Ensemble Modern review – musicanship, agility and some glorious rudeness

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow
Detail outpaced dazzle in this too-obscure festival programme from the Frankurt contemporary music specialistsIt made sense and it didn’t make sense. Securing two concerts from Ensemble Modern was a major coup for Plug, a student festival whose usual raison d’etre is to test out trials and errors of trainee composers at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The festival turned 10 this year and invited Frankfurt’s contemporary music specia