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Featured composer: György Kurtág
This year's featured composer is one of the most significant
figures of modern music, György Kurtág. In addition
to having his works performed throughout the Festival including
in the programmes of BCMG (15
June), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (20
June) and the BBC Singers (26
June), Kurtág will also give a recital with his
wife Márta and the violinist Hiromi Kikuchi of his
own Játékok coupled with Bach Transcriptions
(19
June).
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UK and World Premieres
The Festival opens this year with a new music-theatre
piece by Yannis Kyriakides, An Ocean of Rain (13
June). Rehearsals are currently underway at Snape - click
here to read the rehearsal blog or for music clips and
more visit www.oceanofrain.com.
Other premieres during the Festival include a concert of works
by Britten–Pears composer alumni (20
June), Oscar Colomina i Bosch's Clothes crying slow,
dirty tears performed by the Manson Ensemble (24
June), a violin concerto by John Woolrich performed by
Northern Sinfonia (26
June), and both Harrison Birtwistle's string quartet Tree
of Strings and his arrangements of three movements from
Bach The Art of Fugue, given by the Arditti Quartet
(27
June).
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Artistic Director designate in performance
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who will be the Aldeburgh Festival's
Artistic Director from 2009, appears this year as conductor,
soloist and chamber musician. To complement Birtwistle's The
Art of Fugue arrangements on 27 June, Aimard will perform
a selection of excerpts from Bach's work in solo recital alongside
excerpts from Kurtág's Játékok
(20
June), before joining viola player Tabea Zimmermann and
clarinettist Martin Fröst for a programme of works by
Schumann, Kurtág and Marco Stroppa (22
June).
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Aldeburgh Alumni performing during the Festival
The wealth of musical talent we have been so fortunate
to nurture is reflected magnificently in the Aldeburgh alumni
performing throughout the Festival: Britten–Pears Programme
faculty alumni include bass-baritone Robert Holl in an all-Schubert
programme (15
June) and pianist Stephen Kovacevich performing Bach,
Schumann and Beethoven (25
June); while student alumni include Festival Artistic
Director Thomas Adès, who conducts the BCMG in a performance
of works by Ligeti, Gerald Barry and Kurtág alongside
his own Living Toys (15
June), and Pieter Wispelwey, performing Bach's magnificent
solo cello suites in two parts (24
June).
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Open Air events
This year's free open air events once again take place
at noon every Sunday during the Festival, on Aldeburgh Beach
(15
June and 22
June) and at Snape (29
June). The first event is a world premiere from Joseph
Phibbs inspired by people's musical memories; the second event
sees students from King Edward VI Upper School and from University
Campus Suffolk working with Simon Limbrick to manipulate vocal
sounds, while the third event features young people from Gorseland
Primary and Belstead School, who together with junk band Urban
Strawberry Lunch will create a musical installation exploring
the musicality of the Snape Maltings site. Audiences can join
in the fun or just watch: if you'd like more details please
email Lizzie Woods on ewoods@aldeburgh.co.uk.
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Faster Than Sound
Faster Than Sound makes a welcome return this year with
three events over two days, starting with a late-night performance
of Stockhausen's seminal piece of 20th-century vocal music,
Stimmung (27
June), and concluding with an evening of commissions in
the Hush House at Bentwaters Airbase. Featuring multichannel
live performances by Plaid, Tim Exile, Vladislav Delay, Mira
Calix, Johann Johannsson, Stefan Schneider and more, it promises
to be a truly unique and immersive sound experience, crossing
electronics and live instruments (28
June). For more information about any of the Faster
Than Sound events please visit www.fasterthansound.com.
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The Pumphouse
The Aldeburgh Festival's laid-back little brother returns
this year with three weekends of entertainment, ranging from
folk, jazz and rock music to comedy, poetry, theatre and cabaret.
Highlights include the folk-meets-electro duet R&R Electronics
(14
June), Halesworth three-piece Friendly Misunderstood Rabbits
(FMR), who fuse funk, pop and rock (21
June), and contemporary classical composers Rolf Wallin,
Tansy Davies and Morgan Hayes (22
June). The Pumphouse will be open on Fridays, Saturdays
and Sundays from 14-28 June - click
here for the full programme.
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Festival Exhibitions
This year's Festival features a major new sculptural group
by Ana Maria Pacheco; Laurence Edwards' Creek Men;
a focus on Britten's Noye's Fludde, Rolf Wallin's interactive,
music-creating Feelings installation, and Standing
Wave, a sound reactive light installation exploring the
contrasting reflective states of water. For more details about
all these exhibitions and installations, please visit www.aldeburgh.co.uk/events.
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Aldeburgh Music Development Plan latest
Construction of Phase 1 of the project continues to plan
and our main focus currently is finalising the designs for
Phase 2. We plan to start building the Dovecote Studio and
the Information Centre this autumn. The refurbishment of Elizabeth
Court is also proceeding so that we can start as soon as possible
to house artists there, particularly young musicians on BPP
courses. To find out more, including how to support project,
please visit www.aldeburgh.co.uk/developmentplan
or call 01728 687100.
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Letters from a Life
Fresh from the printer comes the latest volume of Letters
from a Life, the selected letters of Benjamin Britten
written 1952-1957. Edited by Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke and
Donald Mitchell and published by Boydell Press, it covers
a particularly important period in the composer's life, including
the composition of such key works as The Turn of the Screw.
To order, please visit www.boydell.co.uk;
the price is £45.
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SUNDAY 8 JUNE
Resonances: A portrait of Niccolò Castiglioni
Discover the sumptuous sound world of enigmatic Italian composer
Niccolò Castiglioni. Piano music exploring the extremes,
Castiglioni's work encompasses stylistic influences from the
renaissance to impressionism and the avant-garde. Performers
include world-renowned Castiglioni experts, conductor Oliver
Knussen and pianist Sarah Nicolls, with music including premieres
of works by Silvina Milstein and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre 7.30pm
Tickets Box Office 0871 663 2500 or www.southbankcentre.co.uk
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