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66th <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> 7–23 june <strong>2013</strong><br />
1913<br />
Britten<br />
lives here<br />
<strong>2013</strong>
The 66th <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> is at the centre of <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong>’s yearlong<br />
celebration of a great composer and visionary, our founder Benjamin<br />
Britten. This is a chance to encounter Britten and his remarkable legacy<br />
in ways you simply won’t find anywhere else.<br />
There will be iconic performances of Peter Grimes in the location that<br />
inspired it and The Church Parables in their original venue; an insight into<br />
our year-long Friday Afternoons singing project highlighting Britten’s<br />
pioneering work with children and amateurs; and our Inspired by Britten<br />
series showcasing his ever-widening cultural influence, featuring over<br />
20 commissions across different musical genres and art-forms.<br />
Britten wanted <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> to be about much more than just his music,<br />
so amongst a myriad of other events, you will be able to hear Sir John Eliot<br />
Gardiner’s Bach and the transcendental music of a modern master,<br />
Jonathan Harvey. Join us on the Suffolk coast for what promises to be<br />
an unforgettable celebration of a major British cultural icon.<br />
Benjamin Britten on <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> beach Courtesy of the Britten–Pears Foundation, photographer Hans Wild 1959
Book your ticket<br />
Online www.aldeburgh.co.uk<br />
By phone 01728 687110<br />
In Person<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> High Street Mon–Sat 10am–4pm<br />
Snape Maltings Concert Hall Mon–Sun 10am–4pm<br />
or start of evening concert<br />
By Post<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong>, Snape Maltings Concert Hall<br />
Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP<br />
By Email boxoffice@aldeburgh.co.uk<br />
Priority booking only until Tuesday 12 February<br />
General booking opens Wednesday 13 February<br />
For further information please see page 55<br />
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The Pumphouse<br />
The Pumphouse is <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>’s informal,<br />
alternative performance venue and bar, open<br />
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays during the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>. In addition to the Cabaret Songs event<br />
on Saturday 8 June (see page 11), we will be<br />
announcing a full programme of weekend events<br />
at the Pumphouse in the Spring. Check<br />
www.aldeburgh.co.uk from April to find out more.<br />
Britten 100<br />
For information about Britten<br />
centenary events worldwide visit<br />
www.britten100.org<br />
For information about other Britten events in<br />
Suffolk and Norfolk visit www.familiarfields.org<br />
For full details of all events<br />
visit: www.aldeburgh.co.uk<br />
And visit <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong>’s new Britten<br />
Centenary site: www.aldeburgh.co.uk/britten
Sixty-sixth<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> of<br />
<strong>Music</strong> and the Arts<br />
7–23 June <strong>2013</strong><br />
Pierre-Laurent Aimard Artistic Director<br />
Colin Matthews Guest Artistic Associate<br />
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Contents<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Programme 4<br />
Visual Arts 52<br />
How to find us 54<br />
General Information 54<br />
Booking details 55<br />
Discounts/Tickets 55<br />
Access 56<br />
Eating at Snape 56<br />
Seating Plan 57<br />
Where to stay 58<br />
Where to eat 62<br />
What else to do 62<br />
Other exhibitions 63<br />
Acknowledgements 65<br />
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The firsT <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> fesTivAl Took<br />
plAce from 5 To 13 June 1948, wiTh<br />
The firsT concerT A performAnce<br />
of briTTen’s sAinT nicolAs AT<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> pArish church.<br />
Britten lives here<br />
The richness of Britten’s life and vision continues to inspire<br />
everything we do. Take a look through our brochures this year<br />
to find 100 insights into Britten and <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong> today<br />
– from the world-conquering to the domestic and the quirky.<br />
