| Date and venue | Title | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|
| 21-May-2013 Roulette | Back to the future: Iktus Percussion present Nono, Stockhausen and Kagel at Roulette | Meg Wilhoite |
 The 1960s and 70s are famous for breakthrough developments in rock music, but the story was really no different for the field of art music during those decades. The advent of electronics seems to have instilled in composers a fresh thirst for sound-exploration and conceptual writing. Take for instance the eclectic selection of pieces from that era performed by Iktus Percussion on Tuesday night, written, as percussionist Chris Graham put it, by “three heavyweights of the 20th century”.
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| 24-Mar-2013 Park Avenue Armory | Stockhausen's Oktophonie incites intergalactic panic attack at the Park Avenue Armory, New York | Rebecca Lentjes |
 “Welcome! Please remove your shoes and leave them under the benches to your right, and then put on this cloak.”
Had I stumbled into Hogwarts? A cult ritual? No, I was just one of hundreds of curious concert-goers filing into the Upper East Side’s Park Avenue Armory for a rare musical event.Read full review... | ||
| 24-Aug-2012 Argyle Works | Mittwoch aus Licht by Birmingham Opera: An achievement on an Olympian scale | Dorothy Wilson |
 Birmingham Opera Company’s production of Mittwoch aus Licht, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s six-hour sonic exploration of light, love, and the boundlessness of the human imagination, was a triumph from start to finish, and an unforgettable experience. Graham Vick’s spectacular production fostered a sense of child-like wonder that continued unabated throughout the night.
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| 10-Apr-2012 Walt Disney Concert Hall | Stockhausen, Cage, and Bettison at Green Umbrella concert | Ted Ayala |
| Dangle the term “modern music” in front of your average classical music listener and chances are their reaction will range anywhere from polite indifference to outright bile-spewing hatred. Even after the advent of minimalism, neo-romanticism, the “new tonality”, and scores (pardon the pun) of composers who affect to write “accessible” music for the masses, the sometimes-gritty music of the mid-20th century avant-garde refuses to go away. If anything, it’s found a more secure footing than ever, enjoying a dedicated legion of young followers for whom such music holds no terrors. Read full review... | ||
| 3-Mar-2012 The Roundhouse | London Contemporary Orchestra at the Reverb Festival | Paul Kilbey |
 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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| 6-Feb-2012 Wigmore Hall | Piano Adventures: Marc-André Hamelin at Wigmore Hall | Frances Wilson |
 Fran Kaufman.jpg) Canadian pianist (and sometime composer) Marc-André Hamelin can play anything. Or so it would appear from his recital at Wigmore Hall last night, his first concert in London following his dazzling all-Liszt Prom last Summer. He wowed the audience with an adventurous programme spanning almost two centuries of radical creative impulses, from Haydn to Stockhausen, and featuring large-scale works by Liszt and Villa-Lobos along the way.
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