Performer: Serafina Steer

A double geriatric sex scene, and real-life bunny boiling, are crude gimmicks which fail to rescue a flaccid, complacent 40 minutes courtesy of Ergo Phizmiz. 

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.