| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 10-Feb-2013 Southbank Centre: Queen Elizabeth Hall | Stravinsky's Renard at The Rest is Noise with Barbara Hannigan and the London Sinfonietta |
 Venturing into the Paris of the 1910s and 1920s, the Southbank Centre’s The Rest is Noise festival continues its journey through a brambly thicket of 20th-century music. Sunday’s programme focused on the output of Igor Stravinsky, the Russian composer who famously engendered riotous uproar at the Paris Opera House in 1913 with his savage ballet Le sacre du printemps. Yet 100 years after this momentous event, Stravinsky’s music still holds surprises in store for us.Read full review... | |
| 24-Jan-2013 Southbank Centre: Queen Elizabeth Hall | Voicing early modernism: The Rest is Noise with Barbara Hannigan |
 Billed as “The soundtrack of the 20th century”, The Rest is Noise season of 2013 has now commenced at the Southbank Centre. Concert programmes scheduled throughout January have focused on the Second Viennese School and its infamous break with western tonality. However, for those bewitched by the descent of music history into an atonal abyss, Thursday’s concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall offered a refreshing take on the narrative we are apparently so well acquainted with.Read full review... | |
| 24-Jun-2011 Philharmonie: Grote Zaal | A feast for the ears at the opening night of Haarlem's Koorbiënnale |
 The Koorbiënnale in Haarlem is a biannual festival, organized for the sixth time this year. The opening night consisted of four exciting modern pieces and the world premiere of a new work by the Latvian composer Ēriks Eŝenvalds. The first piece played was Daan Manneke’s Topos for chorus and harmonium. It is a song cycle set to four poems by Arthur Rimbaud. The singers have a different position on stage for each song, and although the moving around may seem unnecessarily distracting, the different positions actually did create wonderful effects.Read full review... | |
