This concert was the British premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Tutuguri. I did not know the piece at all but very much liked its complexities and discontinuities. I guess when I booked I had been expecting something more exclusively percussion. This only came in the second part, after a quite long interval necessary to re-set the stage. However, the break struck me as a pity (albeit one of necessity).
The concert was recorded by Radio 3 and broadcast about two hours after the concert began, precluding the possibility for the audience to listen again on the radio. This seemed a pity and rather self-defeating. The Barbican was not exactly full and one could imagine a large proportion of the radio audience were there.
As an alternative youtube provides recordings of the Stuttgart radio orchestra playing part 1 and part 2
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