Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival – review

Various venues, HuddersfieldA generation and vast gulf of musical difference separates Wolfgang Rihm and his German compatriot, the composer and conductor Matthias Pintscher. But what they have in common is that both frequently look to visual art as a source of inspiration: Pintscher has created aural responses to the installations of Joseph Beuys; while Rihm's cello concerto, Versuchung (which Pintscher conducted with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra), is a reflection on Max Beckmann's expre...

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