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7 – 23 June 2019
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1 Seventy-second Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts 7–23 June 2019 Artists in Residence: Barbara Hannigan Thomas Larcher Mark Padmore
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Contents Three Artists in Residence each curate
a part of Aldeburgh Festival 2019. The
excitingly individual voice of Austrian
4 Festival programme
composer Thomas Larcher is featured
40 Exhibitions
across the festival, with his opera
44 The Pumphouse The Hunting Gun receiving its UK premiere.
45 Bandstand on the Beach Festival favourite, outstanding tenor
46 Snape Maltings Mark Padmore performs in seven
48 Seating plan concerts and leads our Poetry and Music
series. One of the world’s most
49 How to find us
charismatic performers, Barbara Hannigan
50 Booking details & access
appears as soloist, conductor, narrator,
51 Support our work recitalist and mentor to the singers from
52 Other places to stay her own young artist programme.
54 Other places to eat Further residents include pianist
54 What else to do Stephen Hough, baritone Roderick
55 Other exhibitions Williams, composer-conductor
56 Supporters Ryan Wigglesworth and cellist
57 Acknowledgements Alisa Weilerstein, and a three-concert
return by popular demand from Belgian
early music ensemble Vox Luminis.
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We present performances by an array There are premieres by composers
of leading artists and ensembles, including including Charlotte Bray, Caterina di Cecca,
the BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of Edmund Finnis, Joanna Lee, Nico Muhly,
Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Frederik Neyrinck and Freya Waley-Cohen,
Tenebrae, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, while we also invite you to try radical
Elizabeth Kenny and Paul Lewis. performance art from Bastard
Assignments, outdoor graffiti-style
This year our two hugely popular
animated opera in Drive-by Shooting,
week-long series of masterclasses
and new Listening Walks which explore
are led respectively by Mark Padmore
the sounds of our natural environment.
and Antonio Pappano, one of the
world’s leading conductors. Our Visual Art programme includes
exhibitions by renowned war artist
We present a tribute to Oliver Knussen,
John Keane and BP Portrait Award winner
who died soon after our last festival -
Stuart Pearson Wright. All this plus walks,
one of the UK’s most brilliant musicians
talks, films, exhibitions, non-classical
and a key figure in shaping the Aldeburgh
events at The Pumphouse fringe, and
Festival as it is today. Knussen’s
free music every lunchtime at the
pieces are performed in many events
Bandstand on the Beach.
and we also present the debut
performances of a new ensemble – We look forward to welcoming you
the Knussen Chamber Orchestra. in June.
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Friday 7 & Sunday 9 June
The
Hunting
Gun
‘A clear, powerful text, some striking
imagery and a luminous score of great
beauty and originality ensure this
opera’s success’ The Observer
Friday 7 June 7.30pm Thomas Larcher’s highly-acclaimed first Larcher writes: ‘When I read the story 5
opera is based on a best-selling post-war of The Hunting Gun for the first time,
The Hunting Gun Japanese novella, a universal story of I was immediately captured by its
Thomas Larcher music deception of others and of ourselves. timelessness. It addresses questions
Words by Friederike Gösweiner encountered and recognised by
A poet passes a hunter while climbing
after a novella by Yasushi Inoue absolutely everyone involved in
a mountain and publishes a poem about
relationships with other individuals,
Cast: Samuel Boden, Peter Schöne, the hunter’s lonely, haunted expression.
myself included, such as whether to
Sarah Aristidou, Giulia Peri and The Hunter happens to read the poem
stay or leave, speak out or stay silent,
Olivia Vermeulen and recognises himself in it. He sends
hold on or let go.’
the author three letters: from his wife,
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
his lover and her daughter. Snape 7.30pm
Karl Markovics director
(no interval, ends approx. 9.15pm)
Katharina Wöppermann designer Three letters by three women to one
Tickets £40, £32, £27, £10
Bernd Purkrabek lighting designer man become a gripping fable retold in
Under 30s half price
Knussen Chamber Orchestra language of stark poetic simplicity as
Coach £3 (5.30pm)
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble the central figure helplessly observes
the unfolding tragedy, all the while Pre-performance talk with the
Sung in German with English surtitles
clasping his gun that ‘presses the creative team. Peter Pears Recital
UK premiere
whole burden deep into the lonely Room 6.30pm. Free, but please book.
man’s body and soul.’
The Hunting Gun was commissioned
As befits its source material, the and originally produced by the
opera’s action is often understated Bregenzer Festspiele, Austria.
and stylised, set amid a ravishing yet
fragile backdrop of paper and the
subtly shifting play of light. It is from
the orchestral pit that the drama and
Olivia Vermeulen and Sarah Aristidou in the
turbulence of human emotion and world premiere production of The Hunting Gun
interaction plays out, with a score of at Bregenzer Festspiele 2018
luminous beauty and ferocious intensity. Photo © Anja Koehler / andereart.de
6 Friday 7 June 10pm Saturday 8 June 11am Saturdays & Sundays from 8 June
BBC Radio 3 Castalian Quartet Listening Walks
Poetry Evening Haydn Quartet Op.76 No.2 in D minor 23’ Exploring Snape Maltings’ stunning
Edmund Finnis Aloysius (Aldeburgh landscape and wildlife, Listening Walks
Radio 3 hosts a special evening of
Festival commission, UK premiere) 16’ provide a meeting point for all the
poetry – with readings and performance
Britten Quartet No.2 31’ site’s visitors, from nature lovers to
which explore the essence of poetry’s
concert-goers. Guided by sound artist
relationship with music, and traces the All quartet writers and players trace
and field recording professional Mike
way that the literary and the musical their lineage back to Haydn. The
Challis, the walks invite participants to
have been intertwined for Benjamin Castalian Quartet’s intuitive, unaffected
take part in an hour of intense listening
Britten and a host of other composers. musicianship is perfectly placed to
as we walk along the bank of the River
capture his energy and intricacies.
Britten Studio, Snape 10pm Alde, alternating between silent
(ends approx. 11pm) Nowhere is Britten’s debt to Purcell listening and discussions of what has
Tickets £10 more openly expressed than in his been heard.
Under 30s half price second quartet. Yet for all its stylistic
Please wear suitable clothing and
references, this is radiant, richly original
footwear. Two miles, fairly easy going.
music that often seems hewn from
Sorry, no dogs allowed.
Friday 21 & Saturday 22 June the same rock as Peter Grimes just
events 4pm till late months earlier. There is emotional From Snape Maltings Visitor Centre
The Pumphouse intensity and hints of the past too in Saturday 8, 15 & 22 June; Sunday 9,
Finnis’ quartet, its languorously shifting 16 & 23 June at 11.30am & 2.30pm
The alternative Aldeburgh
melodic patterns circling round a Byrd (walks last approx. 1 hour)
Festival. See p.44 for more
hymn tune. Tickets £6
information.
