| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 20-Apr-2013 Kings Place: Hall One | Echoes of Bach: Principal players of Aurora Orchestra at Kings Place |
 “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”, goes the familiar phrase, and that can be applied in life to any number of things, including music. Were the father of harmony, Johann Sebastian Bach, still alive today, he would be beyond flattered.Read full review... | |
| 20-Jan-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Music worth fighting over: Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony at The Rest is Noise |
 You are sitting in the choir stalls of the Royal Festival Hall, watching the ceramic artist and writer Edmund de Waal address you, his back to an enormous sea of empty, grey, imposing seats. He is delivering a vivid narrative account of a day in the life of a young aristocratic Jewish boy in early 20th-century Vienna. He puts you, his audience, in the protagonist’s shoes, referring to this character as “you”. Quite taken with this technique, you later decide to write your review of the event in the same style.
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| 27-Oct-2012 Barbican Centre: Hall | Looking Forward with Britten Sinfonia at the Barbican |
 Rhydian Peters.jpg) Pleasantly enough, Britten Sinfonia went down a thoroughly unconventional route in celebrating their 20th birthday at the Barbican on Saturday, with a brilliantly varied range of new pieces mixing with chamber orchestra classics. With a stellar range of guests, they carried us along all the way from Purcell to Moondog, encapsulating the spirit of versatility and openness which makes the group what it is.
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| 16-Oct-2012 Walt Disney Concert Hall | Music by Nico Muhly and Daniel Bjarnason with the LA Phil and John Adams |
 “It is impossible to find anyone in the world today who is young and not ill,” muses André Breton in Chiaki Kawamata’s novel Death Sentences. “Youth itself is a kind of disease.” There is in youth something that exerts a powerful hold on the imagination. Its freshness, its arrogance, its promise – all of these building a magnetic aura that exerts a powerful hold on our consciousness. Especially so when youth is bound to an artist wielding a mastery of technique that belies the tenderness of their years.Read full review... | |
