of the week, charting a slow progression from Monday to Sunday. That might not sound like a particularly promising theme, but i’ve been noticing in recent months just how many tracks in my music library contain either specific or more …

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  • CD/Digital releases

    New (Nordic) releases: Vilde&Inga, Nordic Affect, Trio Aristos, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    by 5:4 June 5, 2017 • 13:16
    June 5, 2017 • 13:16

    There’s been a number of very interesting new releases recently featuring composers and performers from the Nordic countries. At the most unconventional end of the spectrum are violinist Vilde Sandve Alnæs and double bassist Inga Margrete Aas, a Norwegian duo who perform free-improvised music together as Vilde&Inga. Their new album Silfr, released …

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  • CD/Digital releases

    New releases: symphonies by Paul von Klenau, Peter Maxwell Davies, Andrzej Panufnik, Xiaogang Ye & Per Nørgård

    by 5:4 September 17, 2016 • 16:52
    September 17, 2016 • 16:52

    It’s high time i got back to appraising some of the more interesting new releases. No fewer than three contemporary pieces bearing the title ‘symphony’ were performed at this year’s Proms, and coincidentally quite a few of the CDs i’ve been sent have also featured 20th and 21st century symphonies. …

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  • Premières

    Per Nørgård – Three Nocturnal Movements (World Première)

    by 5:4 June 5, 2016 • 16:04
    June 5, 2016 • 16:04

    It’s Constitution Day (Grundlovsdag) in Denmark today, the closest the country gets to a national day, so i thought i’d mark the occasion with a piece by one of the country’s best-known composers that i’ve been spending time with lately. It’s a re-thinking by Per Nørgård of one of his earlier works, Remembering Child, …

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    The concerto reinvented: Jakob Kullberg – Momentum: Nordic Cello Concertos

    by 5:4 October 19, 2012 • 23:15
    October 19, 2012 • 23:15

    i’ve commented in the past about the number of contemporary composers drawn to writing violin concertos—they’ve been a regular fixture among the works premièred at the Proms in the last few years—but personally, i’ve always been more drawn to the cello concerto. Composers exploring this medium seem, almost unavoidably, to …

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    Proms 2012: the premières – how you voted

    by 5:4 September 23, 2012 • 15:02
    September 23, 2012 • 15:02

    Two weeks have passed since the Proms 2012 season came to an end, so today i’ve closed the polls for each of the works premièred this year. This was the first year that i included polls, and in total 615 votes were cast; thanks to all of you who took …

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  • FestivalsPremières

    Proms 2012: Per Nørgård – Symphony No. 7 (UK Première)

    by 5:4 August 18, 2012 • 11:17
    August 18, 2012 • 11:17

    Despite the understandable reluctance on the part of contemporary composers to use the word, there’s nothing quite like seeing ‘symphony’ on a concert programme to get one’s blood and expectations pumping. When the composer in question is Per Nørgård, as it was last week at the Proms, then the excitement …

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