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8-24 June Aldeburgh Festival 2018
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1 Seventy-first Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts 8–24 June 2018
2
Contents Aldeburgh Festival 2018 celebrates
Britten and America. It also reflects 1948
– the remarkable period in post-war
4 Festival programme
British history when the festival began
36 Exhibitions
and when so much of what we now
40 The Pumphouse regard to be the backbone of our cultural
41 Bandstand on the Beach life was launched. In his centenary the
42 Snape Maltings music of Bernstein plays a significant
44 Seating plan part in the festival. Britten and Bernstein:
45 How to find us composers, pianists, conductors,
programme planners, educators, and
46 Booking details & access
major media figures were towering
47 Support our work
creative leaders, and are linked but rarely
48 Other places to stay met each other. They sailed against
50 Other places to eat prevailing winds and were celebrated
50 What else to do and revered everywhere, and here they
51 Other exhibitions can be heard side by side with many
connections that resonate across the
52 Supporters
festival. These links include Peter Grimes,
53 Acknowledgements
W.H. Auden, Revd Walter Hussey and
their composing friend Aaron Copland.
3 America is also represented by centrepiece of their performances. featured composer Michael Hersch and Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, resident flautist Claire Chase. Violinist Tamara Stefanovich, Cédric Tiberghien Patricia Kopatchinskaja is one of the and Pavel Kolesnikov are all featured, major creative forces of our day. In as are Mahler Chamber Orchestra, collaboration with the Ojai Festival, she violinists Alina Ibragimova and has played a significant part in curating Vilde Frang, The Sixteen and three the final days of the festival. Three BBC orchestras. Acclaimed singer living British composers from different Sir Bryn Terfel will make his Aldeburgh generations are featured with new debut to close the festival. work - Harrison Birtwistle, Simon Holt and Emily Howard, whose new opera The availability of £10 tickets for every is part of our opening night. Conductor performance is a new festival offer John Wilson is in residence for our and, with so much distinctive opening weekend. The French period programming, this line-up of concerts, instrument ensemble Le Concert exhibitions, talks, films, walks and Spirituel and its dynamic director events at The Pumphouse and much Hervé Niquet visit the festival for the loved Bandstand on the Beach, has first time and we look forward to something for everyone to enjoy. returning to Ely Cathedral for a choral and instrumental spectacular as the We hope you’ll join us in June.
4 Friday 8 June 7pm A striking programme encapsulating Like Britten, Bernstein found
the conflicts and contradictions of inspiration in the words of W.H. Auden.
Britten, Bernstein Britten’s wartime experience of The spirit of his era-defining Pulitzer-
and America I America, the relationships that took winning poem is brilliantly captured in
him there and echoes of home. His a symphony for piano and orchestra.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
wordless requiem for his parents is
John Wilson conductor Snape 7pm (ends approx. 9pm)
both a memorial and a pacifist protest.
Robert Murray tenor Tickets £38, £32, £24, £10
A new song cycle arrangement marries
Cédric Tiberghien piano 21 and under half price
some of the most sensuous music
Coach £3 (5.30pm)
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem 20’ Britten ever wrote with the full palette
Britten orch. Colin Matthews of orchestral colours.
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo 16’
(Aldeburgh Festival commission,
world premiere)
Copland Quiet City 10’
Bernstein Symphony No.2: The Age of
Anxiety 36’
5
6
Friday 8, Sunday 10 & Monday 11 June
To See
The Invisible
‘And then they found me guilty,
and then they pronounced me
invisible, for a span of one year’
Robert Silverberg, To See the Invisible Man
Friday 8 June 9.30pm Condemned for a ‘crime of coldness’ by ‘austerely sensuous and 7
an authoritarian regime, The Invisible is sensuously austere’
To See The Invisible cast adrift from society. All human Poet Sir Geoffrey Hill on Howard’s music
Emily Howard music interaction is outlawed. This life of
Britten Studio, Snape 9.30pm
Words by Selma Dimitrijevic after a isolation leads to strange, vicarious
(ends approx. 10.45pm)
short story by Robert Silverberg thrills and painful inner torment.
Tickets £25, £18, £10
Cast: Nicholas Morris (The Invisible), Yet, as the lonely exile draws to a close, 21 and under half price
Anna Dennis (The Other Invisible), it is not coldness but perilous empathy Coach £3 (8.30pm)
Anne Mason (Mother / Judge), with a fellow Invisible that risks
Research and development has been
Peter Savidge (Father / Brothel Owner), the cycle of exclusion beginning all
generously supported by Arts Council
Caryl Hughes (Sister), Daniel Norman, over again…
England, Snape Maltings, The Nicholas
Nathan Vale (Guards)
Emily Howard’s new opera, based on Boas Charitable Trust, The Royal
Richard Baker conductor a short story by renowned American Northern College of Music and
Dan Ayling director sci-fi writer Robert Silverberg, is a Christoph & Marion Trestler. Emily
Ana Inés Jabares-Pita designer claustrophobic study of isolation; a Howard is supported by PRS
Sally Ferguson lighting designer dark satire on social conventions; and Foundation’s Composers’ Fund.
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group a stark reminder of our cruelty to
The Concert Hall Café and Restaurant
outsiders. Howard’s music embraces
Aldeburgh Festival commission, will be open before the performance.
extremes – the eerie beauty of The
world premiere
Invisible’s secluded psychological
spaces set against the perpetual
motion of the World of Warmth.
8 Saturday 9 June 11am Saturday 9 June 3pm & 10pm They inject both air and weight, evoking
lofty grandeur and warm intimacy with
Orsino Ensemble Bach in Blythburgh sustained lines, expressive elasticity and
Adam Walker flute Phantasm viol consort a clarity that allows Bach’s contrapuntal
Nicholas Daniel oboe Sean Shibe guitar invention truly to take flight. They divide
Matt Hunt, James Burke clarinet the work between a pair of festival
3pm
Amy Harman bassoon concerts, each including music
Bach arr. Mozart Fugues K405 6’
Alec Frank-Gemmill horn originally written for lute performed by
Bach Lute Suite in A minor BWV 997 20’
James Baillieu piano one of today’s leading guitarists and
Bach The Art of Fugue (excerpts) 30’
framed by Mozart’s graceful
Janáček Mladi (‘Youth’) 18’
10pm arrangements of other Bach fugues,
Britten Movement for Wind Sextet 8’
Bach The Art of Fugue (excerpts) 27’ those unequivocally written for
Simon Holt Bagatelarañas 15’
Bach Lute Suite in E BWV 1006a 20’ keyboard.
