Tag: Aldeburgh Festival
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Review – Carducci Quartet play Kurtag, Clarke, Reich and Debussy at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
The Carducci Quartet brought Kurtág, Reich, Clarke and Debussy to the Britten Studio for a programme spanning a century of string quartet writing. Not everything landed. But the playing undoubtedly did.
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Review – Kristian Bezuidenhout plays Schubert at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
The idea of hearing any Schubert piano music on a modern piano now feels like a shameful act of betrayal after Bezuidenhout’s Aldeburgh concert.
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Podcast: 233 – ‘Belly of the Beast’: Mahogany Opera and Dunedin Consort at Edinburgh, Aldeburgh and Spitalfields 2026
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre isn’t a name many will recognise — despite an opera that reached the Paris stage in 1694, two books of biblical cantatas published three years apart, in 1708 and 1711, and a career that ran for decades either side of those dates.
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Review – Freya Waley-Cohen’s ‘The Dreamer’ at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
Generous, disciplined, written for exactly the player performing it — Aldeburgh’s world premiere doesn’t cower.
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Review – Pelleas et Melisande at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
Debussy’s score constructs an intense interior world and plants ideas in the mind of the listener. Rory Kinnear’s direction strips away distraction. Those ideas grow during and after performance.
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Podcast: Aldeburgh, Snape & Britten’s festival 50 years after his death
Fifty years after Britten’s death, Aldeburgh and Snape still honour the composer’s legacy. But how has the site, the Festival and the organisation adapted. What brings people back?
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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.
