| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 2-Dec-2012 Southbank Centre: Queen Elizabeth Hall | New music galore from the London Sinfonietta at the Southbank Centre |
 Anyone who worries for the health of contemporary composition obviously wasn’t at the Southbank Centre this Sunday, where the London Sinfonietta presented a whole afternoon and evening’s worth of new music in and around the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Their New Music Show 3 comprised four shortish concerts, a series of miniature recitals strategically placed around the hall’s backstage area, two discussion sessions with composers, and stacks of innovative, interesting, new music.Read full review... | |
| 25-Mar-2012 Royal Festival Hall, Foyer | Morsels and Miniatures at Oliver Coates' Harmonic Series |
 The Southbank Centre is riddled with cubby-holes, and it was in a particularly tucked-away corner – the “Spirit Level” bar – that a small audience of dedicated sound-lovers heard this exciting concert of morsels and miniatures. Perched in this top-floor bar, our picturesque backdrop to the stage was a dusk view of Westminster. Delightful but devilishly distracting!
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| 16-Mar-2012 Barbican Centre: Hall | Nico Muhly with the Britten Sinfonia and Friends |
 To call last night’s Nico Muhly extravaganza at the Barbican a concert of two halves would not go far enough. It was more like two concerts, with a surprisingly short gap between them. The first was made up of three new classical works played by the Britten Sinfonia, and the second was a set of arty folk numbers and other chamber miniatures by Muhly and others. The whole evening was a provocative mixture of styles – if not always a successful one.
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| 3-Mar-2012 The Roundhouse | London Contemporary Orchestra at the Reverb Festival |
 There's classical music, and there's pop. You can throw as many violins into the bridge section as you like, and you can amplify the orchestra all you want as well. It's unfortunate, but a certain divide looks set to stay. However, we were given a glimpse of a better world on Saturday night with the London Contemporary Orchestra, who somehow succeeded in filling the Camden Roundhouse with keen, engaged listeners drinking Becks, for a cutting-edge Reverb Festival concert which included works by arch-modernists Xenakis and Stockhausen.
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