Look out for the numbered circles.<br />
Grateful thanks<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong> is extremely grateful to the following for their<br />
generous contributions to our Britten Centenary programme:<br />
André and Rosalie Hoffmann, Sir Siegmund Warburg’s<br />
Voluntary Settlement, Britten Centenary Circle supporters<br />
We also thank the following for their support of the 66th<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>: Cambridge Assessment, Easton Farm<br />
Park, The Holst Foundation, Rexam
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Grimes in <strong>Aldeburgh</strong><br />
Peter Grimes, arguably Britten’s greatest<br />
opera, comes home. With a series of<br />
concerts and a unique realisation on the<br />
beach, plus The Borough, a dark journey<br />
through the <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> of Peter Grimes<br />
devised by Punchdrunk, this special<br />
exploration is undoubtedly one of the<br />
centenary highlights.<br />
Friday 7 & Sunday 9 June<br />
Peter Grimes: in concert<br />
Snape Maltings Concert Hall<br />
Monday 17, Wednesday 19 & Friday 21 June<br />
Grimes on the Beach<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Beach<br />
Peter Grimes + Grimes on<br />
the Beach 2-event package<br />
Come to both concert and beach<br />
performances and receive a<br />
discounted ticket deal.<br />
Tickets<br />
Including bench seating for<br />
Grimes on the Beach: £93<br />
Sitting on the beach: £67, £53, £30<br />
Under 27s half price<br />
Grimes in <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> is supported<br />
by a Britten 100 award from the<br />
Britten–Pears Foundation<br />
7 – 23 June (throughout the <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>)<br />
The Borough<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Town See event listings for full details
Friday 7 June 7.30pm<br />
Peter Grimes<br />
In concert<br />
Cast includes: Alan Oke (Peter Grimes), Giselle Allen<br />
(Ellen Orford), David Kempster (Captain Balstrode)<br />
and Gaynor Keeble, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Robert Murray,<br />
Henry Waddington, Christopher Gillett, Stephen Richardson,<br />
Charles Rice, Lexi Hutton, Charmian Bedford<br />
Steuart Bedford conductor<br />
The Chorus of Opera North with the Chorus of the<br />
Guildhall School of <strong>Music</strong> and Drama<br />
Britten–Pears Orchestra<br />
Benjamin Britten music<br />
Montagu Slater words<br />
‘I hear those voices that will not be drowned’<br />
Peter Grimes<br />
Peter Grimes is an outsider in ‘The Borough’, a<br />
fictionalised version of <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> that first appeared<br />
in George Crabbe’s poem in 1810. Yet in contrast to<br />
Crabbe’s sadistic fisherman, Britten’s Grimes emerges<br />
as an enigmatic anti-hero. Is he responsible for the<br />
death of his young apprentice? Is he mad, evil or a<br />
misunderstood visionary?<br />
Britten’s early masterpiece has captured the<br />
imagination of audiences around the world ever since<br />
its premiere in the aftermath of the second world war.<br />
First written for Peter Pears, the role of Grimes is<br />
sung by Alan Oke, who received huge critical acclaim<br />
for his portrayal of Aschenbach in the 2007<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> production of Death in Venice.<br />
This concert performance gives you a rare chance to<br />
hear the opera in the magnificent concert hall that<br />
Britten built.<br />
‘In a flash I realised two things: that I must write an<br />
opera, and where I belonged.’<br />
Britten recalling the moment in 1941 while in America, when he<br />
first read George Crabbe’s poem The Borough<br />
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 10.30pm)<br />
Tickets £34, £29, £22, £15 Under 27s half price<br />
For Grimes in <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> package deal, see page 4<br />
Coaches £4 A (5.30pm), B (6.30pm)<br />
Pre-performance talk with Grimes on the Beach director,<br />
Tim Albery and others. Britten Studio, Snape 6pm.<br />
Admission free but please book<br />
This performance is supported by<br />
Lindsay & Sarah Tomlinson<br />
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Friday 7 – Sunday 23 June<br />
The Borough<br />
A theatrical journey through Peter Grimes’ <strong>Aldeburgh</strong><br />
Punchdrunk Theatre Company and its artistic director<br />
Felix Barrett are pioneers in a highly individual form of<br />
