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Cassie Kinoshi x Ensemble intercontemporain review – vivid and anarchic, new music programme full of thrills
A memorable work by Hannah Kendall and Cassie Kinoshi’s [Untitled] – featuring virtuoso turntabling and choreography - were paired with Boulez’s visionary Sur Incises, all conducted by rising star Nicolò Umberto Foron
Under rising-star conductor Nicolò Umberto Foron, its moments of freefall reverberation were a delicious release from the ultra-precise rhythmic flurries of three pianos, thunderous in their lower register. Kinoshi’s [Untitled] was a noisier, funkier affair, incorporating virtuosic live turntabling by NikNak, whose whirlwind scratches cut deeply across the orchestra’s dense textures, as well as video by French artist Julien Creuzet and solo choreography from tyroneisaacstuart. Momentum gathered through the hefty bass of lower strings, fiendish trumpet curlicues were picked up by a cello screaming high up the fingerboard and two flutes combined in a moreish, barline-defying groove.
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