Event listing: The Pieces of the Compass Rose | Queen Elizabeth Hall | Sat 1 Jun 2013 at 19:30

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Southbank Centre: Queen Elizabeth HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

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Kagel, Mauricio (1931-2008)

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London Sinfonietta
Thierry Fischer	Conductor

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Mauricio Kagel's The Pieces of the Compass Rose with the London Sinfonietta and Thierry Fischer

Paul Kilbey, 3rd June

How strange. I was engrossed throughout the London Sinfonietta’s performance of Mauricio Kagel’s The Pieces of the Compass Rose last night, and I have no idea how to describe it. Each of the eight pieces in this remarkable cycle for “salon band” is titled after a point on the compass – and each is, essentially, an evocation of that point. Or perhaps I mean “direction”, or “place”.

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