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Rihm - 'Concerto' Dithyrambe

Nicolas Hodges

Arditti String Quartet & Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Jonathan Nott & John Axelrod

Strangely exploratory yet masterfully controlled, and immediately attractive, utterances.

Rihm - 'Concerto' Dithyrambe

Nicolas Hodges

Arditti String Quartet & Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Jonathan Nott & John Axelrod

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Strangely exploratory yet masterfully controlled, and immediately attractive, utterances.

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The concerto is for string quartet and orchestra but as one might expect, is not a dialogue between the two, more of a “manic monologue”. Sotto Voce 2 for piano and small orchestra is spontaneous, freeflowing, almost a “stream of consciousness”.

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Awards and reviews

12th July 2009

Strangely exploratory yet masterfully controlled, and immediately attractive, utterances.

31st July 2009

[Sotto voce Notturno] explores a strange hybrid world that has one foot in the 18th century, the other firmly in Rihm's own time. It's full of beautiful, elusive sounds, with slowly changing, delicate textures. [Sotte voce 2 Capriccio] returns to that world, but to view it from a much more agitated, anguished perspective. Played together they make a perfectly balanced form, and the soloist Nicolas Hodges plays them with perfectly judged transparency and tact.
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