theatre, focusing as much on audience members and<br />
the surroundings as the performers and the narrative.<br />
Lines between spaces, performer and spectator blur<br />
to create an unforgettable experience. This version<br />
sets the story somewhere between George Crabbe’s<br />
poem The Borough and Britten’s masterpiece, Peter<br />
Grimes. It will take audience members on individual<br />
theatrical journeys around Grimes’ town, following in<br />
his footsteps and hearing Britten’s score.<br />
Walking shoes are recommended as some of the route<br />
may be uneven and wet.<br />
Tickets £29 Under 27s half price<br />
Online and telephone booking only. Lasts approx<br />
1 hour. More information will be sent to bookers in<br />
advance of the event.<br />
Working in partnership with the Britten–Pears<br />
Foundation with public funding from the National<br />
Lottery through Arts Council England<br />
Sponsored by
Saturday 8 June 11am<br />
Aimard & Aimard<br />
Valérie Aimard cello<br />
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano<br />
Shostakovich Aphorisms Elliott Carter Cello Sonata<br />
György Kurtág Jelék for solo cello; Jatékok for solo<br />
piano (excerpts) Britten Sonata in C<br />
With his sister Valérie, <strong>Aldeburgh</strong>’s Artistic Director<br />
marks Britten’s centenary with a concert of four<br />
composers central to the history of <strong>Aldeburgh</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong>, revealing some surprising similarities. Are<br />
Carter’s snappy syncopations a transatlantic echo of<br />
Shostakovich’s acerbic wit and Kurtág’s compact,<br />
expressive gestures laden with the same potency as<br />
the sparse opening fragments of Britten’s sonata,<br />
which marked the beginning of an inspired<br />
collaboration with Rostropovich? At the heart of it,<br />
the cello’s inimitable voice, forceful but tender,<br />
sighing, singing, whispering, lamenting…<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Parish Church 11am (ends approx 12.45pm)<br />
Tickets £18, £15, £10 Under 27s half price<br />
Supported by Sally Simon, Jane Caplan &<br />
Charlotte Caplan<br />
Saturday 8 June 1pm<br />
SNAP <strong>2013</strong> Launch<br />
Art inspired by Britten<br />
The launch of this year’s <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
contemporary visual art show with artists featured<br />
in the 2011 and 2012 shows returning with<br />
Britten-inspired works. See page 52 for details.<br />
Snape 1pm<br />
Tickets Free event, no ticket required<br />
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‘new ArrAngemenTs Are mAde ThAT my sinf.<br />
should sound less like Aenemic cATs’<br />
(14 ocTober 1932). Aged 18, britten writes his<br />
opus 1, the sinfonietta. following difficulty<br />
assembling the student players for rehearsals,<br />
britten writes in his diary.<br />
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Introducing Jonathan Harvey<br />
Jonathan Harvey (1939–2012), like many<br />
of today’s leading British composers, was<br />
guided by Britten early on his career.<br />
Today he is a truly international figure.<br />
The contrast of his quintessentially Anglican<br />
English upbringing and his later turn to<br />
Buddhism is reflected in his all-encompassing,<br />
multi-layered, transcendenta music.<br />
‘Wonderfully warm, deeply human, Jonathan<br />
embodied the light that radiates from his<br />
works. Humble and fervent, he combined<br />
serene spirituality and pioneering freshness<br />
which made him one of the great exponents<br />
of music using electronics.<br />
We had long planned a <strong>Festival</strong> focus on<br />
his music. The announcement of his death<br />
as we went to print has plunged us all into<br />
great sadness. The <strong>2013</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> will be<br />
our farewell to this exquisite artist and<br />
our tribute to one of Britain’s great creative<br />
figures.’ Pierre-Laurent Aimard<br />
Saturday 8 June 4pm<br />
Angels in Blythburgh<br />
Latvian Radio Choir<br />
Jane Mitchell flute<br />
Oliver Coates cello Clive Williamson keyboards<br />
Carl Faia electronics designer Kaspars Putniņš conductor<br />
Jonathan Harvey The Angels; The Annunciation;<br />
Marahi; The Summer Cloud’s Awakening<br />
Byrd Sing Joyfully Unto God; Ave verum corpus<br />
Tallis Salvator mundi<br />
Weelkes Gloria in excelsis Deo<br />
Tomkins When David Heard<br />
Jonathan Harvey’s choral music is distinguished by<br />