Aldeburgh Church 11am
(ends approx. 12.45pm)
Tickets £21, £16, £10
Under 30s half price
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8 Saturday 8 June 3pm
Poetry and Music Poetry and Music: Thomas Larcher
Mark Padmore believes that The Holy Sonnets ‘one of the few current
musicians and audiences can
gain a richer experience of
of John Donne composers whose work sounds
like no-one else’s … his
songs by thinking more closely Mark Padmore tenor extraordinary, arresting,
about the words set. Over the Andrew West piano communicative music is one of
course of four Poetry and Music With Lavinia Greenlaw poet this century’s wonders.’
events, writer, broadcaster and Introduced by Kate Kennedy The Times
performer Kate Kennedy is Britten The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Born in 1963, Austrian composer
joined by leading poets Patience
When Britten set nine poems by Donne and pianist Thomas Larcher
Agbabi, Lavinia Greenlaw, Don
in 1945, he had recently visited the newly combines extended performance
Paterson and Fiona Sampson to
liberated concentration camp at techniques with contemplative
discuss the texts by Blake,
Bergen-Belsen. While that harrowing harmonies – fascinated by the
Donne, Hardy and Soutar set by
experience undoubtedly affected the freedom of contemporary
Britten in his song cycles. The
emotional atmosphere of these composition and at the same
discussions are followed by
meditations on death and repentance, time responsive to tradition.
performances from Padmore,
Roderick Williams and pianist the overall feeling is of an almost The winner of the prestigious
Andrew West. feverish religious ecstasy. With a Fondation Prince Pierre de
high-flown musical language that Monaco Composition Prize in
seems to owe much to his idol Purcell, 2018, Larcher has said about his
this is one of Britten’s most vocally work: ‘My roots lie in decades
elaborate and sophisticated song-cycles. of embedding the music and
Britten Studio, Snape 3pm formal ideas of the classics.
(no interval, ends approx. 4.15pm) My music is communicative:
Tickets £18, £15, £10 it challenges the attentive
Under 30s half price listener but is meant to be
Coach £3 (2pm) readily intelligible in concert.’Saturday 8 June 7pm Haydn’s Sonata provides a strong From Saturday 8 June 9.30pm 9
contrast with its gleaming brilliance and
Paul Lewis lightness of touch, while Festival Artist
Drive-by Shooting
Paul Lewis piano in Residence Thomas Larcher approaches Brian Irvine music
his Aldeburgh commission with similar written and directed by John McIlduff
Haydn Sonata in E minor Hob XVI: 34 15’
questions to those raised by the Diabellis:
Thomas Larcher Movement for Piano Drive-by Shooting is a short video and
(Aldeburgh Festival commission, ‘What is a thought, an idea, an invention? sound installation blending opera,
world premiere) 10’ street art and animation. It appears as a
Where does the stream of developments
Beethoven Diabelli Variations 60’ stencil style animation on outdoor walls
come from, and what feeds it?
with sound transmitted to listeners
Composer-publisher Anton Diabelli hit
What is it, an idea? Where does it come wearing wireless headphones.
the jackpot in 1819 when he invited
from? Whose ideas have triggered mine?
every major composer in German- A comic story of passion and revenge is
And whose triggered theirs?
speaking Europe to submit a variation played out by octogenarians on zimmer
on his ‘patriotic’ waltz theme. Schubert, When composing, one is an interface in frames. He’s been playing around with
the 8-year-old Liszt and Archduke an infinite and never-ending circuit of the next-door neighbour. She’s going
Rudolf of Austria all responded with a connections’ to ‘shoot the fecker in the pecker’
variation, fitting neatly into Diabelli’s Thomas Larcher on writing Movement for Piano (Dublinspeak for ‘shoot the very bad
planned publication. Beethoven, man where it hurts the most’).
Snape 7pm (ends approx. 9pm)
however, composed not one but 33,
Tickets £30, £22, £18, £10 A Dumbworld / Irish National Opera
elevating the variation form to its highest
Under 30s half price co-production.
peak – and necessitating a whole
Coach £3 (5.30pm)
publication of its own. Why did Diabelli’s Outdoor location at Snape Maltings
simple waltz ignite such a spark in Saturday 8 June 9.30pm, 10pm,
Beethoven? Paul Lewis plays the Diabellis 10.30pm; Monday 10 June 10pm,
with a ‘sublime intensity’ (The Telegraph), 10.30pm, 11pm; Tuesday 11 June 10pm,
immersing the listener in the changing 10.30pm, 11pm; Wednesday 12 June
moods, from boisterous humour and 10.30pm, 11pm; Saturday 15 June
exuberance to subtle mystery. 11.15pm, 11.45pm
Tickets £610 Sunday 9 June 10.30am Sunday 9 June 2.30pm Larcher describes his Poems (which he
plays himself) as ‘pieces for pianists and
Festival Service Thomas Larcher other children’ and they are as spritely,
Aldeburgh Voices and Friends quirky and changeable as a child’s
Tom Appleton conductor mood. The coolly refined elegance of
Mark Padmore tenor
Kurtág’s Bach transcriptions for piano
Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor 16’ Thomas Larcher piano
duet acts as a perfect counterweight.
Paul Lewis piano
The opening weekend’s service draws
Britten Studio, Snape 2.30pm
local worshippers and festival visitors Bach arr. Kurtág Chorales 12’
(no interval, ends approx. 3.45pm)
to the Parish Church of St Peter and Thomas Larcher Poems for solo piano 18’;
Tickets £20, £16, £10
St Paul. The sung mass is Vaughan A Padmore Cycle 24’
Under 30s half price
Williams’ Mass in G minor, full of rich, And piano music by Schubert
Coach £3 (1.30pm)
modal harmonies and scored for
An intimate recital by two of this year’s
unaccompanied double choir and
Artists in Residence. Thomas Larcher
soloists.
was inspired by Mark Padmore’s
Aldeburgh Church 10.30am flexibility, clarity and expressive range
(ends approx. 12pm) to create a collection of hyper-
Free no ticket required expressive fragmentary little songs
knitted together by the startling
colours of a prepared piano.