Martinů Sextet for Piano and Winds 22’
Bach arr. Mozart Fugues K405 6’
Blythburgh Church
This is the first concert from Adam
Bach didn’t specify an exact 3pm (ends approx. 4pm)
Walker’s stellar line-up of leading wind
instrumentation for his mighty 10pm (ends approx. 11pm)
players. Janáček’s spirited folk-tinged
collection of fugues. But Phantasm’s Tickets £18, £15, £10 for each concert
sextet is a sparkling curtain-raiser that
performances make a compelling case or £30, £25, £18 for both
contrasts with the teenage Britten’s
for transporting the music back to the 21 and under half price
dark-hued lyricism. Martinů’s sextet is a
unique colours and textures of an Coach £3 (1.45pm) & £3 (coach A: 9pm
postcard from 1920s Paris, with the
instrumental combination that would from Aldeburgh; coach B: post-concert
syncopations and bluesy harmonies of
have been unfamiliar to the composer, from Snape)
jazz and ragtime. Simon Holt’s title is a
the viol consort.
hybrid of the Spanish words for ‘bagatelle’
and ‘cobwebs’, reflecting the music’s
playfulness and gossamer intricacy.
Aldeburgh Church 11am
(ends approx. 12.40pm)
Tickets £20, £16, £10
21 and under half priceSaturday 9 June 7pm Sunday 10 June 10.30am Sunday 10 June 4pm 9
Britten, Bernstein Festival Service To See The Invisible
and America II Aldeburgh Voices Emily Howard music
Ben Parry conductor Words by Selma Dimitrijevic after a
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
short story by Robert Silverberg
John Wilson conductor The opening weekend’s service draws
Pavel Kolesnikov piano local worshippers and festival visitors to Cast: Nicholas Morris (The Invisible),
Claire Chase flute the Parish Church of St Peter and St Anna Dennis (The Other Invisible),
Paul. The service is led by Reverend Anne Mason (Mother / Judge),
Britten Four Sea Interludes and
Mark Lowther and the guest preacher is Peter Savidge (Father / Brothel Owner),
Passacaglia from Peter Grimes 23’,
Reverend Sarah Lenton. The music Caryl Hughes (Sister), Daniel Norman,
Diversions for Piano Left Hand and
includes Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices and Nathan Vale (Guards)
Orchestra 30’ Bernstein Halil 16’
motets by the Americans Eric Whitacre
Copland Billy the Kid Suite 27’ Richard Baker conductor
and JAC Redford.
Dan Ayling director
Vast landscapes link Britten and Copland
Aldeburgh Church 10.30am Ana Inés Jabares-Pita designer
– cold ocean and sun-bleached prairie.
(ends approx. 12pm) Sally Ferguson lighting designer
Peter Grimes also unites Britten with
Free, no ticket required Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Bernstein, who conducted the American
premiere, and included the Sea See page 7 for details
Interludes in his last concert. Tremors
Britten Studio, Snape 4pm
and aftershocks of conflict are felt in
(ends approx. 5.15pm)
Britten’s ebullient tour de force for a
Tickets £25, £18, £10
pianist who lost his right arm in service
21 and under half price Coach £3 (2.30pm)
in World War I and Bernstein’s nocturne
in tribute to a fallen Israeli soldier. Pre-performance talk with members of
the creative team. Jerwood Kiln, Snape
Snape 7pm (ends approx. 9.10pm)
3pm. Free, but please book.
Tickets £35, £30, £23, £10
21 and under half price
Coach £3 (5.30pm)10
Sunday 10 June 7.30pm Monday 11 June 11.30am Monday 11 June 2.30pm 11
John Wilson Talk: The Spirit Film: Kind Hearts
Orchestra of ’48 and Coronets
John Wilson conductor Simon Heffer and Peter Hennessy Kind Hearts and Coronets 102’,
in conversation preceded by The Dim Little Island 11’
Bernstein Excerpts from West Side
Story, Wonderful Town, On the Town, ‘There is something distinctive and Introduced by Simon Heffer and
Candide, Peter Pan, Trouble in Tahiti, recognisable in English civilisation....’, Peter Hennessy
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue wrote George Orwell in 1940. ‘It has a
Peter Ustinov considered Kind Hearts
flavour of its own’. In this discussion,
Leonard Bernstein was perhaps twentieth and Coronets the ‘most perfect
critically acclaimed historians Simon
century music’s greatest all-rounder, achievement’ of Ealing Studios, ‘a film
Heffer and Peter Hennessy present the
and his Broadway shows helped to of exquisite construction and literary
social, political and cultural flavours of
redefine post-war musical theatre. The quality’. The British Film Institute
Britain in the late forties. It was an
JWO and a team of star singers bring included it at number 6 in its list of the
extraordinary post-war decade in which
their flair to an evening including an best 100 British films.
the NHS, the Arts Council and the BBC
extraordinary array of Broadway hits.
Third Programme were created - and The Dim Little Island is a haunting
‘Hearing the JWO at full power leaves during which numerous festivals, miniature directed by Humphrey
you buzzing with the kind of euphoria including Aldeburgh, were launched. Jennings, the Suffolk-born master
usually found only towards the bottom documentary film maker.
Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh 11.30am
of your second Martini’ The Spectator
(ends approx. 12.45pm) Both filmed in 1948, this double bill
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.40pm) Tickets £10 or £15 for both talk and film represents two snapshots of our island
Tickets £60, £45, £35, £10 21 and under half price (only for £10 - one a remarkably subversive black
21 and under half price Coach £3 (5.30pm) ticket) comedy and the other a melancholic
portrait.
