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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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    Proms 2018: Tansy Davies – What Did We See?; Jessica Wells – Rhapsody for solo oud; Joby Talbot – Ink Dark Moon (World Premières); Georg Friedrich Haas – Concerto Grosso No. 1 (UK Première)

    by 5:4 August 5, 2018 • 13:01
    August 5, 2018 • 13:01

    Every year the nature of the works premièred at the Proms – presumably due in part to the festival’s (i.e. the BBC’s) risk-averse emphasis on popularity and familiarity over challenge and provocation – veers wildly between extremes of light- and heavyweight fare. The most recent quartet of new works, considered …

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    CBSO Centre, Birmingham: BCMG – Parallel Colour

    by 5:4 February 7, 2016 • 14:42
    February 7, 2016 • 14:42

    You’d have been forgiven for expecting last night’s concert given by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group—titled “Parallel Colour”—to be primarily concerned with harmony, or failing that, timbre. But in fact the overriding connection between many of the six featured works was stark economy of means. It’s a phrase that sounds intrinsically …

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    Proms 2013: John Woolrich / Tansy Davies – Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (World Premières)

    by 5:4 August 26, 2013 • 15:23
    August 26, 2013 • 15:23

    Last Saturday’s Proms matinee focused on a work created 60 years ago to mark the Queen’s coronation. Instigated by Benjamin Britten, he and five other composers each wrote a variation for string orchestra based on the Irish tune ‘Sellenger’s Round’; titled Variations on an Elizabethan Theme, the complete suite was …

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    Music of a dark and difficult pathology: Tansy Davies – Spine

    by 5:4 October 5, 2012 • 20:54
    October 5, 2012 • 20:54

    Anyone with even a mild interest in contemporary music can’t have failed to encounter the music of Tansy Davies. She’s clearly going through something of a vogue at the moment, the high-profile commissions (including the Proms and King’s College, Cambridge) and performances being complemented more recently by CD releases of …

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    Tansy Davies – Christmas Eve (World Première)

    by 5:4 December 26, 2011 • 14:35
    December 26, 2011 • 14:35

    The highlight of this year’s Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge was the commissioned carol, composed by Tansy Davies, setting Christina Rossetti’s poem Christmas Eve. Considering Tansy’s previous output, which consists largely of hard-edged, punchy instrumental works, it was hard to know quite what to expect. …

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    Proms 2010: Tansy Davies – Wild Card (World Première)

    by 5:4 September 8, 2010 • 21:59
    September 8, 2010 • 21:59

    The prepenultimate première at this year’s Proms was one i’ve been very much looking forward to: Tansy Davies‘ Wild Card, receiving its first performance this evening. i’m fortunate to have had a number of lengthy conversations with Tansy in the last year or so, and her compositional mind is an …

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