| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 2-Dec-2012 Southbank Centre: Queen Elizabeth Hall | New music galore from the London Sinfonietta at the Southbank Centre |
 Anyone who worries for the health of contemporary composition obviously wasn’t at the Southbank Centre this Sunday, where the London Sinfonietta presented a whole afternoon and evening’s worth of new music in and around the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Their New Music Show 3 comprised four shortish concerts, a series of miniature recitals strategically placed around the hall’s backstage area, two discussion sessions with composers, and stacks of innovative, interesting, new music.Read full review... | |
| 16-Sep-2012 Kings Place: Hall One | Kings Place Festival: London Sinfonietta soloists play the music of Steve Reich |
 Kings Place is my new favourite London arts venue. It is the venue of choice for several prominent ensembles, and it is easy to see why. Acoustically fantastic concert halls provide opportunities for all sorts of music in a formal concert setting, whilst the large open spaces allow for more relaxed performances, where the audience can buy drinks, sit down and listen (or not). It is all kinds of cool.
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| 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... | |
| 9-Jun-2012 Southbank Centre: Purcell Room | London Sinfonietta meets Martin Creed |
 During the first half of this London Sinfonietta concert, I scribbled the phrase 'Lightly anarchic streak' in my notes, referring to the formal daring and the conspicuous rock music influence evident in various pieces.Read full review... | |
