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    Estonian Music Days 2025 (Part 3)

    by 5:4 May 22, 2025 • 09:14
    May 22, 2025 • 09:14

    Over the last 10 years, as i’ve been immersing myself ever more deeply into Estonian contemporary music, i’ve tentatively reached a point where i feel i can be more or less confident of what certain composers will or won’t do. Yet i mentioned in Part 1 of the lingering sense …

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    World New Music Days 2024, Faroe Islands (Part 4)

    by 5:4 July 23, 2024 • 08:55
    July 23, 2024 • 08:55

    This year’s World New Music Days was, not surprisingly, an excellent opportunity to experience that most rare and unknown quantity: Faroese contemporary music. i’ve already mentioned how a significant proportion of composers from the Faroe Islands based their work on extant musical ideas and materials, usually folk-related. However, this wasn’t …

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    A song for the head and the heart: the music of Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes

    by 5:4 April 11, 2024 • 09:28
    April 11, 2024 • 09:28

    As an accompaniment to my Dialogue with composer Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes, the following is an essay written for the Estonian journal Sirp, originally published in Estonian translation last year. When I first heard the music of Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes, its effect was almost too much to take. It was in 2017, during …

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    Berlin Philharmonic – The Unsuk Chin Edition

    by 5:4 December 20, 2023 • 14:40
    December 20, 2023 • 14:40

    Like many institutions, the Berlin Philharmonic set up their own record label some years ago, and for much of the last decade has been putting out lavish box sets, featuring not only audio recordings but also blu-rays drawn from their enormous video archive (accessible via the orchestra’s Digital Concert Hall). …

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    Sacrum Profanum 2023 (Part 2)

    by 5:4 November 22, 2023 • 12:23
    November 22, 2023 • 12:23

    As well as the intimacy demonstrated in several concerts at this year’s Sacrum Profanum festival in Kraków, many of the other performances provided opportunities for immersive listening, often within the context of large-scale durations. Two of these, both examples of primary colour, bargain basement minimalism, may well have been striving …

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    Grażyna Bacewicz – Complete Symphonic Works Vol. 1; Piano Concertos

    by 5:4 July 5, 2023 • 11:59
    July 5, 2023 • 11:59

    A composer i’ve been trying to get the measure of lately is Grażyna Bacewicz. Bacewicz died in 1969, but her output seems to be going through something of a rediscovery of late, with concert performances and new recordings now emerging with increasing regularity. It’s a generalisation, i know, but over …

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    Proms 2022: Betsy Jolas – bTunes (World Première)

    by 5:4 September 6, 2022 • 14:16
    September 6, 2022 • 14:16

    In an artistic context, there’s an obvious world of difference between observation, taking inspiration from and / or seeking to emulate or analogise aspects of the natural world and human culture, and critique, taking issue with and / or seeking to highlight problems arising from or endemic within those same …

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    Proms 2019: Jocelyn Pook – You Need to Listen to Us; Alissa Firsova – Red Fox; Ryan Wigglesworth – Piano Concerto (World Premières)

    by 5:4 August 29, 2019 • 16:53
    August 29, 2019 • 16:53

    A few weeks back, when critiquing Hans Zimmer’s short work Earth, i almost held back from writing about the piece as it was taking place in a concert for children. i couldn’t help wondering to what extent it was fair to hold up something so intentionally superficial to critical scrutiny. …

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    Proms 2019: Dieter Ammann – Piano Concerto (“Gran Toccata”) (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 23, 2019 • 13:05
    August 23, 2019 • 13:05

    None of the premières so far at this year’s Proms has left me with a more conflicted first impression than Dieter Ammann‘s new Piano Concerto, given its first performance on Monday by Andreas Haefliger with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo. The basis for that reaction is wrapped …

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    HCMF revisited: James Dillon – Piano Concerto ‘Andromeda’

    by 5:4 November 14, 2017 • 13:28
    November 14, 2017 • 13:28

    Scottish composer James Dillon is a regular fixture at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and the last few years have included several of his larger-scale works. Of these, the performance of his Piano Concerto ‘Andromeda’ at HCMF 2014 was one of the most striking, and has remained vividly in mind …

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