| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 14-Aug-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 44: A pocket history of post-war music with the London Sinfonietta |
 To judge by the continued chatter, no-one noticed 100 metronomes on stage being set in motion, signalling the beginning of György Ligeti’s Poème symphonique (1962). Even when the lights were dimmed it only dawned on people slowly that the concert had actually already begun. And yet once the realisation hit home, the entire audience was drawn into the piece, the suspense palpable as one by one the metronomes, each set at a pre-fixed speed, dropped out, eventually leaving only three... then two... then one.Read full review... | |