Sunday 9 June
11.30am & 2.30pm
Listening Walks
See p.6 for details.Sunday 9 June 5pm Sunday 9 June 8pm Monday 10 June 3pm 11
The Hunting Gun Tenebrae Film: Charlie
Thomas Larcher music Nigel Short director Chaplin shorts
Words by Friederike Gösweiner
Byrd Mass for 4 Voices 17’; Ne irascaris with live piano improvisation
after a novella by Yasushi Inoue
Domine 9’
Short silent films featuring Charlie
Cast: Samuel Boden, Peter Schöne, Tallis Lamentations I & II 20’
Chaplin: Easy Street (24’), The Immigrant
Sarah Aristidou, Giulia Peri and De Monte Super flumina Babylonis 5’
(24’) and The Adventurer (23’) with live
Olivia Vermeulen James MacMillan Tenebrae
scores improvised by pianist Neil Brand
Responsories 20’
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
In 1969 the films of Charlie Chaplin
Karl Markovics director As the light of a summer evening fades,
were featured at the festival to celebrate
Katharina Wöppermann designer join outstanding choir Tenebrae in
Aldeburgh Cinema’s half-century.
Bernd Purkrabek lighting designer beautiful Blythburgh Church. Tallis and
50 years on, we mark the cinema’s
Knussen Chamber Orchestra Byrd had to navigate carefully through
centenary by turning to Chaplin's
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble the religious turmoil of Tudor England
enduring comedic charm once again.
– achieving royal patronage while their
Sung in German with English surtitles Mining laughs from the most unlikely
Catholicism was effectively outlawed.
sources – poverty, hunger, prison breaks
For full details see p.4 400 years later, James MacMillan works
– he takes us on a wild ride of increasingly
with more freedom, combining his
Snape 5pm (ends approx. 6.45pm) crazy gags and thrilling chases. His three
Catholic faith with a passionate interest
Tickets £40, £32, £27, £10 short films, the result of the first ever
in earthly politics. His responsories, full
Under 30s half price million-dollar deal in the industry, are
of energy and urgency, intersperse the
Coach £3 (4pm) accompanied by Neil Brand’s wonderfully
works of his predecessors.
inventive live piano improvisations,
Blythburgh Church 8pm responding to the action on screen.
(ends approx. 9.45pm)
Aldeburgh Cinema 3pm
Tickets £30, £26, £20, £10
(ends approx. 4.45pm)
Under 30s half price
Tickets £18, £10
Coach £3 (6.30pm from Aldeburgh,
Under 30s half price
6.50pm from Snape)12 Monday 10 - Saturday 15 June 2.30pm In these public masterclasses he will Monday 10 June 7.30pm
explore German, French and Italian
Festival operatic repertoire with some of the
Pierre-Laurent
Masterclasses: most exciting emerging singers and Aimard
Opera Arias with repetiteurs from across the globe,
Debussy Elegie; Page d’album, Les soirs
chosen through annual international
Antonio Pappano auditions. His deep passion for the
illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon 8’
Knussen Variations for piano 7’
Singers and pianists from the operatic world, huge energy and almost
George Benjamin Shadowlines 15’
Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme limitless knowledge promise
Charlotte Bray new work (Aldeburgh
Antonio Pappano course director exceptionally insightful masterclasses
Festival commission, world premiere)
Pamela Bullock course director for audience and participants alike.
Ravel from Miroirs: Oiseaux tristes;
Julia Faulkner voice teacher
Mon 10 – Wed 12, Fri 14 & Sat 15 June Noctuelles; La vallée des cloches 18’
Music Director of the Royal Opera Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape and music by Carter and Dallapiccola
House, Covent Garden & Orchestra 2.30pm (ends approx. 5.30pm)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays an
dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Tickets £8
affectionate tribute to Oliver Knussen
Cecilia, Antonio Pappano is one of the
in a sequence of music by their friends
world’s leading conductors and
and musical collaborators and
collaborative pianist to the world’s
composers close to both their hearts.
greatest singers – he regularly partners
Both men have done so much to
with artists such as Joyce DiDonato,
champion the glittering modernism of
Anna Netrebko, Gerald Finley, Placido
Elliott Carter, and George Benjamin’s
Domingo and Jonas Kaufmann.
elegant distilled miniatures – written
for Aimard – seem a perfect
complement. Appropriately there is a
new work by Charlotte Bray who
studied with Knussen here in Snape.At the programme’s heart are Knussen’s Tuesday 11 June 11am Tuesday 11 June 3pm 13
own ingeniously constructed
Variations, jewels from the workbench
Film: Woman Albion Quartet
of a master-craftsman. Richly of the Dunes Haydn String Quartet in C Op.20 No.2 25’
perfumed music from Debussy’s final Freya Waley-Cohen new work
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara (1964)
years and the pianistic brilliance of (Aldeburgh Festival commission,
With score by Toru Takemitsu
Ravel frame the programme, tracing an world premiere) 20’
arc from Debussy’s tender elegy to the Nominated for two Oscars, this simple Thomas Larcher Cold Farmer 14’
endlessly gently tolling bells of Ravel’s but bizarre tale of entrapment tells the Schubert String Quartet in D minor
sonorous, spacious tone poem for piano. story of a man who misses his bus home D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ 40’
after a day out on a remote stretch of
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.30pm) Larcher says that Cold Farmer (1990)
coast. He is imprisoned by local villagers
Tickets £30, £22, £18, £10 was written at a time when he was
at the bottom of a sand dune, joining a
Under 30s half price ‘breaking away from restraints both
woman who is forced to shovel the
Coach £3 (6pm) real and imagined’, and its music
sand that threatens to engulf them.
explores many textures within a
Director Hiroshi Teshigahara builds an
prevailing atmosphere of inwardness
atmospheric, highly charged and
and yearning. Schubert’s ‘Death and the
Monday 10 June sensual film, which features a brilliantly
Maiden’ Quartet owes its nickname to
10pm, 10.30pm, 11pm chilling, minimalist score by Toru
a movement derived from his song of
Drive-by Shooting Takemitsu.
the same name, but the whole work
A short video and sound Aldeburgh Cinema 11am seems in thrall to Death’s cold,
installation blending opera, (ends approx 1.15pm. Age guidance: 12+) seductive embrace.
street art and animation. Tickets £8
Orford Church 3pm (ends approx. 5.15pm)
See p.9 for details.
Tickets £22, £17, £10
Tuesday 11 June 2.30pm Under 30s half price
Opera Arias Coach £3 (2pm via Snape )
Masterclass
See p.12 for details.14 Tuesday 11 June 7.30pm There are more miniatures from
Oliver Knussen Knussen Chamber Knussen – transcriptions of Scriabin
piano pieces – and typically sensuous
(1952 – 2018) Orchestra music by his great friend, Takemitsu.