an often ecstatic lyricism and a serene spirituality,<br />
where the purity of the human voice contrasts with<br />
startling vocal explorations stretching the possibilities<br />
of choral sound to its very boundaries. This is<br />
astonishing music of multi-layered intricacy that exerts<br />
a direct emotional pull, alluding to other music,<br />
cultures and centuries, yet speaking with one voice,<br />
seemingly timeless and yet recognisably of today.<br />
The Latvian Radio Choir’s recent rapturously-received<br />
recording demonstrated their virtuosity and affinity<br />
with this music. Here they tellingly pair Harvey
with Tudor anthems – a set of celebratory hymns<br />
and psalms and devotional prayers that contain<br />
some of the highpoints of English sacred repertoire.<br />
‘No British choir sings with the precision and<br />
vibrato-free purity of this brilliant group from Riga’<br />
The Independent<br />
Blythburgh Church 4pm (ends approx 5.40pm)<br />
Tickets £19, £16, £10 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £7 (3pm)<br />
Supported by Anthony Mackintosh<br />
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from The ‘modesT fesTivAl for A few friends’<br />
imAgined by peTer peArs, <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> fesTivAl<br />
now sells 20,000 TickeTs per yeAr.<br />
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Saturday 8 June 8pm<br />
Les Illuminations<br />
Britten Sinfonia • Sandrine Piau soprano<br />
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor<br />
Tippett Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli<br />
Judith Weir I give you the end of a golden string<br />
(world premiere*) Britten Les Illuminations<br />
Britten orch. Colin Matthews Three Songs for<br />
Les Illuminations<br />
Bartók <strong>Music</strong> for Strings, Percussion and Celeste<br />
In Britten’s Rimbaud songs the sensuality of the texts<br />
is matched in agile, feverish music for strings which<br />
trembles, shimmers and seduces. The French soprano<br />
Sandrine Piau, who premiered Colin Matthews’<br />
completion of Britten’s three additional Rimbaud<br />
songs, makes her <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> debut.<br />
Judith Weir, citing Tippett’s work as a model, sets a<br />
small group of soloists against a larger body of strings<br />
in the style of a baroque concerto grosso. Bartók’s<br />
masterpiece weaves its magic from threads of folk<br />
music, sprightly dance rhythms and a compelling<br />
‘night music’ episode that conjures an atmosphere of<br />
fantasy and dreams.<br />
*<strong>2013</strong> RPS/BPF commission (see box, right)<br />
Snape 8pm (ends approx 10.10pm)<br />
Tickets £32, £28, £24, £19, £14 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (6.30pm)<br />
Pre-performance talk with Judith Weir. Peter Pears<br />
Recital Room 7pm. Admission free, but please book.<br />
Sponsored by<br />
Supported by Clive & Eileen Schlee<br />
<strong>2013</strong> RPS / BPF Commissions Sally Beamish,<br />
Harrison Birtwistle, Charlotte Bray, Magnus<br />
Lindberg, Anna Meredith, Thea Musgrave,<br />
Wolfgang Rihm, Poul Ruders and Judith Weir have<br />
received <strong>2013</strong> Royal Philharmonic Society /<br />
Britten–Pears Foundation commissions to celebrate<br />
Britten’s centenary and the bicentenary of the<br />
foundation of the Royal Philharmonic Society.
Saturday 8 June 6pm & 10.30pm<br />
Cabaret Songs<br />
Inspired by Britten<br />
Jamie McDermott vocals<br />
Conor Mitchell, Benjamin Britten music<br />
Mark Ravenhill, WH Auden words<br />
Could Britten’s delightful foray into popular song have<br />
been early coded love letters to the man with whom<br />
he was to share the rest of his life? Eight decades on,<br />
Conor Mitchell’s new settings of new lyrics by<br />
playwright Mark Ravenhill capture and embellish the<br />
atmosphere of heady excitement and emotional<br />
anxiety of a blossoming love affair. Originally written<br />
for an actress, Britten’s cabaret songs are given new<br />
life by Jamie McDermott, charismatic vocalist of<br />
quirky and theatrical indie band, The Irrepressibles,<br />
His sultry falsetto brings new colour and poignancy<br />
to a radical re-imagining of Britten’s originals, sung<br />
alongside new Mitchell settings of song lyrics that<br />
Auden intended for Britten but were never used, and<br />
a brand new set of cabaret songs they have inspired.<br />
Pumphouse, <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> 6pm, repeated at 10.30pm<br />