Pre-performance talk with John
Wilson and Jamie Bernstein. Peter Aldeburgh Cinema 2.30pm
Pears Recital Room, Snape 6.15pm (ends approx. 4.45pm)
Free, but please book Tickets £10 or £15 for both talk and film12 Monday 11 – Friday 15 June 2.30pm Monday 11 June 7.30pm Monday 11 June 9.30pm
Festival To See The Invisible Goldberg Variations
Masterclasses: The Emily Howard music Melinda Maxwell oboe d’amore
21st Century Singer Words by Selma Dimitrijevic after a Clio Gould violin Jane Atkins viola
short story by Robert Silverberg Kate Gould cello
John Fisher piano
Julia Faulkner soprano Cast: Nicholas Morris (The Invisible), Simon Holt Llanto (para las chumberas)
Matthew Rose bass Anna Dennis (The Other Invisible), (Aldeburgh Festival commission,
Singers and pianists from the Anne Mason (Mother / Judge), world premiere) 7’
Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme Peter Savidge (Father / Brothel Owner), Bach arr. Sitkovetsky Goldberg
Caryl Hughes (Sister), Daniel Norman, Variations 65’
A stellar trio of tutors come together
Nathan Vale (Guards)
with exceptional young artists to A new chamber work for a wind
examine what it takes to ‘make it’ as a Richard Baker conductor instrument of the baroque proceeds
singer and artist in the 21st century. Dan Ayling director one of the pivotal works of that – or any
John Fisher is a legendary coach and Ana Inés Jabares-Pita designer – musical era. The art of transcription
Head of Music at the Metropolitan Sally Ferguson lighting designer can change our perceptions, uncover
Opera House and Julia Faulkner’s list of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group myriad new details – and reinforce the
students reads like the ‘who’s who’ of music’s greatness. Violinist Dimitry
See page 7 for details
international opera houses. Together Sitkovetsky’s evergreen arrangement of
with acclaimed bass and Britten-Pears Britten Studio, Snape 7.30pm (ends Bach’s iconic keyboard variations allows
alumnus Matthew Rose they offer approx. 8.45pm) us to look at a familiar work from a new
insights into the journey from young Tickets £25, £18, £10 angle. Simon Holt’s new quartet is an
artist to the international stage. 21 and under half price agitated little elegy that draws on the
Coach £3 (6.30pm) keening sound of the oboe d’amore so
Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape
often utilised by Bach in his sacred music.
2.30pm (ends approx. 5.30pm) The Concert Hall Café and Restaurant
Tickets £6 per session will be open before the performance. Aldeburgh Church 9.30pm
(ends approx. 10.50pm, no interval)
Tickets £18, £15, £10
21 and under half priceTuesday 12 June 11am Tuesday 12 June 4pm ‘Intimate and poetic, this is pianism 13
which delicately suggests rather
Film: A Tale of Cédric Tiberghien than making statements.’
Tanglewood: Peter Cédric Tiberghien piano BBC Music Magazine, Oct 2016
Grimes Reborn Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Britten Studio, Snape 4pm
Introduced by Humphrey Burton prepared piano 75’ (ends approx. 5.20pm)
Tickets £18, £15, £10
Britten was living in America when he John Cage’s captivating piano cycle
21 and under half price
first read Crabbe’s poem The Borough, was first performed in 1948, the year
Coach £3 (3pm)
the inspiration for Peter Grimes. In 1946, of the first Aldeburgh Festival. His
the young Leonard Bernstein conducted reimagination of the possibilities of the
the American premiere at Tanglewood, solo keyboard - simultaneously playful
the famous summer music school. and profound - continues to fascinate,
Filmed 50 years later, this film challenge and delight. Cage’s ingenious
documents the original Bernstein additions to the mechanism of the
performance, interwoven with scenes instrument spring endless sonic
from the 1996 anniversary production surprises. For Cédric Tiberghien, Cage is
under the baton of Seiji Ozawa. Behind an increasingly central creative figure.
the scenes footage, performer Having first performed what he calls
reminiscences and live concert excerpts this ‘extraordinary masterpiece’ as
are skilfully edited together in Barbara recently as 2016 he is already a
Willis Sweete’s prize-winning film. persuasive and dynamic interpreter.
Humphrey Burton’s introductory talk
explores the parallels and paradoxes in
the careers of Bernstein and Britten.
Aldeburgh Cinema 11am
(ends approx. 12.45pm)
Tickets £10
21 and under half price14 Tuesday 12 June 7.30pm Handel’s crisp rhythms, startling
Le Concert Music for the gear-changes and theatrical flourishes
are given full voice with an enlarged
Spirituel Royal Fireworks wind section, noble oboes and braying
Listening to the voices and horns and trumpets capturing the spirit
Le Concert Spirituel
period instrument orchestra of of raucous celebration, lavish splendour
Hervé Niquet conductor
Le Concert Spirituel under and royal pomp. More music for an
Hervé Niquet for the first time Charpentier Marches pour les occasion, the sweet-toned lilting
is an electrifying experience. trompettes (Te Deum) 6’ pastorales of Corelli’s ‘Christmas’
Their sound can be warm and Corelli Concerto grosso No.8 concerto provide delicious contrast.
rich or startlingly pungent. in G minor 15’
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.20pm)
They bring deep understanding Handel Water Music Suite I, II & III 45’;
Tickets £35, £30, £23, £10
and scholarly research and Music for the Royal Fireworks 17’
21 and under half price
excel in repertoire that may be Coach £3 (6pm)
The famed suites Handel wrote for
unfamiliar to British audiences.
outdoor performances have too often
Yet for all Niquet’s flamboyance, Pre-performance talk with Hervé
had their edges smoothed and wilder
he shapes and paces the Niquet. Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape
extremes tamed since they were
contrasts of this glorious music 6.30pm. Free, but please book
premiered in eighteenth century
exquisitely, in music solemn,
London. Not so under Hervé Niquet who
sensuous or spectacular. Their
recreates them with thrilling full-
Aldeburgh Festival debut offers
throttle fervour.
a fresh and dynamic approach
to familiar Handel, a polychoral
‘surround sound’ mass
conceived on a lavish scale, and
the ravishing sacred music of
their compatriot Charpentier,
austere and opulent.15
16 Wednesday 13 June from 9.30am Wednesday 13 June 7.30pm The Aldeburgh Festival returns to Ely
Cathedral for the first time in over fifty
Festival Walk I Italian Baroque years to present an extraordinary
Barham to Coddenham at Ely Cathedral multi-choir mass setting. Benevolo has
been little heard in modern times, until
We begin our walk at Claydon and Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet’s ensemble’s recent
Barham Church with its war memorial, Hervé Niquet conductor
championing of his richly textured and
a Henry Moore sculpture of the
Benevolo Mass: Si Deus pro nobis highly original sacred works.
Madonna and Child, before setting off
Interspersed with plainchant, and choral
on a rural meander across meadows and Ely Cathedral 7.30pm
and instrumental music by Monteverdi,
cornfields, passing the splendid (ends approx. 8.50pm, no interval)
Frescobaldi and Palestrina
Hemingstone Hall en route to the pretty Tickets £25, £20, £10
village of Coddenham. After lunch, we Orazio Benevolo’s mass is an 21 and under half price
visit Coddenham church, noted for its astonishing spectacle and a ravishing Coach £9 (5pm)
beautiful stained glass and churchyard listening experience, with eight choirs
with abundant wildflowers, before (each with their own conductor and
crossing the Shrubland estate where instrumental ensemble) arrayed around
ancient sweet chestnuts and fallow Ely Cathedral’s Octagon, submerging
deer can be seen. the audience under waves of polyphony.