2019 marks the 50th The programme is completed by a new
Knussen Chamber Orchestra
anniversary of Oliver Knussen orchestration from composer-conductor
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
being invited by Britten to have Ryan Wigglesworth and Schubert’s
Claire Booth soprano
his music performed at the elegant and high-spirited symphony.
Mark Padmore tenor
Aldeburgh Festival. He was
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.30pm)
then 17 years old and grew to Knussen Scriabin Settings 7’
Tickets £32, £28, £24, £10
be not only one of the most Mussorgsky orch. Ryan Wigglesworth
Under 30s half price
important composers of his day The Nursery (Aldeburgh Festival
Coach £3 (5.30pm)
but a hugely significant commission, world premiere) 5’
conductor and inspirational Takemitsu How Slow the Wind 11’ Pre-performance talk with Ryan
mentor to his fellow composers Knussen O Hototogisu! 8’ Wigglesworth and Roger Wright.
and musicians. Sadly, his last Britten Nocturne 25’ Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape
concerts were at Snape in the Schubert Symphony No.5 28’ 6.30pm. Free, but please book
2018 Festival and so it is fitting
Oliver Knussen’s last work O Hototogisu!
that we should pay tribute to
was premiered at the 2017 Festival, the
him by including a number of
shimmering delicacy of its seven haiku
his works as well as presenting Tuesday 11 June
settings interspersed with the bird-like
the debut performances of the 10pm, 10.30pm & 11pm
song of a solo flute. The work’s spirit
newly-formed Knussen Drive-by Shooting
flickers brightly amidst the rest of the
Chamber Orchestra, assembled
programme in a debut concert by a new A short video and sound
from some of the UK’s leading
chamber orchestra that bears Knussen’s installation blending opera,
orchestral principals and the
name. Solo instruments lend their street art and animation.
finest emerging
distinctive colours to the singer’s song See p.9 for details.
instrumentalists.
in music from Britten evoking night,
sleep and dreams.15
16 Wednesday 12 June from 9.30am Wednesday 12 June 5.30pm Developed in part during a Snape
Residency, this collaboration between
Festival Walk I icon composer, writer, architect and
Heveningham Hall & Upper Blyth Valley Opera for soprano, actor and ensemble photographer attempts to address
these themes of a visual age by creating
The walk begins with a visit to Walpole Frederik Neyrinck music
a music drama from one of Europe’s
Old Chapel, one of the country’s earliest Words by Sabryna Pierre
most enduring modern myths.
Congregational chapels. We then follow
Lieselot De Wilde soprano Projected film and images wrap
the River Blyth through grazed meadows
Tibo Vandenborre actor themselves round Frederik Neyrinck’s
to the stunning Capability Brown
Joey Marijs conductor flickering, ghostly score, and the clarity
parkland of the Heveningham Hall estate
Atelier Bildraum direction / scenography of boundaries between protaganists,
where we hear about its fascinating
Orchestra Asko|Schönberg and even between performers and
replanting and landscaping programme.
audience blurs, dissolves and fades like
After lunch, we make our way past Sung in English
an over-exposed photo.
coppiced hornbeam to Huntingfield UK premiere
Church and its wonderful painted ceiling. Britten Studio, Snape 5.30pm
For well over a century, the image of a
(ends approx. 6.45pm). Please note that
Suitable clothing and footwear essential. mysteriously smiling 19th-century
this performance includes intermittent
5 miles, fairly easy going, some stiles. death mask of an unknown young woman
strobe lighting effects.
Sorry, no dogs allowed. Please let us drowned in the Seine has exerted a
Tickets £18, £10
know any dietary requirements. powerful hold on the imaginations of
Under 30s half price
artists, composers and philosophers.
Tickets £28 including lunch and coach Coach £3 (4.30pm)
Captured in the dawn of the photographic
Coaches depart Moot Hall, Aldeburgh,
age, it has become an icon of beauty and Pre-performance talk
from 9.30am (return approx. 4.30pm)
femininity, a symbol of transience and a Jerwood Kiln Studio, Snape 4.30pm
mystery for the ages. Free, but please book
Wednesday 12 June 2.30pm
A LOD muziektheater co-production
Opera Arias with Coproduction Fundaçao Calouste
Masterclass Gulbenkian Lisbon and Asko|Schönberg
See p.12 for details. AmsterdamWednesday 12 June 8pm Hough plays it tonight in tribute to Thursday 13 June 3pm 17
Knussen himself. There are other
Stephen Hough tributes here too – Liszt’s memorial to
Hesse Lecture:
Stephen Hough piano Chopin, Busoni’s mighty Bach Lavinia Greenlaw
transcription – and exuberant fantasies
Bach-Busoni Chaconne 15’ Into a Stranger Cavern: Repetition,
from both Liszt and Busoni, as well as
Stephen Hough Sonata No.4 8’ Memory and Image
Hough’s own original music.
Chopin Sonata No.2 23’
In an event drawing together several
Busoni Sonatina No.6 (Carmen Fantasy) 8’ Snape 8pm (ends approx. 10pm)
threads found elsewhere in the festival,
Knussen Prayer Bell Sketch 5’ Tickets £30, £22, £18, £10
T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet and
Liszt Funerailles 15’; Mephisto Waltz Under 30s half price
novelist Lavinia Greenlaw explores how
(‘Bagatelle without tonality’) 3’; Coach £3 (6.30pm)
memories, ideas and images form.
Mephisto Waltz No.1 12’
Drawing on poetry, painting, music and
Bach’s titanic chaconne and Chopin’s noise, she also references caves, railway
Wednesday 12 June
sonata with its famous funeral march tunnels, weather, carpets, diary pages
10.30pm & 11pm
exert a weighty gravitational pull. But and early photographs.
the emotional core of Stephen Hough’s Drive-by Shooting
The event ends with a showing of
typically taut programme could well be A short video and sound
The Sea is an Edge and an Ending,
a tiny tribute from Oliver Knussen in installation blending opera,
a short film written and directed by
memory of Toru Takemitsu – street art and animation.
Greenlaw. Shot in Suffolk, it investigates
‘recollections of a few simple bell See p.9 for details.
what it means to lose your memory
sounds which, to me, resonate with
and disappear into the present tense.
memories of a dear friend and
Its framework is a sequence she
wonderful composer.’
wrote about her father’s death from
Alzheimer’s.
