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| May 2012 Here is our latest review from our concert as part of the Bury-St-Edmunds Festival on the 24th May. '..superb and consistent musicality, illustrating perfectly the versatility of the varied instruments in their collection, and of their own playing as they swapped instruments, playing position and leadership of the group..' For the full review click here. |
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| December 2011 Our latest review for our Candlelight concert courtesy of musicomh.com 'Elegantly modest performers, Consortium5 can produce a ravishing, haunting sound - as well as being able to lighten the mood with jaunty, impish flair.' For the full review click here. |
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| Febuary
2011 'Tangled Pipes' is officially released in the UK. Available on Amazon and for download on itunes. |
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| January
2011 'Tangled Pipes' Album Launch at a sold out Kings Place! Over 200 people packed hall two at Kings Place to enjoy the Nonclassical experience at the one off extravaganza. 'Two of the pieces played by Continum5 were unashamedly picturesque. Kim Ashton’s Dots inveigled bird calls into its dancing rhythms, and Brian Inglis’s Burmese Pictures — mingled with readings from George Orwell’s Burmese Days and Aung San Suu Kyi — had a pleasantly tropical luxuriance. ' Check out the full Telegraph review here. |
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| December
2010 'Tangled Pipes', our first CD on the Nonclassical label is named at one of the classical albums of the year by Time Out Chicago. Further good review from Sequenza21 website: '...Compellingly suggests a new frontier for chamber ensembles'' Read the full review here. |
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| November
2010 We are very grateful to the Britten Pears Foundation for their support of our new commission from Luke Styles, 'A Stratagem for Light'. |
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| July
2010 Consortium5 are delighted to add the support of the RVW Trust to their next commissioning project with Luke Styles. |
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| June
2010 Consortium5 are delighted to receive invaluable funding for their next commission by Luke Styles from the PRS for Music Foundation. |
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| October
2010 Consortium5 sign to the Nonclassical label. An album of new works is to be released in 2010. Nonclassical run London’s pioneering alternative classical club-night displaying live performances from some of the freshest new talent in the classical scene. For more infor about the label click here. |
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| May
2009 C5 on YouTube! We have added a second video - Live at St Martins In The Field in December 2008. To view our lively dance set click here. |
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| March 2009 The Recorder Magazine' Spring Issue 2009 Interview - 'Alan Davis talks to the innovative young recorder consort'. |
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| February
2009 C5 on YouTube! Here is our first appearance on YouTube from our St Martin in the Fields concert, 9th December 2008. Click here to view. |
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| January
2009 More Reviews! After a very successful debut at the Purcell Room we are delighted with two more reviews from The Times and Classicalsource.com. |
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| September
2008 On Saturday 6th September join C5 in Devon at the Totnes Festival 2008 for 'Noyses Sounds and Sweet Ayres' - an exploration of the treasures of Elizabethan and Jacobean music. www.totnesfestival.com for more info. |
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| July
2008 C5 has been selected to be Park Lane Group Young Artists for 2008-09 and as such will give their debut performance in the Purcell Room, London on 5th January 2009 as part of the PLG Young Artists New Year Series. See the Concerts page for more info. |
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| May
2008 Renaissance2 In May Consortium5 will be performing at the Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair, an exciting concert juxtaposing historical performance and new commissions from composers at the three London Conservatoires. 25th May 2008, 7pm WORLD PREMIERE
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| April
2008 At the end of April Consortium5 travel to Glasgow to perform in the UK Conservatoire Composers Forum. They will be performing the World Premiere of pieces by composers from the Royal College of Music and the Guild Hall School of Music and Drama. See the Concerts page for more info. |
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| February
2008 C5 have been busy in the studio through 2007 recording some new tracks; you can listen to excerpts from these here. Hopefully there will be more later this year so watch this space! |
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| January
2008 C5 have just completed a tour of schools in North London on behalf of Enfield Arts Support Service, giving a series of demonstration concerts to introduce the recorder to hundreds of school pupils and to challenge their preconceptions of the instrument. Keep checking back for more information about this, and other educational work, up soon. |
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| October
2007 C5 will be playing live on the BBC Radio 3 programme "In Tune" on Monday 15th October 2007, at around 6:15pm. They will be presenting a programme to include works by the renowned renaissance composers Byrd, Dowland, Holborne and Tye, and will also be performing the final movement from Luke Styles' "Three Stages", a work they commissioned and recently premiered. |
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| July
2007 Consortium5 have just have been appointed the English Concert Junior Fellows at Trinity College of Music, London, for the academic year 2007-2008. As a large part of our work at Trinity, they will forging links with student composers and are commissioning works for the renaissance consort of recorders that explore and test the limits of the instrument's possibilities. |
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