Performed in a sequence alongside
Suitable clothing and footwear
sumptuous choral motets and
essential. Approx. 6 miles. Fairly
instrumental flourishes from his Italian
easy-going with several stiles.
musical forbears and leavened with the
Regrettably, no dogs permitted.
purity of plainchant, this is a
Tickets £25 including lunch and coach bewitching, extravagant highpoint of
Coaches from 9.30am the Italian baroque.
(departing from Moot Hall, Aldeburgh,
returning approx. 3.45pm in time for
the coach to Ely Cathedral)Thursday 14 June 11am Thursday 14 June 3pm This programme celebrates the project 17
so far. Varèse and the glittering
Film: Density 2036 propulsion of Steve Reich frame first
Something Wild Claire Chase flute European performances of recent
Levy Lorenzo sound works from an eclectic selection of
Directed by Jack Garfein (1961)
New Yorkers. It concludes with the
With score by Aaron Copland Steve Reich Vermont Counterpoint 9’
most recent commission, a suite drawn
Varèse Density 21.5 5’
This atmospheric independent film set from Marcus Balter’s operatic scale
And European premieres of music by
in 1960s New York is startlingly modern work for flute, electronics and the
Du Yun, Suzanne Farrin,
in its frank approach to the physical and community in which it’s performed –
Mario Diaz de Leon and Marcos Balter
emotional trauma of Mary Ann, a young the evocatively titled PAN.
college student who experiences a Virtuoso soloist, collaborator, educator
Britten Studio, Snape 3pm
brutal assault by a stranger, afterwards and curator Claire Chase is an
(ends approx. 4.10pm)
repressing her feelings of fear and inspirational trailblazer for her
Tickets £18, £15, £10
isolation. By turns a tale of vulnerability instrument and for new music of all
21 and under half price
and urban anonymity, this is a new kind styles. In 2013 she embarked on an epic
Coach £3 (2pm)
of film (underpinned by Copland’s fine commissioning and performance
score). It was influenced by the adventure, performing a brand new solo
risk-taking artists associated with the programme each year until 2036, the
New York Actors Studio, the beginning centenary of Varèse’s iconic Density 21.5
of the Method Acting approach which for solo flute.
was so radically to transform American
cinema. Gritty location and tense
interior scenes make it a masterpiece in
an emerging genre.
Aldeburgh Cinema 11am
(ends approx. 12.55pm)
Tickets £8
Not suitable for those under 12 years.18
Thursday 14 June 7.30pm Friday 15 June 11am Friday 15 June 3pm 19
Le Concert Spirituel Britten–Pears Tamara Stefanovich
Hervé Niquet conductor Young Artists Tamara Stefanovich piano
Charpentier In Assumptione Beata Alumni I Bach Aria variata alla maniera italiana 13’
Mariae Virginis 7’; In honorem Sancti Fleur Barron mezzo-soprano Copland Piano Variations 12’
Xaverij canticum 15’; Epithalame en Oddur Jónsson baritone Messiaen Cantéyodjayâ 13’
l’honneur du Duc de Bavière 30’; Jonathan Ware piano Ives Sonata No.1 37’
Te Deum 30’
Schubert Six Heine Lieder from The first of two piano recitals (see also
Overshadowed in his lifetime, the music Schwanengesang Pierre-Laurent Aimard 17 June)
of Charpentier is now seen as pivotal to Pfitzner Five Lieder Op. 9 celebrating the wildly original music of
the flowering of the French baroque. and songs by Schumann, Brahms and the father of American experimentalism,
Able to invoke ceremonial brilliance and Schubert Charles Ives. For Ives, transcendence was
hushed reverence within a few bars, it a matter of everyday life: and all music
Two outstanding emerging singers
brings the drama and mystery of could open the path to a new Jerusalem.
from Christoph Prégardien’s 2017
liturgical text to life in music almost Hymn tunes, folk songs and ragtime
masterclass course on the lieder of
operatic in scope. Le Concert Spirituel rhythms clash, argue and pray in his first
Schumann and Schubert return to
ends its residency by combining piano sonata. From its summit we survey
Aldeburgh. Their recital – with the 2018
sumptuous motets with his best known a musical landscape that finds common
Tunnard Young Artist Jonathan Ware –
work Te Deum, its instantly recognisable ground between Ives’s disciple Copland,
frames songs by both composers with
martial fanfares heralding a work of the controlled ecstasy of Messiaen and
the German Romanticism of Brahms
lavish opulence and exquisite – at the root of them all – the universal
and Pfitzner that was to follow, songs
contemplation. language of Bach. Stefanovich’s
both tragic and comic, including four
‘dazzlingly clear’ (The Guardian) virtuosity
Blythburgh Church 7.30pm beguiling duets.
unites these four singular voices.
(ends approx. 9.30pm)
Jubilee Hall 11am (ends approx. 1pm)
Tickets £25, £18, £10 Britten Studio, Snape 3pm
Tickets £16, £10
21 and under half price (ends approx. 4.50pm)
21 and under half price
Coach £3 (6.15pm) Tickets £25, £18, £10
21 and under half price Coach £3 (2pm)20 Friday 15 June 5.30pm Friday 15 June 7.30pm Saturday 16 June 4.30am
Hesse Students’ Belcea Quartet Feldman at Sunrise
Concert I Dvořák Quartet ‘American’ 30’ Ensemble Vide:
Janáček Quartet No. 1 Claire Chase flute
A concert given by students who
‘Kreutzer Sonata’ 18’ Anna D’Errico piano
assist with the day to day running of
Mozart Quartet in Bb K589 ‘Prussian’ 26’ Alexandre Babel percussion
the festival.
Over the last two decades the Belcea Feldman For Philip Guston 300’
The Pumphouse 5.30pm
Quartet has taken a commanding place
(ends approx. 6.30pm) ‘To sit through a performance of For
amongst contemporary string quartets.
Tickets £5 Philip Guston is to enter into a new
‘The intelligence and honesty of the
consciousness’ writes Alex Ross in The
playing was as impressive as its energy
Rest is Noise, and any performance of
and vehemence’ wrote The New York
Feldman’s five-hour memorial to his
Times of a recent performance, and it is
estranged friend demands commitment.
hard to think of qualities better suited
Cosmic in scope, but constructed from
to Janáček’s explosive quartet. But the
simple and alluring musical elements,
freshness of their approach, coupled
it’s a journey, says Ross, to ‘a far off
to a searching intelligence, yield
place that few travellers will chance
comparable insights in both Dvořák’s
upon’. Starting just before dawn, the
much-loved quartet and Mozart’s
audience, seated or lying on mattresses
brilliantly inventive work.
and cushions, encircles the performers,
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.15pm) leaving the music to work its wondrous
Tickets £27, £22, £18, £10 transformation.
