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    Proms 2024: the premières (Part 3)

    by 5:4 September 23, 2024 • 11:42
    September 23, 2024 • 11:42

    It was only a few weeks ago that i was exploring music that took its inspirational origin from grandparental reminiscences. Then, the subject matter was dead fishermen, whereas this time it’s … cows. That might not seem a particularly promising starting point for a new song cycle, and yet Laulut …

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    Forum Wallis 2024

    by 5:4 March 13, 2024 • 10:16
    March 13, 2024 • 10:16

    In recent years the Swiss music festival Forum Wallis has broken up its elements into three parts – instrumental, electronic and folk – taking place separately, in different parts of the Valais region. As last year, i just attended the instrumental performances, which took place over two days in Schloss …

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    Proms 2015: Anders Hillborg – Beast Sampler (UK Première); Raymond Yiu – Symphony; Alissa Firsova – Bergen’s Bonfire (World Premières)

    by 5:4 August 30, 2015 • 15:42
    August 30, 2015 • 15:42

    The latest spate of Proms premières have made for an interesting contrast in terms of abstract versus concrete ideas. At the former end of the continuum—where else would you find him?—was Anders Hillborg and his latest orchestral piece Beast Sampler; at the latter end was Raymond Yiu‘s Symphony, a large-scale …

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    Proms 2015: Betsy Jolas – Wanderlied (UK Première), Shiori Usui – Ophiocordyceps unilateralis s.l. & Joanna Lee – Hammer of Solitude (World Premières)

    by 5:4 July 31, 2015 • 13:59
    July 31, 2015 • 13:59

    Last Saturday’s Proms Matinee concert given by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Franck Ollu, featured several world and UK premières, which together gave one pause for thought with regard to the relationship between surface materials and their deeper impulsion. Their respective points of inspirational departure were extremely varied, encompassing …

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    Formalised and spontaneous: Liza Lim – Tongue of the Invisible

    by 5:4 October 15, 2013 • 14:56
    October 15, 2013 • 14:56

    New and not-so-new CD and digital releases have had pretty short shrift on 5:4 this year, which might suggest not much has been making an impression. Not only is that wrong, it’s almost ludicrously so in the case of the most recent CD in Wergo’s ongoing ‘edition musikFabrik’ series. i’ve …

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    Mixed but strong & accessible: Joseph Phibbs – The Canticle of the Rose

    by 5:4 July 9, 2013 • 18:13
    July 9, 2013 • 18:13

    A few weeks back, NMC Recordings brought out the latest in their ongoing ‘Debut Discs’ series, this time devoted to the music of Joseph Phibbs. It’s an ambitious album, presenting two lengthy song cycles alongside a cluster of additional songs and a pair of instrumental works, focusing on soloists Helen-Jane …

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