(ends approx 7pm & 11.30pm)<br />
Tickets £12 Under 27s half price<br />
Sunday 9 June 10.30am<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Service<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Parish Church has always been central to<br />
the <strong>Festival</strong>, hosting the very first concert in 1948.<br />
Visitors, parishioners and <strong>Festival</strong>-goers join together<br />
for the <strong>Festival</strong> Service led by Revd Canon Nigel<br />
Hartley. The sung mass is Britten’s Missa Brevis,<br />
sung by the choristers of King’s College Cambridge<br />
under director Stephen Cleobury.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Parish Church 10.30am<br />
Tickets Free event, no ticket required<br />
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‘AfTer dinner lennox b. & chrisTopher<br />
isherwood come To heAr peTer sing my new<br />
songs… peTer sings Them well – if he sTudies<br />
he will be A very good singer. he’s cerTAinly one<br />
of The nicesT people i know’ (15 ocTober 1937).<br />
britten had recently met peter pears, who was to become<br />
his life-long partner.<br />
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Sunday 9 June 3pm<br />
Friday Afternoons<br />
New London Children’s Choir • Ronald Corp conductor<br />
Sally Beamish, Charlotte Bray, Anna Meredith,<br />
Thea Musgrave Innocence and Experience*<br />
(world premiere) Britten Friday Afternoons<br />
Britten’s effervescent children’s song book sparkles<br />
as brightly for today’s young performers and<br />
audiences as they did when they were written 80<br />
years ago. The music at the heart of <strong>Aldeburgh</strong><br />
<strong>Music</strong>’s most ambitious centenary celebration – a<br />
nationwide singing project for over 100,000 children<br />
– is accompanied by a major new twenty-first<br />
century song book with settings from Blake’s famous<br />
illustrated poetry collection.<br />
*<strong>2013</strong> RPS/BPF commission (see page 10)<br />
To find out more about <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong>’s Friday Afternoons<br />
project, visit www.fridayafternoonsmusic.co.uk<br />
Orford Church 3pm (ends approx 3.45pm) No interval<br />
Tickets £14, £12, £10 Under 27s half price<br />
Family deal Under 16s £5<br />
Coach £6 (2pm) returning after 4.30pm concert<br />
Supported by the Bernarr Rainbow Trust<br />
Sunday 9 June 4.30pm<br />
Voices for Today<br />
New London Children’s Choir<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Voices<br />
Latvian Radio Choir<br />
Ronald Corp, Ben Parry, Kaspars Putniņš conductors<br />
Britten Pacifist March<br />
Shostakovich 10 Poems Op 66 [extracts]<br />
Santa Ratniece Horo horo hata hata<br />
Jonathan Harvey Plainsongs for Peace and Light<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
Britten Voices for Today<br />
A Britten rarity, Voices for Today is a contemplative<br />
anthem for children’s and adult choirs celebrating<br />
‘great peace lovers of history’. Commissioned for the<br />
twentieth anniversary of the United Nations and<br />
presented in simultaneous triple premiere in New York,<br />
Paris and London, it appeared little over a year after<br />
the searing impression made by the War Requiem’s<br />
first performances. His rousing chorus for the Peace<br />
Pledge Union frames Shostakovich’s spirited socialist<br />
anthems and Jonathan Harvey’s last choral work.<br />
Orford Church 4.30pm (ends approx 5.30pm) No interval<br />
Tickets £14, £12, £10 Under 27s half price
Sunday 9 June 7.30pm<br />
Peter Grimes<br />
In concert<br />
Cast includes: Alan Oke (Peter Grimes), Giselle Allen<br />
(Ellen Orford), David Kempster (Captain Balstrode)<br />
and Gaynor Keeble, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Robert Murray,<br />
Henry Waddington, Christopher Gillett, Stephen Richardson,<br />
Charles Rice, Lexi Hutton, Charmian Bedford<br />
Steuart Bedford conductor The Chorus of Opera North<br />
with the Chorus of the Guildhall School of <strong>Music</strong> and Drama<br />
Britten–Pears Orchestra<br />
Benjamin Britten music Montagu Slater words<br />
See Friday 7 June for details.<br />
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 10.30pm) Tickets £34,<br />
£29, £22, £15 Under 27s half price. For Grimes in<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> package deal, see page 4 Coach £4 (6.30pm)<br />
This performance is supported by Barry Ife and a<br />
syndicate of individuals<br />
