Star rating: ** As the last in a vast cycle of recitals of Bach and Beethoven for breakfast, Chopin and Rachmaninov after lunch, Mozart and Brahms at teatime, and matter more modern towards midnight, this programme entitled Stravinsky Late by four award-winning instrumentalists included music by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Judith Weir as well as the key figure of twentieth-century music.
Though a work by Ades had to be omitted, the event remained adventurous, even if the gleaming function room in Overseas House - its acoustics as dry as a bone - seemed no place for chamber music.
Why the young violinist (Tom Hankey), cellist (John Myerscough), clarinettist (Sara Temple) and pianist (Andrew Beatson) performed barefoot was puzzling, but then so was the decision to sidestep even a single movement from Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, a work precisely designed for such an ensemble.
Still, Turnage's Messiaen-like Berceusemade some amends, as did Weir's whimsical Sketches from a Bagpiper's Album and, above all, Stravinsky's spiky suite from The Soldier's Tale.
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