Ensemble Modern at the Roundhouse

By Benjamin Poore, 08 March 2019

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“creating a labyrinthine play of surface and depth, clarity and density”

Reviewed at The Roundhouse, London on 6 March 2019

Boulez, Initiale

Messiaen, 7 Haïkaï, for orchestra, (7 Haiku for piano and orchestra)

Ustvolskaya, Composition no. 2: Dies irae, for eight double basses, wooden cube and piano

Ligeti, Ramifications, for strings

Benjamin, Palimpsest 1

Benjamin, Palimpsest 2

Ensemble Modern

Sir George Benjamin, Conductor

Ueli Wiget, Piano

Ensemble Modern stages a post-war Modernist revival

Kurt Gottschalk, 3rd July

In Frankfurt, a set of new works sound a little too familiar to one pair of old ears.

***11

Ensemble Modern brings music of global migration to New York City

Kurt Gottschalk, 13th April

Ensemble Modern devote a night at Zankel Hall to musical tracings of migratory patterns with works by ex-pat composers born in Cuba, South Africa and the United States.

****1

Ensemble Modern the ultimate precision instrument in Amsterdam

Eleanor Knight, 16th September

Sir George Benjamin conducts Ligeti and his own Into the Little Hill at the Concertgebouw.

****1

Sounds of nature: Francesco Filidei world premiere in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 3rd September

At the Musikfest Berlin, Sir George Benjamin and the Ensemble Modern present an all-contemporary programme reflecting on nature, including Cantico delle Creature.

*****

Sound and Vision: Enno Poppe and Arnulf Herrmann in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 30th August

On the third night of the Musikfest Berlin, Enno Poppe conducts Ensemble Modern in a double-feature concert that explores the potential of sound.

***11

Larcher's The Hunting Gun premieres in Bregenz

Sarah Batschelet, 15th August

The restrained pacing of Larcher's opera suited the intimate setting of the Werkstattbühne.

****1

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Benjamin Poore

Benjamin Poore is a writer and critic. His book on psychoanalysis and literature is forthcoming in 2019. He has previously written about literature and culture for the Independent, the Times Literary Supplement, and Times Higher Education. In his spare time he tries to sing Schubert; he has a very patient teacher.

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