21 and under half price
Britten Studio, Snape 4.30am
Coach £3 (6pm)
(ends approx. 9.30am)
Tickets £10 21 and under half price
The Concert Hall Café will be open for
breakfast following this performance.Saturday 16 June 12pm Saturday 16 June 4pm Saturday 16 June 7.30pm 21
Ibragimova & Masterclass Recital: Appalachian Spring
Tiberghien The 21st Century BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alina Ibragimova violin Singer Huw Watkins piano
Oliver Knussen conductor
Cédric Tiberghien piano Singers and pianists from the
Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme Copland Music for a Great City 24’
Mozart Violin Sonata in C major K303 12’
Philip Cashian The Book of Ingenious
Crumb Four Nocturnes (Night Music II) 9’ At the end of an intensive week of
Devices (world premiere) 25’
Mozart Violin Sonata in G major K379 18’ masterclasses and private coaching,
Feldman Structures 10’
Cage Six Melodies (1950) 14’ the participants on this course present
Copland Appalachian Spring 25’
Beethoven Violin Sonata ‘Spring’ 24’ their final recital.
Bold lines, primary colours and a
This is a long-standing and beautifully See page 12 for more details.
rhythmic energy that speaks plainly and
matched duo – ‘there is something to
Britten Studio, Snape 4pm without compromise – Copland's music
raise a smile in every single movement’
(ends approx. 6pm) has a personality that’s hard to ignore,
as was written of a recent Mozart
Tickets £10 whether he’s evoking a Pennsylvanian
recording. In Mozart and Beethoven
21 and under half price farm wedding or the urban canyons of
violin and keyboard are true equals; for
Coach £3 (3pm) Manhattan. In this arresting programme,
the American adventurers Cage and
Oliver Knussen pairs major Copland
Crumb equally so. Cage’s artless,
orchestral works with music by Feldman
weightless melodies conceal a
– a composer who took Copland’s
sophisticated interdependence between
all-American simplicity and refined it
performers, whilst Crumb weaves a
into a vision of the infinite – and a new
delicate latticework of extraordinary new
concerto by Philip Cashian, premiered
sounds in his shimmering night music.
by fellow composer Huw Watkins.
Aldeburgh Church 12pm
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.50pm)
(ends approx. 1.45pm)
Tickets £35, £30, £23, £10
Tickets £20, £16, £10
21 and under half price
21 and under half price
Coach £3 (6pm)22 Sunday 17 June 3pm Sunday 17 June 8pm Britten's carols, the modern madrigals
of his Gloriana Dances and Copland’s
Pierre-Laurent The Sixteen luminous setting of the Book of Genesis
Aimard Harry Christophers conductor mingle with – and echo – music from
Tudor England. Britten and Copland's
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Britten Hymn to Saint Cecilia 10’;
choral works, both sacred and profane,
Choral Dances from Gloriana 10’;
Beethoven Sonata Op.106 in Bb form a very different creative
Hymn to the Virgin 4’
‘Hammerklavier’ 44’ blossoming, but with a shared root.
Copland In the beginning 17’
Ives Piano Sonata No.2 ‘Concord’ 44’
Madrigals by Morley, Gibbons and Byrd ‘…wonderfully smooth sustained
Few pianists are better equipped to and sacred music by Sheppard, Byrd, textures, in which miraculously they
meet the immense technical and Tallis and Copland make every word clear at the same time’
emotional challenges of these massive The Guardian
Only connect: two composers
transcendental piano sonatas than
separated by the Atlantic, but united by Snape 8pm (ends approx. 9.50pm)
Pierre Laurent-Aimard. 'The humblest
a social conscience and a determination Tickets £35, £30, £23, £10
composer will not find true humility in
to speak honestly to their own time and 21 and under half price
aiming low' declared Ives. 'He must
place. Britten and Copland were close Coach £3 (6.30pm)
never be timid or afraid of trying to
musical friends, and their music opens
express that which he feels is far above
and closes this sequence of choral
his power to express'. No-one ever
works from across four centuries sung
accused either Ives or Beethoven of
by one of today’s leading choirs.
being a humble composer: and in these
pivotal works they strove to do nothing
less than the impossible, in music that
continues to defy all easy assumptions.
Snape 3pm (ends approx. 4.50pm)
Tickets £27, £22, £18, £10
21 and under half price
Coach £3 (2pm)23
24 Monday 18 June 3pm Monday 18 June 7.30pm friends and collaborators: a major
two-piano work written for Tamara
Michael Barenboim Knussen & Stefanovich and Pierre-Laurent Aimard,
Michael Barenboim violin Festival Ensemble and the first British performance of
Three Moth Songs, settings of the
Bach Sonata No.3 in C major 23’ Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble
poetry of the eminent American Robin
Michael Hersch the weather and Oliver Knussen conductor
Blaser. Oliver Knussen (dedicatee of one
landscape are on our side 20’ Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano
of these songs) directs a hand-picked
(UK premiere) Tamara Stefanovich piano
ensemble. There’s also new music by
Bach Partita No.3 in E major 18’ Claire Booth soprano, narrator
Vassos Nicolaou (a wedding gift for the
Johannes Borowski Up and Down
Feldman Mary Anne’s Theme 3’ Aimard-Stefanovich duo) and two
(world premiere) 9’
Debussy arr. Boulez Chansons de Bilitis 18’ rarities; Debussy’s narrated mini-drama
Bartók Sonata for solo violin 26’
Harrison Birtwistle 3 Moth Songs 12’ sets prose-poems to music of ravishing
Bach throws his light, by turns dazzling (UK premiere of complete work) sensuality, and a rarely-heard collection
and warmly radiant, over this UK recital Vassos Nicolaou Frames for piano duet of tributes compiled to mark Debussy’s
debut from Michael Barenboim, though 09’ (UK premiere) death 100 years ago yields alluring
Bartók’s fusion of virtuosity and Bartók, Dukas, Goosens, Malipiero and piano miniatures from no less than
heart-on-sleeve emotion brings no easy Stravinsky works from Le Tombeau de Bartók and Stravinsky amongst others.
resolution. Fragments of letters written Debussy 15’
Britten Studio, Snape 7.30pm
by the Polish writer a artist Bruno Birtwistle Keyboard Engine,
(ends approx. 9.20pm)
Schulz lie unseen behind Michael Construction for Two Pianos 15’
Tickets £25, £18, £10
Hersch’s new work. Barenboim also (Aldeburgh Festival commission,
21 and under half price
gives the first performance of music by world premiere)
Coach £3 (6.30pm)
his close friend and collaborator
In his eighties Harrison Birtwistle is as
Johannes Borowski. The Concert Hall Café and Restaurant
uncompromising, poetic and
will be open before the performance.
