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  • Premières

    Stuart MacRae – Prometheus Symphony (World Première)

    by 5:4 November 12, 2019 • 13:38
    November 12, 2019 • 13:38 2 minutes read

    i’m concluding this brief look at three recent new symphonies with one by another Scottish composer, Stuart MacRae. As in James MacMillan’s latest symphony, MacRae has also turned to mythology for inspiration, drawing on the ancient Greek tale of Prometheus. According to legend – as recounted by 8th century poet Hesiod …

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    James MacMillan – Symphony No. 5 ‘Le grand Inconnu’ (World Première)

    by 5:4 November 6, 2019 • 12:54
    November 6, 2019 • 12:54 2 minutes read

    Symphonies – one minute you think that no-one’s really writing them anymore, and then suddenly three of them turn up in quick succession. Of course, in reality the apparent lack of them may well be more to do with the fact that composers today are reluctant to title a work …

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    HCMF revisited: James Dillon – Piano Concerto ‘Andromeda’

    by 5:4 November 14, 2017 • 13:28
    November 14, 2017 • 13:28 2 minutes read

    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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    Proms 2015: Colin Matthews – String Quartet No. 5 (European Première); James MacMillan – Symphony No. 4 (World Première)

    by 5:4 August 14, 2015 • 08:00
    August 14, 2015 • 08:00 1 minutes read

    At the start of last week, the Proms saw important premières from two veterans of new music, Colin Matthews and James MacMillan. Both composers have a demonstrative relationship with music from earlier times, producing work that often seeks to find a comfortable marriage of old and new, looking back and …

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  • Lent Series

    James MacMillan – St John Passion

    by 5:4 April 2, 2012 • 13:46
    April 2, 2012 • 13:46 2 minutes read

    The next piece in my Lent series i’m including more as a curiosity than as a work i deeply admire. James MacMillan‘s St John Passion was composed in 2007 and premièred in April the following year. MacMillan structures the work in 10 movements, grouped into two parts; the first (movements …

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