The London Sinfonietta
(Picture: Monika S Jakubowska)There are times when contemporary classical music seems sealed off from what’s going on in the world outside. Not here. This concert, conducted by Sian Edwards, was part of London Sinfonietta’s Writing the Future programme for emerging composers; the two pieces it featured were head-on confrontations with everyday politics, and I don’t mean illicit parties.
Alicia Jane Turner’s Tell Me When You Get Home might have been ripped from the headlines we’ve been reading for months, not least since Sarah Everard’s murder. Their (Turner’s preferred pronoun) music often presents itself as something close to an installation; here what we got was a miniature opera.
