22 Feb

March Concert Picks - New Music in London   by  Arlene Sierra

An amazing crop of new music concerts coming up next month in London:

Ensemble 10/10 at Wigmore (5 March)
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/ensemble-10-10-24679
The acclaimed contemporary ensemble of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Atsuhiko Gondai portrait - Philharmonia Music of Today (9 March)
http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/concerts/09mar10mot/

Barbican Total Immersion: Wolfgang Rihm (12/13 March)
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=9272

Barry and Ayres - London Sinfonietta (17  March)
http://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/event/sound-music
Two love stories - Gerald Barry's 'Beethoven' and Richard Ayres quirky 'In The Alps' (below)

Celebrating Birtwistle's 75th at Wigmore (24 March)
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/nash-ensemble-24685
Including Five Distances for Five Instruments  and a new oboe quartet

Kagel and Casken, spoken text and silent film - Counterpoise at Kings Place (29 March)
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/out-hear/counterpoise-%E2%80%93-loved-to-death

Also each Tuesday in March: http://www.prsformusicfoundation.com/news/spnmsolospotlights.htm
Solo Spotlights is a series of concerts of cutting edge music each Tuesday in March in the atmospheric setting of London’s Wapping Hydraulic Power Station.

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