| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 12-Apr-2012 Sage: Hall One | Beginning with a Sneeze: The National Youth Orchestra Folk Explosion |
 Composers have a long tradition of incorporating folk tunes into their music, and this evening’s concert by the National Youth Orchestra, with support from members of the folk group Bellowhead, really proved the point that musical genres are not separate boxes, but just points on a continuum, with no fixed boundaries.
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| 9-Jan-2012 Southbank Centre: Purcell Room | Park Lane Group Young Artists at the Purcell Room |
 This January’s Park Lane Group Young Artists Series is featuring 28 exceptional young performers over five concerts. Each concert further features a piece by a different contemporary composer each night, as well as one by an older, ‘Linked Composer’. On Monday the composer featured was Thomas Adès, who was ‘linked’ to Gerald Barry. The Muse Piano Quintet performed Barry's Piano Quartet no. 1 alongside Adès’ Piano Quintet, and the programme was completed by a number of pieces from flautist Rosanna Ter-Berg and pianist Leo Nicholson.Read full review... | |