Aldeburgh Cinema 3pm
(ends approx. 4.15pm)
Tickets £15, £10
Under 30s half price18
Thursday 13 June 7.30pm This evening of words and music takes Friday 14 June 11am 19
the sea as its starting point. Storm-
The Sea, The Sea tossed or tranquil, dark or glistening,
Britten–Pears
Mark Padmore tenor benign or deadly, the restless sea has Young Artists
Roderick Williams baritone fascinated mankind for centuries. Its Alumni I
Julius Drake piano eternal power to entice, frighten,
Danny Koo violin
separate, connect, reflect light and
Songs by Ireland, Haydn, Stanford, Daniel Lebhardt piano
mirror states of mind has likewise long
Finzi, Fauré, Duparc, Rebecca Clarke,
issued an enticing challenge to poets Britten Suite, Op.6 16’; Notturno 5’
Tippett, Mendelssohn, Schubert,
and composers. Knussen Autumnal 7’; Ophelia’s Last
Brahms, Wolf, Elgar, Britten and
Dance 6’
Hely Hutchinson Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.30pm)
Beethoven Violin Sonata in A ‘Kreutzer’ 35’
Tickets £30, £22, £18, £10
Poetry readings of Robert Frost,
Under 30s half price ‘Britten pointed me on the right path in
Lawrence Durrell, Thomas Hardy,
Coach £3 (6pm) the simplest, kindest way’, Oliver Knussen
Wallace Stevens, Matthew Arnold,
said, and the poetic Autumnal is
Emily Dickinson, Stevie Smith,
dedicated to him. Two very different
Christina Rossetti, Rudyard Kipling,
Britten works precede it – the vivacious
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Lord
extrovert violin Suite and the gentle
Tennyson, Elizabeth Bishop, Charles
Night Piece for solo piano. The wistful
Causley and Edward Lear
arabesques of Knussen’s piano solo work
are in stark contrast to the forceful
ebullience of Beethoven’s grandest violin
sonata, an enthralling drama of equals.
Jubilee Hall 11am (ends approx. 12.45pm)
Tickets £16, £10
Under 30s half price20 Friday 14 June 2.30pm Friday 14 June 4.30pm
Friday 21 & Saturday 22 June
Film: Oliver Knussen events 4pm till late
Secret Theatre
- Sounds from the The Pumphouse Ulysses Ensemble
Big White House The alternative Aldeburgh
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
Introduced by director Barrie Gavin Festival. See p.44 for more Knussen Coursing 6’
information. Britten Sinfonietta 15’
Made to celebrate Knussen’s 50th
Caterina di Cecca new work (Aldeburgh
birthday in 2002, Barrie Gavin’s
Festival commission, world premiere) 6’
affectionate film also stands as a portrait
Colin Matthews Sun’s Dance 17’
of his musical landscape, focusing on his Friday 14 June 2.30pm
Tansy Davies Inside Out II 6’
life at home in Snape. It reveals not only Opera Arias Harrison Birtwistle Secret Theatre 28’
a man with eclectic interests and passions, Masterclass
from the unwieldy size of his score Important ensemble pieces by
See p.12 for details.
archive to his collections of owls, clocks, Birtwistle, Knussen and Matthews,
gadgets and jokes, but also a widely written in close succession and with a
admired composer of meticulously shared interest in elemental power and
crafted scores. His generosity to and timelessness, are performed by a
championing of younger composers is contemporary music ensemble bringing
clear, along with his frankness about together some of the best young
feeling exhausted from writing in long instrumentalists in Europe.
form for his opera Where the Wild Things
Are. Gavin’s film astutely captures Olly
where he lived, performed, taught,
entertained and composed for many
years, and where his absence after his
sudden death last year is felt so keenly.
Aldeburgh Cinema 2.30pm
(ends approx. 3.45pm)
Tickets £10 Under 30s half priceSecret Theatre is the classic piece of Friday 14 June 7.30pm Friday 14 June 10pm 21
the period, while Knussen and
Matthews’ inspiration in natural
Vox Luminis I Britten–Pears
phenomena results in rapid-fire, liquid Lionel Meunier director Young Artists
elegance in Coursing and ever-evolving,
Choral motets by JS Bach and his Alumni II
never-repeating music in Sun’s Dance.
ancestors The House of Bedlam
Contrast is provided by Britten’s Opus 1,
Composers from the
written aged 18, Tansy Davies’ cheeky, Following their enthusiastically
Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme
jazz-infused miniature, and a premiere received Aldeburgh debut in 2017, Lionel
by Rome-based composer Meunier and Vox Luminis return for The 2018 BPYAP composition course, led
Caterina di Cecca. another three-concert residency. While by Larry Goves and the House of
the music of Johann Sebastian’s sons is Bedlam, brought together an eclectic
Britten Studio, Snape 4.30pm
relatively well-explored, the output of group of creators in an exploration of
(ends approx. 6.30pm)
his ancestors is more rarely performed. alternative performance and
Tickets £18, £15, £10
This programme reveals the strong link performance art. Together with House
Under 30s half price
between Johann Sebastian’s of Bedlam, a group of participants
Coach £3 (3.45pm)
sumptuous sacred motets, which return to The Pumphouse to perform
weave their finely-spun decorative works created by both tutors and
threads around Lutheran choral young artists.
melodies, and those of his predecessors,
The Pumphouse 10pm
which speak with both direct simplicity
(ends approx. 11.30pm)
and sensual beauty.
Tickets £9
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.30pm)
Tickets £30, £22, £18, £10
Under 30s half price
Coach £3 (6pm)22 Friday 14 June 10.30pm Saturday 15 June 11am Saturday 15 June 3.30pm
Poetry and Music: Heath Quartet Elizabeth Kenny
Who Are These Thomas Larcher Madhares 18’ Elizabeth Kenny theorbo
Children? Britten String Quartet No.1 26’
Music from the early 17th century by
Beethoven String Quartet
Mark Padmore tenor Piccinini, Kapsberger and de Visée
Op.59 No.2 35’
Andrew West piano Music from the early 21st century by
With Don Paterson poet Britten wrote his elegant first quartet James MacMillan, Benjamin Oliver and
Introduced by Kate Kennedy in his late twenties, rating it ‘my best Nico Muhly (world premiere)
piece so far’, while Beethoven’s work,
Britten Who Are These Children? The development of the lute into the
also in E minor, contains a cosmic
[Soutar] long-necked theorbo created an
Adagio composed in the course of
instrument with a split personality –
Composed in 1969, Who Are These ‘contemplating the music of the
able to support beautiful melodies with
Children? sets poems by the spheres’. Named after a ‘Utopian place’
long, resonant bass strings but with an
20th-century Scottish poet William in Crete, Madhares (2007) unveils a wide
unwieldy, slightly comic appearance
Soutar – eight brief children’s rhymes in but intimately detailed soundscape,
which was mocked. Elizabeth Kenny
Scots dialect, and four ‘English’ howls from tiny pizzicatos and wiry high
celebrates these split identities, with
of protest at the callousness and glissandos to throbbing chords and thin
mellifluous French music alongside
violence of the adult world and the gossamer melodies.
eccentric Italian improvisatory pieces,
suffering it causes to the innocent. The
Snape 11am (ends approx. 1pm) old works alongside new, including a
childish wordplay of the Scots songs is
Tickets £25, £21, £18, £10 haunting 21st-century motet, a funk/
brilliantly caught by Britten, contrasting
Under 30s half price ground bass-influenced fantasy, and a
powerfully with the Blakean intensity
Coach £3 (10am) premiere exploiting the theorbo’s
and compassion of the English songs.
unconventional tuning system and
Aldeburgh Church 10.30pm expressive possibilities to powerful effect.
