
Generous, disciplined, written for exactly the player performing it — Aldeburgh’s world premiere doesn’t cower.

Nick Martin’s Maternal evokes Hepworth’s place in the UK’s cultural landscape — a concerto shimmering between prayer, tenderness and melancholy. Heard live, it resists earnestness and reveals a flawed, human character in a landscape both intimate and vast.

A weekend attending events at the friendliest classical music festival in the UK.