London Sinfonietta/Økland/Bourne – review

Kings Place, London"Ahright," said jazz pianist Matthew Bourne, ambling on stage barefoot before fixing the piano with a quizzical stare, as if unconvinced of its loyalty. We were all right, too, after a first half of the Sinfonietta doing good business as usual, with David Hocking's momentous Xenakis Rebonds A and a fluent turn along the twisting byways of Berio's seventh Sequenza by oboist Gareth Hulse. The inclusion of Kaikhosru Sorabji in the programme worried me, but the Fantasiettina Atema...

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