| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 17-Mar-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | Stupendously good: The LA Phil and Dudamel explore colour at the Barbican |
 The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra’s residency at the Barbican has been a huge success. Rather than churn out time-honoured family favourite pieces of classical music, the orchestra has seized the opportunity to showcase its prowess in the performance of new music – three European premières including John Adams’ powerful passion-oratorio The Gospel According to the Other Mary, as well as Claude Vivier’s colourful Zipangu were in the mix.Read full review... | |
| 5-May-2012 Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur | An Engaging End to Ensemble Paramirabo’s First Season |
 Ensemble Paramirabo, a young and highly talented contemporary music ensemble based in Montréal, offered the final concert of their first season tonight at the Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur. Their group is comprised of the standard Pierrot Lunaire instrumentation for which so many 20th-century works were written: flute (Jeffrey Stonehouse), clarinet (François Gagné), violin (Aysel Taghi-Zada), cello (Viviana Gosselin) and piano (Gabrielle Gingras). In their first season Ensemble Paramirabo has already performed over 30 works, including five commissions.
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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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| 12-Dec-2011 St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch | Grisey and Suckling in Shoreditch Church |
.jpg) Reading Gérard Grisey’s programme notes on his masterpiece Vortex Temporum is not the most agreeable experience. The reader is informed that the work is structured around ‘three basic forms’: ‘the original event – a sinusoidal wave – and two continuous events, an attack with or without resonance as well as a sound held with or without crescendo’.Read full review... | |
