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2013-02-12 18:38:44
Wigmore Hall, LondonSome indication of Huw Watkins' standing as a composer and pianist, besides the Wigmore Hall devoting last weekend to exploring his work, is the roster of names recruited to do so: singers Mark Padmore and Carolyn Sampson, violinists Alina Ibragimova and Laura Samuel, cellists Guy Johnston and Paul Watkins, clarinettist Matt Hunt, flautist Emily Benyon, harpist Lucy Wakeford, the Elias Quartet. It reads like a roll call of the brightest artists of the ascendant generation of British classical music-makers, one distinguished by an attitude to contemporary music that is whole-hearted and exploratory without being partisan.They are good matches for Watkins, whose compositions cut a finely felt line between traditional and modern. The first evening's concert included Watkins's 2007 string quartet In My Craft or Sullen Art, which seems traditional enough on the surface but works on the listener, and on the Dylan Thomas poem it sets, in unusual ways. […]
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