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2010
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Saturday, June 19 2010

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  • Friday 11 June 2010 - Sunday 27 June 2010

    63rd Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts

    Highlights of the 2010 Aldeburgh Festival programme include a visit from Pierre Boulez, a celebration of Peter Pears on his centenary, Artistic Director Pierre-Laurent Aimard performing a new Collage-Montage, and more besides.

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  • Saturday 19 June 2010

    Composer Portrait: George Benjamin

    George Benjamin conducts the London Sinfonietta, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and mezzo Susan Bickley in a programme that includes works by Scriabin, Debussy, Messiaen and Benjamin himself

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  • Saturday 19 June 2010

    The Way to the Sea

    Celebrating 100 years of Thorpeness, this promenade performance includes Britten’s On This Island, his early piano work Holiday Diary and the documentary The Way to the Sea, woven together with archive, new film and more.

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  • Saturday 19 June 2010

    CBSO

    Jonathan Nott conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a programme of works by Stravinsky and George Benjamin, coupled with Pierre Boulez’s Cummings ist der Dichter, featuring vocal ensemble EXAUDI.

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  • Saturday 19 June 2010

    Circus Skills, Theatre and music from the CBSO: El Ultimo Tango

    A circus skills workshop from Circus Ricardo, Aisha Orazbayeva playing Bach and Berio for violin, theatre from Ros Adler, Aldeburgh Young Musicians with their percussion ensemble, all expertly rounded off by the CBSO's El Ultimo Tango ensemble.

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BEHIND THE SCENES

2-10 September
Strauss and Wolf Lieder
Lieder pianist Roger Vignoles explores the interpretation of masterpieces by two of the greatest song composers with singers and pianists from the Britten–Pears Programme. Vocal consultant Penny Mackay assists with input from Lieder specialist Susan Youens.

13-22 September
International Academy of String Quartets
Aldeburgh's world-renowned annual programme for developing young quartets kicks off with masterclasses by Isabel Charisius. She is joined this year by violinist Ilan Gronich, former member of the Israeli and kreuzberger Quartets
 

4-8 October
The Rare Theatricall
This young London-based vocal and instrumental ensemble specialises in the music of Henry Purcell and his contemporaries. The Rare Theatricall will spend a week in residence semi-staging a 17th century English play with theatre director Tom Morris
 
11-16 October
Britten Weekend - Guy Johnston
Guy Johnston explores Britten music for cello including an unpublished work with piano and 2nd Suite

1-4 December
Revenge of the Folksingers
Scottish based baroque/folk fusion group Concal explore British song repertoire from both sides of the English-Scottish border with singers including Martin Carthy and Glasgow legend Michael Marra. The intention is to stage a “good-humoured revenge” of the traditional artists for what some might see as the gentrification of their culture in the folk song arrangements of Britten and Pears