In the context of a diminishing Welsh landscape – about which there needs to be a concerted uproar – the success of Wales’s new music ensemble, which happens to call itself Uproar, is all the more important. Under conductor and artistic director Michael Rafferty, their presentation of György Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto – a piece described by the composer as one for 13 concertante soloists – underlined just what a dynamic force they have become.
Their programme opened with Hrím, written by Anna Thorvaldsdottir as a companion piece to the Ligeti: it unfolded with Thorvaldsdottir’s customary poise, its crystalline textures comparable to the hoarfrost of the old Icelandic title, the celeste giving glistening touches.
