Apartment House debut at Wigmore Hall

By Paul Kilbey, 06 January 2014

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Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 4 January 2014

Crane, Sparling 2000

Fox, Memento

Garland, Where beautiful feathers abound

Wolman, Dead End

Spahlinger, 128 erfüllte augenblicke

Mažulis, Canon mensurabilis

Fox, Blank

Mačiūnas, In Memoriam to Adriano Olivetti

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Apartment House’s day of delight, insight and excellence

Christopher Woodley, 13th April

At Wigmore Hall, Apartment House entertains and delights in a day of concerts, while Elaine Mitchener finds her voice in impressive style.

****1

Spectacular Feldman with Apartment House at The Rest is Noise

Penny Homer, 8th November

“Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. Do something else to it”. These are Morton Feldman’s own words on his Patterns in a Chromatic Field. And they are a concise and accurate description of what occurs during the piece. Patterns... is one of Feldman’s later works, composed in 1981.

*****

Listen closely: Quiet music with Apartment House at Kings Place

Paul Kilbey, 22nd September

There’s something strange about applauding at the end of very quiet music: it is counterintuitive to make more noise clapping than the performers made during the actual performance. But the appreciative Kings Place crowd in Hall Two knew the drill, and this concert of “Some Recent Silences”, as it was billed, proved justly popular.

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Eine Ode an das unergründliche Universum von Morton Feldman

Michael Klier, 9th January

Apartment House ist es gelungen, einem breiten Publikum die Möglichkeit zu geben, diese nachdenklich machende und die Fantasie beflügelnde Musik kennenzulernen.

****1

Concertos – for violin and for orchestra – from the Hallé

Peter Connors, 22nd March

Viktoria Mullova is a superb soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto, while an orchestra full of soloists play Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with Kahchun Wong presiding.

*****

Chopin and Franck reframed with elegance and insight in Dublin

Andrew Larkin, 20th March

In Dublin, Jean-Luc Tingaud and Louis Lortie bring clarity and purpose to two composers often ill at ease with the orchestra.

****1

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Paul Kilbey

Paul was Reviews Editor at Bachtrack from 2012 to February 2014. He has written on music and culture for publications including Culture Wars, the Huffington Post, the Independent and the Guardian. He holds BA and MPhil degrees in music from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and is particularly passionate about contemporary music of all types. His website is here.