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Monday 10 June 11am<br />
Hesse Lecture<br />
Professor Sir Adam Roberts: Pacifism in Britten’s time<br />
and today<br />
Britten was a fervent pacifist throughout his life, starting<br />
with an anti-hunting essay written at school, to his<br />
concerts with Yehudi Menuhin in the newly liberated<br />
Belsen to a number of works that addressed this belief,<br />
most notably War Requiem. Being a pacifist during a<br />
world war required a moral courage that Britten<br />
frequently showed and was a very different proposition to<br />
the notion of pacifism today. Professor Sir Adam Roberts,<br />
a leading figure in the field of international relations,<br />
discusses how pacifism has changed since Britten’s time.<br />
Adam Roberts is Emeritus Professor of International<br />
Relations at Oxford University and President of the<br />
British Academy, the UK’s national academy for the<br />
humanities and social sciences<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Cinema 11am (ends approx 12.30pm)<br />
Tickets £12 Under 27s half price<br />
in 1933–5 briTTen wroTe A cycle of songs for clive house school in presTATyn, wAles, where his broTher<br />
wAs heAdmAsTer. The songs, Friday aFternoons, Are The bAsis of <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> music’s mosT AmbiTious<br />
briTTen cenTenAry proJecT, Aiming To geT 100,000 young people singing briTTen on 22 november <strong>2013</strong>.<br />
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in 2012 <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> music generATed<br />
8540 kwh of elecTriciTy from iTs<br />
phoTovolTAic solAr pAnels.<br />
Monday 10 June 3pm<br />
Vertavo Quartet<br />
Poul Ruders Quartet No.4*<br />
Mozart Quartet Op.465 in C major ‘Dissonance’<br />
Britten Quartet No.2<br />
Britten’s bold, expansive quartet – a homage to<br />
Purcell – appeared less than six months after the<br />
tumultuous success of Peter Grimes. The cumulative<br />
power of the titanic final movement’s variants on a<br />
Purcellian ground bass is a fitting tribute.<br />
Mozart’s quartet must have shocked with the startling<br />
opening harmonies that earned it its nickname, but it<br />
continues with the music of characteristic zest and<br />
elegance. Janus-like, the music of Poul Ruders often<br />
alternates explosive high spirits with a dark,<br />
introspective, haunting beauty.<br />
*<strong>2013</strong> RPS/BPF commission (see page 10)<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Parish Church 3pm (ends approx 4.45pm)<br />
Tickets £18, £16, £10 Under 27s half price<br />
Pre-performance talk Poul Ruders discusses his work.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Parish Church 2pm. Free, but please book<br />
Supported by David Heckels
Monday 10 June 7.30pm<br />
Sandrine Piau<br />
Sandrine Piau soprano Susan Manoff piano<br />
Mendelssohn Neue Liebe; Nachtlied;<br />
Hexenlied (Anderes Maienlied)<br />
Chausson Amour d’antan; Dans la forêt du charme et<br />
de l’enchantement; Les heures<br />
Berg Seven Early Songs Debussy Fêtes Galantes Book I<br />
Richard Strauss Morgen; Die Nacht Op 10 No 3;<br />
Ständchen Schoenberg Four Songs Op 2<br />
Britten The Sally Gardens; There’s none to soothe; I<br />
wonder as I wander<br />
One of today’s most sought-after sopranos makes<br />
her <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> recital debut in an eye-catching<br />
programme. A great communicator who works on the<br />
opera and concert hall stage, her reputation has been<br />
founded on superb characterful performances<br />
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of baroque and classical music. Here however she<br />
allies her sharp-edged clarity and easy unaffected<br />
warmth to nocturnal songs from the German Romantic<br />
tradition (the young Mendelssohn and Richard<br />
Strauss). These are blended with an intoxicating<br />
selection of music from the turbulent decades that<br />
straddle the turn of the twentieth century. There<br />
is a thrilling potency to every footstep, every new<br />
departure taken by the young Berg, Schoenberg<br />
and Debussy. By contrast the cool detachment of<br />
Britten’s idiosyncratic folk song arrangements seem<br />
to heighten the emotional directness of deeply-rooted<br />
popular songs from England, Scotland and the USA.<br />
‘her singing has a wonderful, uncomplicated directness,<br />
utterly free of mannerisms or affectation’ The Guardian<br />