(no interval, ends approx. 11.45pm)
Orford Church 3.30pm
Tickets £18, £15, £10
(ends approx. 5.15pm)
Under 30s half price
Tickets £20, £16, £10 Under 30s half price
Coach £3 (2.30pm via Snape)23
24 Saturday 15 June 7.30pm A Festival debut for Karina Canellakis,
and a return for Sarah Tynan, who after Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 June
BBC Symphony her Les Illuminations in Struan Leslie’s 11.30am & 2.30pm
Orchestra 2016 Aldeburgh circus fantasy, sings a Listening Walks
very different Britten cycle. From the
Karina Canellakis conductor See p.6 for details.
early months of a fruitful and prolific
Sarah Tynan soprano
collaboration with WH Auden, Our
Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from Hunting Fathers is a gripping allegory,
Tristan und Isolde 17’ poet and composer attuned to nature’s Saturday 15 June 2.30pm
Britten Our Hunting Fathers 27’ savagery and the oppressive, ominous Opera Arias
Thomas Larcher Red and Green 22’ world events of the late 1930s. Masterclass
Stravinsky Suite, The Firebird (1919
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.45pm) See p.12 for details.
version) 23’
Tickets £38, £32, £25, £10
Could there be two more arresting Under 30s half price
openings in all music than the restless Coach £3 (5.30pm)
Saturday 15 June
rapture of Wagner’s operatic lovers and
Pre-performance talk with Karina 11.15pm & 11.45pm
the ominous growls that herald
Canellakis and Thomas Larcher. Drive-by Shooting
Stravinsky’s century-old ballet score to
Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape
a Russian folk-tale? They share with A short video and sound
6.30pm. Free, but please book
Thomas Larcher’s work a compressed installation blending opera,
energy and ravishing orchestral colours. street art and animation.
See p.9 for details.Saturday 15 June 10.15pm Sunday 16 June 11am 25
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Britten Studio, Snape 11am
Tickets £10
(no interval, ends approx. 12.30pm)
Under 30s half price
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Bastard Assignments are Open Space Under 30s half price
artists at Snape Maltings Coach £3 (10am)26
Sunday 16 June 4pm MacGregor and Brendel offer us Sunday 16 June 7.30pm 27
intimate music for cello and piano by
Britten and Bridge Britten, his teacher, his assistant and his
Vox Luminis II
Adrian Brendel cello younger colleague. Large-scale sonatas Lionel Meunier director
Joanna MacGregor piano bookend the programme – Britten’s
Britten Hymn to St Cecilia 10’
Marta Fontanals-Simmons punchy, richly characterised work
Handel Dixit Dominus 33’; Ode for
mezzo-soprano written for his new friend Rostropovich
St Cecilia’s Day 41’
to premiere at the 1961 Aldeburgh
Britten Sonata 18’
Festival, and Frank Bridge’s achingly ‘What passion cannot Music raise and
Imogen Holst The Fall of The Leaf for
beautiful piece of late-Romantic quell?’ The question posed by the
solo cello 9’
wistfulness composed during WWI. soprano aria from Handel’s extravagant
Harvey Songs and Haikus (UK premiere)
In between, Imogen Holst’s cello solo ode seemed to rouse Handel to new
10’ ; Curve with Plateaux 12’
alternates between plangent beauty heights of invention and dramatic
Britten Folksongs 11’
and pizzicato passages aimed at intensity, illuminating Dryden’s texts
Bridge Sonata 22’
sounding ‘like the lute of our friend with brilliant word painting that ranges
Julian Bream’. from the Day of Judgement to vocal
depictions of musical instruments.
Mezzo Fontanals-Simmons sings
Music, musicians and musical
Britten’s folk song arrangements and
instruments all play their part in
songs by Jonathan Harvey.
Britten’s delightful setting of Auden’s
Britten Studio, Snape 4pm iridescent words some two centuries
(ends approx. 5.45pm) later. Vox Luminis bring their sharp-
Tickets £22, £17, £10 edged clarity and dramatic impulse in
Under 30s half price celebrating music’s patron saint, and to
Coach £3 (3pm) Handel’s scintillating psalm setting
Dixit Dominus.
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.30pm)
Tickets £30, £22, £18, £10
Under 30s half price
Coach £3 (6pm)28 Monday 17 June 12 noon Monday 17 - Friday 21 June 2.30pm Monday 17 June 4pm
Satie Songs Festival Aldeburgh Voices
and Piano Masterclasses: Ben Parry conductor
Barbara Hannigan soprano Singing Britten Jesse Flowers guitar
Reinbert de Leeuw piano with Mark Padmore Britten Nocturnal 19’
Tippett The Blue Guitar 17’ ; Five
Satie Socrate 33’ and piano music Singers and pianists from the
Spirituals from A Child of Our Time 10’
including Gnossiennes 22’ Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme
and choral music by Tippett,
Mark Padmore course director
Barbara Hannigan’s long term Thea Musgrave, Roxanna Panufnik,
James Baillieu piano & vocal coach
collaboration with Reinbert de Leeuw Judith Weir and Ben Parry
Julia Faulkner voice teacher
continues to produce revelatory results.
Modern madrigals cradle two
Their ecstatically received Satie Mark Padmore’s extraordinary diction
masterpieces for the solo guitar.
recording opened up new insights into and sensitivity to poetry and language
Tippett’s experience as a conductor and
this most enigmatic and original of make him ideally placed to bring his
his love for Tudor composers produced
composers. Achingly melancholic pieces vast knowledge of English Song, and
miniatures of delicate textures and
for piano, their soft-edged harmonies particularly that of Benjamin Britten to
vivid word-painting. But his Spirituals
floating with weightless simplicity, the next generation of artists. In this
contain a world of communal suffering
precede the song-drama Socrate, a week’s masterclasses, Mark will work in
and hope that is barely contained by
masterpiece of warmth, sincerity and detail on Britten’s output for voice and
their deceptively simple refrains.
hypnotic beauty. piano, working with exceptionally
Britten’s exquisite transformation of a
talented emerging singers and pianists
‘Hannigan sings the songs of Erik Satie John Dowland song and Tippett’s
from the Britten-Pears Young Artist
as if she’s sitting next to you, whispering poetry and painting-inspired fantasia
Programme, who have been chosen
and cooing across the kitchen table’ show an expressive depth and mastery
through highly competitive
The Guardian of the guitar that befits their first
international auditions.
performer, Julian Bream.
