Tag: Aldeburgh Festival
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77TH ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL MARKS 50 YEARS SINCE BRITTEN’S DEATH
A preview of the 2026 Aldeburgh Festival: six world premieres, a major Pelléas et Mélisande, modernist centenaries, and a revitalised Britten–Pears artist-development vision marking fifty years since Britten’s death.
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Long Read – Aldeburgh, Fairy Tales, and a 90-Year-Old Psychodrama
What a music festival, a forest walk, and an unscheduled hospital trip taught about clarity, connection, and coming home.
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Review – BBC Symphony at Aldeburgh Festival 2025
Two standout evenings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the 2025 Aldeburgh Festival, featuring new works by Kidane, Grimes, and Elias alongside Strauss, Britten and Sibelius. Virtuosity, ambition, and moments of startling clarity across the weekend — with Leila Josefowicz and Allan Clayton especially compelling.
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Review – Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra perform Kidane, Turnage and Nielsen at Aldeburgh Festival
Turnage, Nielsen, and Kidane: bold sounds, sharp messages, and orchestral firepower
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Review – Dunedin Consort’s Markus Passion at Aldeburgh Festival 2025
Bach’s Markus-Passion from Dunedin Consort: phenomenal, enthralling, and profound
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Review – Gavin Higgins’ Speak of the North premieres at the Aldeburgh Festival 2025
Speak of the North is evocative, immediate, and unmistakably Higgins Full transparency: I’m a big fan of Gavin Higgins’ work. Colourful, energetic, and thoughtful, Higgins has a knack for handling material that meets the need, meets his need, and meets the needs of the audience. In Speak of the North, he’s built on the strengths…
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Review – Knussen Chamber Orchestra play Helen Grime’s Folk and Britten Nocturne and Suite on English Folk Tunes
This was the first programme with music by Britten in this year’s Aldeburgh Festival, performed by the Knussen Chamber Orchestra made up of musicians from the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music with guest section leaders including Laura van der Heijde and Scott Dickinson. The premiere of Helen Grime’s song cycle Folk…
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Review – Fu & Betts-Dean: Solitude with Schubert
Pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu and mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean’s Solitude with Schubert was a powerful meditation that bound audience and performer close in the shared acknowledgement of grief, articulated by the musical language of Schubert’s bittersweet writing. Originating as a response to restrictions of lockdown, Fu’s exploration of Schubert was at first a creative response to…
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Review – Colin Matthews’ A Visit to Friends
A beautifully coordinated work, craft and musical ingenuity, easy to admire, with a hint of ambiguity thrown in too.
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Imogen Holst’s Aldeburgh home awarded Grade II listed status
Imo’s modest retreat with its rich musical legacy—now officially recognised.