Aldeburgh Church 3pm provocative as ever, and any new work
(ends approx. 5.20pm) from him commands attention. This
Tickets £20, £16, £10 concert has two, performed by close
21 and under half priceTuesday 19 June 11am Tuesday 19 – Friday 22 June 2.30pm Tuesday 19 June 3pm 25
Hesse Lecture: Festival Arias and Barcarolles
Sarah Churchwell Masterclasses: Lucy Schaufer mezzo-soprano
The meanings of Americanism Classical Song Marcus Farnsworth baritone
Christopher Glynn, Lana Bode piano
Julia Faulkner soprano
Sarah Churchwell, author, literary prize
Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo-soprano Britten Cabaret Songs 12’
judge, journalist and one of the UK’s
Matthew Rose bass John Fisher piano John Musto Shadow of the Blues 8’
most prominent academics is Professor
Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano Bernstein Arias and Barcarolles 31’
of American Literature and Public
Singers and pianists from the Songs by Michele Brourman and
Understanding of the Humanities, and
Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme Randy Newman
Director of the Being Human festival at
the School of Advanced Study at the Ahead of their recital on 23 June, Songs of love: fresh and faded, thwarted
University of London. She is a internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano and jaded. Bernstein’s allusions to family
distinguished writer, particularly on Anne Sofie von Otter and Kristian and friends make Arias and Barcarolles
American literature, culture, and life Bezuidenhout, one of today’s most a deeply personal song cycle from this
and makes regular TV appearances on versatile keyboard players, join this man of the theatre. Britten approached
BBC current affairs programmes. festival’s trio of course directors. popular song from a different place but
Together they coach a cohort of his cabaret numbers are far from stiff
In this lecture, she examines the current
international young artists with a focus little parodies; heard afresh, they are
state of American culture and compares
on the classical era, including Mozart, sweetly ardent musical love letters,
it to the wartime period when Britten
Haydn and Beethoven. Anne Sofie von giddy with excitement and angst. Lucy
lived there, drawing on films, literature,
Otter will teach the public masterclasses Schaufer, as at home in musical theatre
and political journalism to discuss the
on Wednesday 20 & Thursday 22 June. as on the opera stage, completes this
meanings of ‘Americanism’.
song-circle with a set from
Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape
Aldeburgh Cinema 11am contemporary singer-songwriters.
2.30pm (ends approx. 5.30pm)
(ends approx. 12.30pm)
Tickets £6 per session Britten Studio, Snape 3pm
Tickets £14, £10
(ends approx. 4.45pm)
21 and under half price
Tickets £20, £16, £10
21 and under half price Coach £3 (2pm)26 Tuesday 19 June 7.30pm
Chiaroscuro Quartet Festival Walk II
Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
& Tiberghien with Fidelity Cranbrook and others at
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Cédric Tiberghien piano
Schumann Fantasy Op.17 30’
Mendelssohn String Quartet Op.12 23’
Schumann Piano Quintet 29’
Mendelssohn and Schumann wrote some
Detail from image provided by the Britten–Pears Foundation (www.brittenpears.org)
of the high points of the German Romantic
chamber music repertoire. Period-
instrument strings here plunge us into
a startling sound world, of soft-edged
lyricism and rhythmic vitality. With
Tiberghien’s period piano – mellow,
brittle, nimble – it allows us to hear
Schumann’s quintet with fresh ears.
Like his poetic, radical solo Fantasy, it is
inspired by his virtuoso pianist wife
Clara. The piece’s first pianist however
was Mendelssohn, whose quartet
provides the ideal foil, with music of fiery
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turbulence framing some of his loveliest
instrumental songs without words.
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Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.25pm)
Tickets £27, £22, £18, £10
21 and under half price Coach £3 (6pm)Wednesday 20 June from 10am Wednesday 20 June 7.30pm Thursday 21 June 11am 27
Festival Walk II Mahler Chamber Film: Mr Copland
The Spirit of ’48 Orchestra Comes to Town
The walk takes us to the grounds of Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin/director Introduced by the director Barrie Gavin
Great Glemham House, home of Fidelity
Stravinsky Suite: The Soldier’s Tale 25’ This 1964 BBC Arts documentary
Countess of Cranbrook, founder chair of
Bartók Divertimento for Strings 19’ follows Aaron Copland’s visit to London
the Aldeburgh Festival. We also visit
Ligeti Violin Concerto 28’ as guest conductor of the LSO for the
White House Farm, where owner Jason
premiere of his piece Music for a Great
Gathorne-Hardy (grandson of Fidelity As one of this festival’s featured artists,
City. Re-imagined from his film score for
Cranbrook) hosts the annual Alde Valley Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s first
Something Wild, this absorbing film
Festival. Jason grew up on tales of the programme with the Mahler Chamber
follows the composer from early
early Aldeburgh Festivals from his Orchestra is typically stimulating; from
rehearsals to the Royal Festival Hall
grandmother and shares them during Stravinsky’s dark wartime fairy tale and
stage, revealing a thoughtful man
the day. By kind permission of the Earl Bartók’s premonition of conflict, to
clearly enjoying his celebrity. With
and Countess of Cranbrook and family. Ligeti’s bittersweet reinvention of the
footage of backstage meetings and
great Hungarian violin tradition. The
Suitable clothing and footwear press lunches intercut with interviews
three composers all witnessed their
essential. Approx. 4.5 miles. Easy-going. in a speeding open topped car, Barrie
personal roots being ripped up violently.
Regrettably, no dogs permitted. Gavin’s film captures a flavour of
And each took the materials of folklore
swinging 60s London as Mr Copland is
Tickets £22 including lunch to explore, to warn, and to create new
wined and dined by the arts
Meet White House Farm from 10am (ends voices from lost worlds.
establishment of the day.
