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April 26, 2018
An Assembly and Ensemble x.y
Tomorrow night, people An assembly and ensemble x.y come together at St John’s, Waterloo tomorrow night (Friday 27 April) to play Michael Finnissy’s Piano Concert no.2, as well as works by Bryn Harrison, Paul Newland, Cassandra Miller and Anthony Leung. Piano soloist is Joseph Havlat; Jack Sheen conducts. ‘Few composers working today have managed to connect … Continue reading An Assembly and Ensemble x.y →
April 19, 2018
#promsnewmusic 2018
The BBC Proms listings came out this morning. As usual, I’ve been tweeting the new music highlights, and collected them all below for your reference. No time for much commentary today, I’m afraid, except to say that there’s little in here – aside from the JACK Quartet’s Prom on 13 August – that really has … Continue reading #promsnewmusic 2018 →
April 18, 2018
Arvo Pärt: The Symphonies (ECM)
Arvo Pärt’s symphonies are something of an anomaly in his output. Traditionally the repository for a composer’s most significant, substantial statements, for Pärt the symphony has been a place of transition and uncertainty. He has written four: in 1963, when he was a newly graduated 28-year-old; in 1966; in 1971 and in 2008. Hitherto, I’ve … Continue reading Arvo Pärt: The Symphonies (ECM) →
April 17, 2018
Music after the Fall mixtape for The Lake Radio
A fun outcome of my visit to the Borealis Festival last month was an invitation from Jan Stricker of The Lake Radio to produce a new music mixtape for their podcast. The original brief was that it would accompany an interview with Simon Steen-Andersen and Louise Alenius, so I made sure to include a track … Continue reading Music after the Fall mixtape for The Lake Radio →
Quick and dirty CD reviews: Dunne, Fox/Roche, Kurka
Timothy Dunne: Metaphrase St Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic; Jeffery Meyer, cond.; Artur Zobnin, vn; Irina Vassileva, sop.; Alexandra Shatalova, eng. hn; James Giles, pf innova 930 Works of intricate construction and sometimes surprising turns of direction by New York-born composer Timothy Dunne, a former student of Sergei Slonimsky at the State Conservatory of St Petersburg. The playing … Continue reading Quick and dirty CD reviews: Dunne, Fox/Roche, Kurka →
March 19, 2018
The London Ear returns this week
March in London, in an even-numbered year, means the return of the London Ear to Waterloo’s Cello Factory. I’ve been a friend of Gwyn Pritchard and Andrea Cavallari’s new music festival since its inception – this will be the festival’s fifth edition – and once again I’ll be playing my own small part with a … Continue reading The London Ear returns this week →
March 8, 2018
Radio Rambler – International Women’s Day 2018
Today is International Women’s Day, and as usual I have updated the Radio Rambler Spotify playlist with all-women composers. A year ago, the PRS Foundation published an evaluation of the first five years of its Women Make Music initiative, which revealed that 78% of interviewees said they had experienced sexism within the music industry. At the … Continue reading Radio Rambler – International Women’s Day 2018 →
March 5, 2018
RIP Klaus K. Hübler
I just read of the sad passing of Klaus K. Hübler. Hübler’s career was halted for several years by illness in the 1990s, although I’m not sure if there is a connection. He is remembered chiefly for his innovations in the ‘decoupling’ of instrumental technique – whereby individual performer actions (fingers, lips, bows, breath etc) … Continue reading RIP Klaus K. Hübler →
February 20, 2018
An Assembly play Feldman and Lukoszevieze
This Thursday, 22 February at Hackney Round Chapel, 7.30pm: Jack Sheen’s An Assembly present a rare performance of one of Morton Feldman’s final works, Words and Music, a collaboration with one of the 20th century’s greatest writers, Samuel Beckett. Originally conceived as a radio-play, this 40-minute piece exhibits two of the 20th century’s greatest artists at their … Continue reading An Assembly play Feldman and Lukoszevieze →
February 1, 2018
Walshe, Hartman, Takasugi, Distractfold, Kammerklang
I’m not finding time to plug as many concerts as I would like at the moment, but this one looks pretty special: the next installment of Kammerklang‘s 2017/18 season at Café Oto. Manchester’s brilliant Distractfold Ensemble play works by Hanna Hartman (pictured) and Steven Kazuo Takasugi; and Jennifer Walshe performs her There Was a Visitor. The … Continue reading Walshe, Hartman, Takasugi, Distractfold, Kammerklang →
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