Britten Studio, Snape 12 noon
Monday 17 – Friday 21 June
(ends approx. 1.45pm) Orford Church 4pm (ends approx. 6pm)
Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape
Tickets £22, £17, £10 Tickets £18, £15, £10 Under 30s half price
2.30pm (ends approx. 5.30pm)
Coach £3 (11am) Coach £3 (3pm via Snape)
Tickets £8Monday 17 June 7.30pm Schubert only once took the financial risk Tuesday 18 June 11am 29
of mounting a concert of his own music,
Schubert 1828 and it was in the last year of his life.
Quatuor Diotima
Mark Padmore tenor Though the press was more interested in Szymanowski String Quartet No.2 18’
Roderick Williams baritone Paganini at the time, it sold well, and Thomas Larcher String Quartet No.4
Roger Vignoles piano included two of his greatest ‘Lucid Dreams’ 27’
Richard Watkins horn masterpieces – the E-flat Piano Trio, ripe Schubert String Quartet in G 43’
Trio Isimsiz with emotional subtleties, and part of the
With each movement dedicated to
Quatuor Diotima enigmatically nuanced String Quartet in
someone who died during its
Chamber Choir of London G – plus a fascinating mixture of typically
composition, Larcher’s most recent
jewel-like songs and unusual but
Schubert String Quartet in G major 1st quartet (2015) is emotionally volatile
delightful pieces for chorus and piano.
movement 16’; Der Kreuzzug 4’; Die and hard-hitting. The textures of
This remarkable programme from 1828 is
Sterne 3’; Fischerweise 3’; Fragment Szymanowski’s Second Quartet move
recreated in full.
from Aeschylus 3’; Ständchen (soprano through Ravelian delicacy, rugged folk
and choir) 6’; Piano Trio in E-flat 44’; Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 10pm) material worthy of Bartók, and
Auf dem Strom 10’; Die Allmacht 6’; Tickets £30, £22, £18, £10 Shostakovich-like intensity, yet create a
Schlachtgesang 2’ Under 30s half price masterpiece of formal fluidity with a
Coach £3 (5.30pm) character entirely of its own. Schubert’s
last quartet is his most enigmatic,
Pre-performance talk with Schubert
constantly shifting between major and
expert Richard Stokes.
minor, light and shade, always asking
Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape
questions but never settling on answers.
6.30pm. Free, but please book
Aldeburgh Church 11am
(ends approx. 1pm)
Tickets £22, £17, £10
Under 30s half price30 Tuesday 18 June 3pm Tuesday 18 June 7.30pm Wednesday 19 June from 9.30am
Poetry and Music: Vox Luminis III Festival Walk II
Songs and Proverbs Lionel Meunier director Craggy Churches and Ancient Oaks
of William Blake Music for the Coronation and Funeral This walk starts at Butley Mills, by the
Roderick Williams baritone of Queen Mary including anthems and reed-choked Butley Creek. We visit two
Andrew West piano funeral sentences by Purcell, Blow connected churches at Chillesford and
with Patience Agbabi poet and Morley Wantisden, both notable for being built
Introduced by Kate Kennedy partly from Coralline Crag, a stone
Vox Luminis recreate the splendour and
unique to Suffolk. The quarry for both
Britten Songs and Proverbs of hushed introspection of Queen Mary’s
buildings lies behind Chillesford church.
William Blake 25’ coronation and her funeral, six years
After lunch, we visit one of Suffolk’s
later. Purcell’s music captures the spirit
Britten’s Blake settings, composed in natural treasures, Staverton Thicks. Marvel
of these services and transcends them
1965 for the great German baritone at this magical woodland of ancient oak,
in ravishing choral works that are
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, are perhaps holly and silver birch, known to have
universal and profound, his revered
his most tightly-knit cycle, interleaving been in existence in the 14th century.
setting of the Funeral Sentences
texts from the poet’s Songs of Experience Suitable clothing and footwear
transforming dignified sombre
with prose epigrams from the Proverbs essential. 6.5 miles, fairly easy going.
utterances with music of ethereal
of Hell such as ‘To see eternity in a grain of Sorry, no dogs allowed. Please let us
spaciousness and searing intensity.
sand’. Dark and intense, Britten’s music know any dietary requirements.
slips constantly between chromaticism Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.30pm)
Tickets £28 including lunch and coach
and more straightforward harmonies to Tickets £30, £22, £18, £10
Coaches depart Moot Hall, Aldeburgh,
evoke the tension between innocence Under 30s half price
from 9.30am (return approx. 4.30pm)
and experiences implicit in Blake’s words. Coach £3 (5.30pm)
Britten Studio, Snape 3pm Pre-performance talk with Lionel
Tue 8 & Wed 19 June 2.30pm
(no interval, ends approx. 4.15pm) Meunier. Peter Pears Recital Room,
Tickets £18, £15, £10 Snape 6.30pm. Free, but please book Singing Britten
Under 30s half price Masterclass
Coach £3 (2pm) See p.28 for details.31
32 Wednesday 19 June 7.30pm Thursday 20 June 11am Thursday 20 June 3pm
Alisa Weilerstein Film: Songs of Ardeo Quartet
Alisa Weilerstein cello Experience - Takemitsu A Way a Lone 13’
Bach Suites for solo cello No.1 in G; Michael Tippett Mozart String Quartet K464 33’
Thomas Larcher IXXU 14’
No.3 in C, No.5 in C minor; No.6 in D at 85 Beethoven String Quartet Op.135 25’
It is not known why or for whom Bach Introduced by Oliver Soden
Completed in 2004, IXXU shows Larcher’s
composed his suites for solo cello, but
Michael Tippett’s vitality in old age and typical wide contrasts, bouncing fiercely
does it matter? What is more important
impressive daily working discipline are driven rhythmic repetitions off moments
is that they are masterful crystallisations
abundantly apparent in Mischa Scorer’s of glassy, Arvo Pärt-like calm. Similarly,
of his unique and universal art, a
1991 documentary. Interviewed at Takemitsu’s A Way a Lone plays typically
distillation of melody and harmony into a
home in the Sussex countryside, meticulous sound-textures off against
single line of pure music that
entertaining musician friends and expressionistic gestures. Mozart’s
encompasses a world of profound
working on the manuscript of New Year, quartet was dedicated to Haydn, and its
expression. As such they are an ultimate
his final dance-opera work, Tippett formal resourcefulness and
test that reveals not just a cellist’s
reflects on a late flowering in a long conversational clarity make a worthy
technique, but their musical eloquence
musical life. He speaks frankly of his tribute. And did Beethoven ever write a
and honesty too.
