Rhian Samuel – Emerging (Lightly) Ref. Y244

Concert Review

Mobius
22 March 2008
Wigmore Hall

But only Rhian Samuel's Emerging (Lightly) struck me as having enough musical argument to grip the brain as well as tickle the ear. Here the viola was the still centre of a quicksilver polyphonic whirl, before intoning a haunting folk-like tune over an oasis of calm G major. The impression was of a serene character quelling fractious colleagues. Intriguing and stimulating, rather than merely pleasant and inoffensive.

Richard Morrison, Times, Wednesday 26 March 2008