| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 19-May-2013 Kings Place: Hall Two | Bruce Brubaker plays Alvin Curran at Kings Place |
 (1).jpg) Sixteen minutes of mercilessly pummelling the piano keys, alternating shimmering, dissonant chords between right and left hands, as fast as humanly possible or maybe slightly faster. This fleet, beguiling whoosh of texture left the Kings Place audience in no doubt as to Bruce Brubaker’s technical prowess, nor his astonishingly delicate, sensitive touch at the keyboard. If we’d been after proof of his commitment to championing interesting new music, at whatever personal cost – well, he had that covered too.
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| 11-May-2013 LSO St Lukes | A Scream and an Outrage: Session Two at LSO St Luke's |
 The title for this Barbican event certainly threw up some interesting questions. Having failed to attend a riotous dinner party that was characterised by one attendee as “a scream and an outrage”, Nico Muhly set about curating a series of concerts under this title. However, no screams or outrages occurred this weekend. Instead the audience was greeted by the sandal-clad, ponytailed oracles of the New York’s fashionable downtown music scene, whose contributions were gently mesmeric rather than abrasive.
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| 10-May-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | Not an outrageous start to Nico Muhly's A Scream and an Outrage weekend at the Barbican |
 Nico Muhly describes A Scream and an Outrage, the weekend of events he curated at the Barbican this weekend, as like a dinner party, “a gathering of friends and family new and old; loosely organised”. A wonderfully relaxed vibe was even present on entering the hall for the first concert on Friday: Muhly and a few pals were sat at the side of the stage, quietly and tastefully improvising around a drone. The sense of conviviality which ran throughout the evening was an unusual and welcome thing for a (basically) classical concert. The music, on the other hand, was very uneven.
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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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