homosexuality as well as the stranger quartet than Op.135, where
Blythburgh Church 7.30pm importance of the outside world to his light-touch jokiness and profound lyrical
(ends approx. 9.30pm) work. Very much at ease on camera, at serenity jostle with existential wrangling
Tickets £26, £20, £15, £10 times talking directly to the lens, over a three-note motto he associated
Under 30s half price Coach £3 (6pm) Tippett gives the sense of a man with the words ‘must it be?’
engaged with contemporary ideas and
Orford Church 3pm (ends approx. 5pm)
relaxed in the company of his younger
Tickets £20, £16, £10
Thursday 20 June 2.30pm collaborators.
Under 30s half price
Singing Britten Aldeburgh Cinema 11am Coach £3 (2pm via Snape)
Masterclass (ends approx. 12.45pm)
See p.28 for details. Tickets £10Thursday 20 June 7.30pm Barbara Hannigan and the Ludwig – this time, however, in her first opera 33
Orchestra present Stravinsky, Auden production as conductor rather than
The Rake’s Progress and Kallman’s morality tale of a young singer, and also as mentor to the cast
Igor Stravinsky music man who refuses the offer of a job of singers whom she has hand-picked
Words by W.H. Auden & Chester Kallman promising a life of dutiful, conventional from her Equilibrium young artist
respectability, vowing to live by his programme, who are joined by the
Equilibrium Young Artists:
wits instead. He appears to strike gold Chorus of Opera Holland Park.
Aphrodite Patoulidou Anne Truelove
almost immediately, but we watch him
Yannis Francois Nick Shadow Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 10.30pm)
descend into dissolution and madness
Elgan Thomas Tom Rakewell Tickets £38, £32, £25, £10
as he takes his chances in the big city.
Fleur Barron Baba the Turk Under 30s half price
Antoin Herrera-Lopez Kessel Taken under the dark wing of the Coach £3 (6pm)
Father Truelove Mephistophelian Nick Shadow, how far
James Way Sellem will Tom Rakewell fall, and can he be
saved in time?
Chorus of Opera Holland Park
Ludwig Orchestra The 18th-century English setting is
Barbara Hannigan conductor the perfect vehicle for Stravinsky’s
Linus Fellbom director/designer fullest immersion into the opera
tradition, written at the culmination
Semi-staged, sung in English
of his ‘neoclassical’ period inhabiting
and reinventing the musical styles of
the past.
Festival Artist in Residence Barbara
Hannigan returns to an opera in which
she sung one of her earliest major roles
The Rake’s Progress at Gothenburg Concert Hall,
December 2018 Photo © Mats Bäcker34
Friday 21 June 11am Friday 21 June 3pm 35
Friday 21 & Saturday 22 June
Britten-Pears Young Karim Said events 4pm till late
Artists Alumni III Karim Said piano The Pumphouse
Charlotte Bowden soprano 16th-century English music by The alternative Aldeburgh
Hugo Herman-Wilson baritone Byrd, Tomkins, Bull and Morley Festival. See p.44 for more
Fernando Aguado harpsichord 20th-century music by Schoenberg, information.
Camilla Morse-Glover cello Berg and Webern
Eric Thomas theorbo
Dances and fantasias, master and pupils:
Songs by Purcell including O Solitude, this is a programme that explores the Friday 21 June 2.30pm
If Music be the Food of Love, Man is for influence of Byrd on the music of Singing Britten
woman made and extracts from Elizabethan England and Schoenberg Masterclass
Don Quixote and King Arthur on that of 20th-century Vienna. Karim
See p.28 for details.
Said makes a compelling case for the
‘Among thy fancies tell me this, what is
piano as the keyboard of choice,
that thing we call a kiss?’ The question
imitating the yearning qualities of a viol
asked in a little musical dialogue by
consort. Join him to discover the
Henry Lawes begins this programme
common threads which link two very
exploring 17th-century notions of love,
different musical eras.
with extracts from theatrical music
and other works by Henry Purcell. Britten Studio, Snape 3pm
Purcell’s lovers, who prove to be by (ends approx. 5pm)
turns melancholy, delirious, bawdy, Tickets £20, £16, £10
philosophical and ecstatic. Under 30s half price
Coach £3 (1.15pm)
Jubilee Hall 11am
(no interval, ends approx. 12.15pm) Pre-performance talk with Karim Said
Tickets £16, £10 and Roger Wright. Britten Studio,
Under 30s half price Snape 1.45pm. Free, but please book36 Friday 21 June 7.30pm Crossing the threshold: Barbara Saturday 22 June 11am
Hannigan’s choice of two totemic works
Hannigan and separated by exactly a century seem to
Masterclass Recital:
Ludwig Orchestra I hover between one world and the next. Singing Britten
Grisey’s last work is a song cycle
Ludwig Orchestra Singers and pianists from the
contemplating death set to music of
Barbara Hannigan conductor/soprano Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme
glittering intricacy and savage beauty,
Steven Schick conductor
whilst Schoenberg’s early tone-poem Following a week of public
Alisa Weilerstein cello
moves from restless foreboding to a masterclasses and one-to-one teaching
Bach Suite for solo cello No.2 in radiant transformation in a farewell to a with Mark Padmore, coaching by pianist
D minor 20’ lavish late-Romantic soundworld. When James Baillieu and voice lessons with
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (string the focus turns to a single instrument, Julia Faulkner, the Britten–Pears Young
orchestra version) 30’ the dark depths and multi-layered lines Artists present some of the repertoire
Grisey Quatre chants pour franchir le of Bach’s suites themselves seem to they have been working on.
seuil 40’ transcend and transform their humble
Britten Studio, Snape 11am
Bach Suite No.4 for solo cello in E-flat origins in dance.
(no interval, ends approx. 12.30pm)
major 25’
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx. 10pm) Tickets £10
Tickets £26, £22, £18, £10 Under 30s half price
Under 30s half price Coach £3 (10am)
Coach £3 (6pm)
Saturday 22 June
11.30am & 2.30pm
Listening Walks
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