Tag: Aldeburgh Festival
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Britten’s Song Trail at Aldeburgh Festival 2023
An innovative series of concerts in different Aldeburgh locations
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Review: Tsoy and Kolesnikov play Bach and Shostakovich at Aldeburgh Festival 2023
Easily the best thing at Aldeburgh this week.
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Review: BBC Phil plays Britten Violin Concerto and Sibelius 5 at Aldeburgh Festival 2023
Power and verve from the BBC Philharmonic and Simone Lamsma
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Composer Sarah Angliss talks about her new opera ‘Giant’ premiering at Aldeburgh Festival 2023
In conversation with composer Sarah Angliss.
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Aldeburgh Festival premieres ‘Violet’ by Tom Coult and Alice Birch
Tom Coult and Alice Birch’s ‘Violet’ opened the 2022 Aldeburgh Festival. The new opera is gripping, bleak, and thought-provoking.
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Line-up revealed for an extended Aldeburgh Festival running from 3-26 June 2022
41 premieres, a celebration of the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme at 50, plus Benedetti, Simpson, Clare Hammond & Víkingur Ólafsson.
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The (kind of) 2020 Aldeburgh Festival
If memory serves me correctly, 2020 is the first time the 72-year-old Aldeburgh Festival won’t be going ahead. No surprises why. COVID. This is notable because of the oft-told story of Benjamin Britten’s annual jamboree. Fire at Snape Maltings Concert Hall back in 1967 on the eve of that year’s festival might have threatened proceedings.…