approx. 3.30pm) Gt Glemham, IP17 1LS
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.25pm)
(www.aldevalleyspringfestival.co.uk) Aldeburgh Cinema 11am
Tickets £35, £30, £23, £10
Free parking. Please contact the (ends approx. 12.15pm)
21 and under half price Coach £3 (5.30pm)
Box Office if you need transport. Tickets £8
Pre-performance talk
See page 51 for exhibitions at
with Patricia Kopatchinskaja
White House Farm
Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape
6.30pm. Free, but please book28 Thursday 21 June 4pm Thursday 21 June 7.30pm Michael Hersch is a dizzyingly virtuosic
interpreter of extracts from his own
Aldeburgh Voices Michael Hersch monumental piano work The Vanishing
Ben Parry conductor & MCO Pavilions. It has been described as ‘a
Alumni from the Britten–Pears Young shattered song cycle without words’,
Michael Hersch piano
Artist Programme soloists and even when words are missing,
Ah Young Hong, Kiera Duffy soprano
Hersch’s music flows out into the space
Walton Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis Gary Louie alto saxophone
they leave; by turns violent, fragile,
(‘Chichester Service’) 6’ Amy Yang piano
and heartbreakingly direct. In the
Britten Rejoice in the Lamb 16’ Members of Mahler Chamber Orchestra
concluding work, words are very much
Finzi Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice 14’
Michael Hersch of ages manifest present. It is an expansive new chamber
Bernstein Chichester Psalms 22’
(extracts) (UK premiere) 10’; cantata based on letters and emails
‘Bless God in the dance, dance, dance!’ The Vanishing Pavilions (extracts) 20’; from a now-departed friend as she
Rejoice in the Lamb is like nothing else I hope we get a chance to visit soon 60’ confronted cancer – a clear-sighted but
in all choral music: a deliriously playful (Aldeburgh Festival commission, uncompromisingly emotional response
prayer, offered up by a visionary poet in European premiere) to a poignant correspondence.
music of irresistible originality and wit.
Britten Studio, Snape 7.30pm
And if Bernstein’s exultant psalms and
(ends approx. 9.25pm)
music by Walton and Finzi that precedes
Tickets £25, £18, £10
it all share a similar spirit, that is because
21 and under half price
they were all commissioned by the same
Coach £3 (6.30pm)
inspirational clergyman, the Revd. Walter
Hussey. Poetry by Auden – another The Concert Hall Café and Restaurant
Hussey commission – frames a vibrant will be open before the performance.
choral showcase for Snape Maltings’ choir.
Orford Church 4pm
(ends approx. 5.30pm)
Tickets £18, £15, £10
21 and under half price
Coach £3 (3pm)29
30 Friday 22 June 11am Seven world premieres are prefaced by Friday 22 June 3pm
Harrison Birtwistle’s playful perpetual
Britten–Pears motion and enveloped in the velvety
Piatti Quartet
Young Artists stillness and ghostly apparitions Haydn Quartet in C Op.33 No.3
Alumni II conjured by Abrahamsen and ‘The Bird’ 20’
Dallapiccola in their night music. Emily Howard Afference 15’
Jonathan Berman conductor
Simon Holt String Quartet No.4
Instrumentalists from the Britten Studio 11am (ends approx. 1pm)
‘Cloud House’ 9’ (Aldeburgh Festival
Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme Tickets £16, £10
commission, world premiere)
21 and under half price
Birtwistle Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Beethoven String Quartet in F minor
Coach £3 (10am)
Perpetuum 10’ Op.95 ‘Serioso’ 22’
Dallapiccola Piccola Musica Notturna 8’
Wigmore Hall competition winner the
Hans Abrahamsen Winternacht 13’ Friday 22 June 5.30pm
Piatti Quartet has an inquisitive thirst
Berio Berceuse for György Kurtág 2’
And world premieres of short works by
Hesse Students’ for the new. Here, the explosive energy
Patrick Friel, Joseph Howard, Concert II and ingenuity of music by the founding
fathers of the string quartet Beethoven
Patrick Jones, Joel Järventausta,
A concert given by students who and Haydn are placed alongside two
Ryan Latimer, Lara Poe and
assist with the day to day running of recent works. As so often for Emily
Angela Slater
the Festival. Howard, science provides a springboard
A celebration of Oliver Knussen and for her musical exploration. Simon
The Pumphouse, Aldeburgh 5.30pm
Colin Matthews’ flagship Contemporary Holt’s Aldeburgh Festival commission is
(ends approx. 6.30pm)
Composition and Performance course inspired by the trinkets and artefacts left
Tickets £5
at Snape Maltings is a fitting and potent untouched for decades in an abandoned
blend of new music by emerging new farmhouse, the ‘Cloud House’ of the title.
generation of composers alongside
Orford Church, Orford 3pm
works by musical figureheads.
(ends approx. 4.45pm)
Tickets £18, £15, £10
21 and under half price
Coach £3 (2pm)Friday 22 June 7.30pm ‘Classical music is like a ship’, Patricia Friday 22 June 10pm 31
Kopatchinskaja has said, ‘and everyone
Bye-Bye Beethoven is standing at the stern and looking at
Written in Fire
Mahler Chamber Orchestra how nice it was where we came from. Rakhi Singh, Simmy Singh violins
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin & director But no one dares to go onto the bow Ruth Gibson viola
Jorge Sanchez-Chiong turntables to see what is coming.’ This most Ashok Klouda cello
Maria Ursprung scenic designer refreshingly open-minded musician is
Rakhi Singh and Vessel co-creators
Jonas Link video projection constantly looking for new directions.
Her staged concert is a voyage through A collaboration inspired by Janáček’s
Ives The Unanswered Question 6'
revolutionary voices that shaped and string quartet Intimate Letters with a
Haydn Symphony No.45 ‘Farewell’
redefined music from Bach to the memorised performance of the piece
(last movement) 8’
present day. But with Kopatchinskaja followed by the premiere of a new work
Cage Once upon a Time (Living Room
at the helm it steers a fascinatingly written by a classical violinist and a
Music) 2’
unorthodox course. Featuring pioneering electronic musician. ‘The
Bach Chorale: Es ist genug 2’
orchestral performances (including Janáček has a powerful urgency’ says
György Kurtág Ligatura-Message
Beethoven’s towering concerto, a Vessel ‘driven by an obsessive desire
to Frances-Marie (‘The answered
signature piece for her) and that gives it a punk-ish irreverence’.
unanswered question’) 4’
collaborations with video and sound With the performers initially placed in
Beethoven Violin Concerto 45’
designers, it is a gripping portrait of one the centre of the room, the audience is
Jorge Sanchez-Chiong Overclockers 8’
of today’s leading performers and her drawn close to the drama. The
bold and imaginative curatorial flair. combination of acoustic instruments
and electronics then scatters sound to
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 8.50pm)
all corners of a darkened Britten Studio,
Tickets £35, £30, £23, £10
enveloping us in a contemporary response
21 and under half price
to a ground-breaking masterpiece.
