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    Chiyoko Szlavnics – Memory Spaces

    by 5:4 December 5, 2025 • 09:13
    December 5, 2025 • 09:13

    i didn’t realise how much i’d missed listening to Chiyoko Szlavnics‘ music until i pressed play on Memory Spaces, the latest album of her music. It’s been far too long, and while my interest in music exploring alternative tunings has waned considerably as it’s become slowly and stupidly reconfigured into …

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    Best Albums of 2024 (Part 2)

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    Justė Janulytė – Apnea

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    World New Music Days 2024, Faroe Islands (Part 3)

    by 5:4 July 17, 2024 • 11:04
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    Gloria Coates – Time Frozen – Works for Chamber Orchestra

    by 5:4 April 19, 2024 • 16:34
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    Allan Pettersson – Complete Edition: Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 for String Orchestra, 1956-57

    by 5:4 February 29, 2024 • 06:00
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    Sacrum Profanum 2023 (Part 2)

    by 5:4 November 22, 2023 • 12:23
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    Huw Watkins – Little Symphony

    by 5:4 February 27, 2023 • 08:43
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    Gloria Coates – Symphony No. 1 “Music on Open Strings” (UK Première)

    by 5:4 February 20, 2023 • 17:12
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    Elaine Agnew – Hold (World Première)

    by 5:4 December 3, 2022 • 05:00
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    Galina Grigorjeva – Molitva (World Première, theremin & strings version)

    by 5:4 December 2, 2022 • 05:00
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    Peter Maxwell Davies – The Fall of the Leafe

    by 5:4 September 23, 2022 • 02:03
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    Estonian Music Days 2022 (Part 4)

    by 5:4 May 9, 2022 • 09:52
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    Xiaogang Ye – Mount E’mei; Winter; The Song of the Earth

    by 5:4 August 20, 2021 • 00:00
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    Enno Poppe – Filz

    by 5:4 June 29, 2021 • 15:53
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    Maria Kõrvits – Darkness and Deeper Dark (World Première)

    by 5:4 December 22, 2019 • 05:00
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    Proms 2019: Jonny Greenwood – Horror vacui (World Première)

    by 5:4 September 11, 2019 • 19:08
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    World Music Days 2019, Estonia (Part 1)

    by 5:4 May 13, 2019 • 18:18
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    Cheltenham Music Festival 2018: The Strings of the BBC NOW; Hansel & Gretel

    by 5:4 July 9, 2018 • 12:11
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    Proms 2017: Erkki-Sven Tüür – Flamma (UK Première)

    by 5:4 August 4, 2017 • 11:46
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