Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Nicolas Hodges plays Jean Barraqué

By Sam Wigglesworth, 19 November 2012

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Reviewed at Huddersfield University: St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield on 17 November 2012

Barraqué, Intermezzo

Barraqué, Deux morceaux

Barraqué, Piano Sonata

Nicolas Hodges, Piano

An American in Paris: the Philadelphia Orchestra plays Betsy Jolas

Cameron Kelsall, 18th October

Alongside works by Bernstein and Copland, conductor David Robertson and pianist Nicolas Hodges give the US premiere of Jolas's cheeky concerto bTunes.

***11

Prom 13: Star-struck Messiaen from Sakari Oramo and the BBCSO

Chris Garlick, 28th July

Olivier Messiaen deeply personal voice and its influence echoed far and wide across the decades and across national boundaries.

****1

Precision and transparency from Sakari Oramo and the BBCSO in Ligeti

Chris Garlick, 2nd March

This final concert of the BBCSO’s Total Immersion day dedicated to György Ligeti, proved to be something a revelation, both in terms of the variety of the music and the quality of the performances.

*****

Battles won and drawn: Beethoven and Barry from the Britten Sinfonia

Matthew Rye, 22nd May

The latest concert in the Britten Sinfonia’s ongoing Beethoven symphony cycle also featured the London première of Gerald Barry’s combative Piano Concerto.

****1

Hodges and Currie with meditative Stockhausen at the Southbank

Danny Riley, 19th April

Two new music specialists revel in the sheer textural variation of Kontakte.

****1

Lines of beauty: Rihm and Bruckner from the BBCSO

Matthew Rye, 22nd February

Lothar Koenigs conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra in some highly horizontal-oriented Bruckner and the UK première of a genial piano concerto from Wolfgang Rihm with soloist Nicolas Hodges

****1

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Sam Wigglesworth

Sam Wigglesworth contributed reviews to Bachtrack from 2012 to 2014. He studied at King's College London and, after a brief period producing concerts at St John's Smith Square, began working at Faber Music in 2014. He was Artistic Director of the Principal Sound Festival in 2016 and 2018.