London Sinfonietta/Adès - review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonDig around in secondhand shops and you may turn up old volumes of Feldman's Sixpenny Editions, which provided innocent enjoyment to earlier generations of young pianists. Gerald Barry pays tribute to them in his new 20-minute piece scored for 15 players, highlight of this London Sinfonietta programme conducted by Thomas Adès.Growing up playing such pieces in relative musical isolation has clearly left its mark on Barry. Composers such as the splendidly named Rowsby W...

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