Kings Place
Mark Lockheart, Kings PlaceSunday, 24 March 2013
Suddenly, it's raining Duke Ellington homages. Stateside, there's Terri Lyne Carrington's Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue, a brilliant reimagining of Ellington's classic 1963 trio recording with Charles Mingus and Max Roach that recently hit the... Read more... |
St Matthew Passion, Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Kings PlaceWednesday, 30 January 2013
Kings Place’s Bach Unwrapped season invites audiences to come at the composer from new and unexpected angles. Bach gets arranged, adapted and re-orchestrated, and his legacy is showcased in works from three centuries. Occasionally however he also... Read more... |
Bach Unwrapped, Blaze, La Nuova Musica, Bates, Kings PlaceFriday, 04 January 2013
Faced with yet another world premiere from his friends in the Borodin Quartet, Shostakovich severely asked them whether they’d yet played all of Haydn’s quartets (they hadn’t). As a listener, I feel the same about Bach’s cantatas. Whether or not a... Read more... |
Cage Rattling, King's PlaceWednesday, 14 November 2012
In 1991, the Basque performance artist Esther Ferrar wrote a letter to modern music’s inventive genius, John Cage, on the future of anarchism. Ferrar’s letter – written in the year before Cage died – was in fact a reply to a question about anarchy’s... Read more... |
Full programme announced for 2012 London Jazz FestivalThursday, 13 September 2012The full programme for this year's London Jazz Festival has been announced. Running from Friday 9 to Sunday 18 November, the 10-day event includes premieres, talks, family events, films and workshops. In total, there are over 250 shows in... Read more... |
Spiro, Kings PlaceSunday, 10 June 2012
If the three-day Songlines Encounters Festival got off to a rousing start with folk-punk rowdiness from Poland’s R.U.T.A, by last night things were decidedly more genteel. The Festival, anyway, was an exhilarating musical voyage. Spiro’s last album... Read more... |
R.U.T.A.: Polish punks with fiddlesThursday, 31 May 2012
With the yelling and posturing, R.U.T.A. are clearly a punk band, but it’s like no punk band you’ve ever heard before. The lyrics are in Polish, for one thing, and there are no guitars, but Middle Eastern lutes, archaic fiddles and a battery of... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Conductor Ilan VolkovSaturday, 28 April 2012
Relentlessly energetic, opinionated, and never less than passionate about music-making, Ilan Volkov is a close as you get to a prodigy in the world of conducting. Appointed as Young Conductor in association with the Northern Sinfonia at just 19, at... Read more... |
Soweto Kinch, Kings PlaceSaturday, 28 January 2012
Soweto Kinch's set last night as part of the eXplorations mini-series featured gluttony, envy and a host of other vices. No, not A Life in the Day of an Investment Banker, but a tantalising glimpse of Kinch's take on the Seven Deadly Sins.... Read more... |
The Boxettes, Kings PlaceFriday, 13 January 2012
The band's Facebook page states “Dirty Soulful Groovin Dancey Sweet” under genre. To which I'd add “Dramatic Playful Intense Voluptuous Transporting”. Performing last night as part of the London A Cappella Festival, The Boxettes swept away any... Read more... |
Manhattan Minimalism and Rock'n'RollSaturday, 26 November 2011
This weekend’s three-day Minimalism festival at Kings Place comes to an end tonight looking at the cross-over between rock and new music in New York in the Seventies. It seems to me that the collision between popular and high-art music produced some... Read more... |
Robert Glasper, London Jazz Festival, Kings PlaceFriday, 18 November 2011
There aren't too many pianists who excite jazz aficionados and hip-hop fans in equal measure. But then no other artist has been inspired equally by hip-hop beats on the one hand and Thelonious Monk on the other. And while it appears increasingly... Read more... |
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