Coach £3 (6pm; coach A: return 9pm;
coach B: return 11pm after Written in Fire) Britten Studio, Snape 10pm
(ends approx. 11pm)
Tickets £10
21 and under half price32
Saturday 23 June 11am Saturday 23 June 3pm Saturday 23 June 7pm 33
Anne Sofie von Piatti Quartet From the New World
Otter & Kristian & Friends BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Bezuidenhout Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy piano
Mark Wigglesworth conductor
Vilde Frang violin
Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo-soprano
Stravinsky Three Pieces for Quartet 6’;
Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano Emily Howard Magnetite 10’;
Concerto for Two Pianos 19’
sphere (UK premiere) 5’
Songs by Mozart, Schubert and Britten Mazurka elegiaca 7’;
Britten Violin Concerto 31’
Lindblad and piano music by Schubert Introduction and Rondo alla Burlesca 9’;
Dvořák Symphony No.9 ‘From the
Quartet No.1 26’
Even a songwriter as original as New World’ 40’
Schubert had his influences: ‘Immortal Auden characterised the middle decades
The final orchestral concert of this year’s
Mozart’, he confessed to his diary, of the twentieth century as an ’age of
festival returns to Britten and America.
‘How many intimations of a better life anxiety’, but the creative minds of
Dvořák's symphony was conceived in
have you left in our souls!’ Together, Stravinsky and the young Britten struck
the streets of New York, and Britten’s
Anne Sofie von Otter and Kristian sparks in the gathering gloom. Three
Violin Concerto, a musical storm-
Bezuidenhout have devised a quirky and distinctive experiments for
warning, premiered in the same city in
Schubertiade with a distinctive accent; piano duo form the core of this
the dark days of 1940. It is performed
one that finds space for Mozart’s own programme, while the Piatti Quartet
by Gramophone award-winner Vilde
exquisitely-wrought songs as well as frames them with two musical
Frang making her festival debut. In
the solo piano pieces in which Schubert harbingers of new, if troubled, worlds:
2007, Emily Howard’s breakthrough
expanded his vision, and places them Stravinsky’s three miniatures from 1914
orchestral work Magnetite announced
alongside the neglected romantic lieder (originally for piano duet), and Britten’s
the arrival of one of the most potent
of the ‘Swedish Schubert’ Adolf Lindblad. quartet - written in wartime America
voices in 21st century British music.
and described by the composer David
Aldeburgh Church 11am
Matthews as ‘fiercely happy’. Snape 7pm (ends approx. 8.55pm)
(ends approx. 1pm)
Tickets £35, £30, £23, £10
Tickets £25, £18, £10 Britten Studio, Snape 3pm (ends approx.
21 and under half price Coach £3 (5.30pm)
21 and under half price 4.45pm) Tickets £18, £15, £10
21 and under half price Coach £3 (2pm) Restaurant open pre-/post-performance.34 Saturday 23 June 9.30pm Sunday 24 June 12pm Sunday 24 June 3pm
Patricia Masterclass Recital: Sir Bryn Terfel
Kopatchinskaja Classical Song Sir Bryn Terfel bass-baritone
& Family Singers and pianists from the
Malcolm Martineau piano
with Emilia Kopatchinskaja violin Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme Schubert Songs
Viktor Kopatchinski cimbalom Brahms Four Serious Songs
The culmination of a week of
Amy Yang piano Maria Krykov double bass Copland Old American Songs (selection)
masterclasses and private coaching on
Britten Folk Songs (selection)
Ravel Tzigane 10’ György Kurtág Duos 10’ Classical Song, held for a small number
Enescu Violin Sonata No.3 28’ of the best of the next generation's Sir Bryn Terfel’s powers of vocal
And folk music from Moldova international young artists by some of characterisation are familiar to every
the world's greatest teachers and opera-goer. But those powers extend
Patricia Kopatchinskaja is joined by
performers. The focus of the recital will into the more concentrated world of
her parents – former members of the
be songs by Mozart, Haydn and lieder too: Terfel is ‘not afraid to take us
Moldovan national state folk ensemble
Beethoven and their contemporaries. right into his interpretations’, said
– to play the irresistible music of their
Gramophone of his Schubert. Malcolm
homeland. It's an instrumental tradition Britten Studio, Snape 12pm
Martineau has collaborated regularly
whose rapid shifts, constant syncopations (ends approx. 2pm)
with Terfel throughout his career, and
and complex cross-rhythms seem to tug Tickets £10
it’s hard to imagine a more sympathetic
the carpet away from under your feet 21 and under half price
partner in a programme that ranges from
even as you dance on it. It forms Coach £3 (11am)
Schubert and Brahms through the
an illuminating framework for folk
festival’s American theme, ending with
influenced classical violin works, from
Britten’s folk settings.
the gypsy swagger of Ravel’s Tzigane to
Enescu’s devilishly potent sonata. Snape 3pm (ends approx. 4.50pm)
Tickets £70, £55, £40, £10
Britten Studio, Snape 9.30pm
21 and under half price Coach £3 (1pm)
(ends approx. 11.10pm)
Tickets £18, £15, £10 The Concert Hall Café and Restaurant
21 and under half price will be open for lunch. Please book.35
36 Saturday 9 – Sunday 24 June
Exhibitions Tom Hammick:
Lunar Voyage
On view at the Peters Pears Gallery is
the latest exhibition by painter and
printmaker Tom Hammick. Presented as
a narrative cycle of 17 woodcut prints,
Lunar Voyage is a fictional odyssey,
conjuring a metaphorical escape from
earth in pursuit of freedom and isolation
on another planet. Winner of the V&A
Prize at the 2016 International Print
Biennale, Hammick will be in residence
in the Tack Room, developing new work
in response to the 71st Aldeburgh
Festival. In the Garage Gallery, his studio
assistants will provide a behind-the-
scenes look at the printmaking process.
‘Hammick’s colorful visions send viewers
to the moon’ Village Voice, New York, 2017
Exhibition: Peter Pears Gallery
Terrestrial © Tom Hammick and Garage Gallery, Aldeburgh
Courtesy of Flowers Gallery all rights reserved Bridgeman Images, 2017 10am to 5pm daily
Residency: Tack Room, Snape,
times vary
Talk: Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape
Saturday 23 June, 5pm – see p.39Friday 8 - Sunday 24 June 37
Dennis Creffield:
East Anglian
Cathedrals
‘... the best things of their kind since
Mondrian's church facades’ RB Kitaj
In 1987, commissioned by the Arts
Council to draw all 26 medieval
cathedrals of England, Dennis Creffield
embarked on an epic 10,000-mile
journey around England: “No artist has
ever before drawn all the English
medieval cathedrals - not even Turner.
I’ve dreamed of doing so since I was a
student.”
As the Aldeburgh Festival returns to Ely
Cathedral, this selection of Creffield’s
acclaimed charcoal drawings celebrates
the splendour of East Anglia’s
cathedrals.
Concert Hall Gallery 10am
Dennis Creffield drawing Peterborough Cathedral
(10.30am Sunday) to the end of the
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