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 9.10pm)<br />
Tickets £20, £18, £15, £12, £10 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (6.30pm)<br />
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britten’s has his first piece published in 1932: Three Two-part songs.<br />
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Tuesday 11 June 3pm<br />
Schubert Octet<br />
Ensemble 360<br />
Britten Movement for Wind Sextet<br />
Janáček Mladi (‘Youth’)<br />
Schubert Octet<br />
Schubert’s magisterial, perennially popular work sings<br />
as warmly and pulses with the same energy as any<br />
symphony, but it is typical of the composer that a rich<br />
lyricism and predominantly sunny disposition cannot<br />
fully mask fleeting shadows – this happy stream of<br />
invention runs with deeper, darker undercurrents.<br />
Fluidity of musical thought and choppier waters too<br />
in Janáček’s buoyant wind sextet and, opening the<br />
programme, a composer in his formative years but<br />
already developing a distinctive style of his own –<br />
the seventeen-year old Benjamin Britten.<br />
Ensemble 360’s burgeoning reputation is founded on<br />
thoughtful but thrillingly immediate performances of<br />
large-scale chamber music such as this.<br />
Blythburgh Church 3pm (ends approx 4.50pm)<br />
Tickets £18, £15, £9 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £7 (2pm)<br />
Supported by Shirley Ellis<br />
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Tuesday 11 June 7.30pm<br />
Piano Century: 1913–<strong>2013</strong><br />
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano<br />
Debussy Étude pour les quartes<br />
Stravinsky Piano Rag <strong>Music</strong><br />
Ives 3 improvisations<br />
Messiaen Regard des anges (from Vingt Regards sur<br />
l’Enfant-Jesus)<br />
Cage 4’33<br />
Helmut Lachenmann Guero<br />
Ligeti Automne à Varsovie<br />
Plus extracts from Prokofiev Sarcasms; Schoenberg<br />
Five Piano Pieces; Kurtág Jatékok; Harrison Birtwistle<br />
Harrison’s Clocks; music by Bartók, Cowell,<br />
Stockhausen, Carter, Pierre Boulez, Marco Stroppa,<br />
Tristan Murail and George Benjamin; and premieres<br />
of new commissions from young composers from the<br />
Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme<br />
A centenary tribute with a difference: Pierre-Laurent<br />
Aimard leads us on an extraordinary and brilliantly<br />
original tour of one hundred years of music featuring<br />
over twenty composers in one concert. Aimard’s<br />
itinerary takes in Kurtág’s whimsical games and Ives’<br />
quirky fantasias and the ferocious momentum of<br />
Harrison Birtwistle and Ligeti. Along the way are<br />
fleeting glimpses familiar to <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
audiences – music from recent guests George<br />
Benjamin, Elliott Carter and Marco Stroppa. There<br />
are radical new compositional departures distilled at<br />
the keyboard in pivotal works by Schoenberg, Boulez<br />
and Stockhausen; and Debussy, Murail, and Messiaen<br />
finding beauty in the seemingly infinite possibilities<br />
within the piano’s harmonic palette. There are<br />
moments that seem to question the piano’s role<br />
– Lachenmann’s ingenious Guero – and (in Cage’s now<br />
infamous concept) even the nature of music itself.<br />
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 10pm)<br />
Tickets £20, £18, £15, £12, £10 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (6.30pm)<br />
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The <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> fesTivAl is JusT pArT of The<br />
progrAmme AT <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> music, which now<br />
feATures over 200 performAnces per yeAr.<br />
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Wednesday 12 June 9.30am<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Walk I<br />
A coastal walk from Kessingland to Britten’s birthplace<br />
in Lowestoft<br />
A wide expanse of dunes and beach will greet you<br />
as we start a gentle walk along the coast from<br />
Kessingland to Benjamin Britten’s birthplace at<br />
Lowestoft. We visit the two semi-detached churches<br />
at Pakefi eld and pass its secret lighthouse. The three<br />
settlements of Pakefi eld, Kirkley and Lowestoft<br />
make up this often ignored lovely stretch of coast,<br />
which ends at the most easterly point of England.<br />
The fountains will be playing his music and the<br />
promenade decked out with banners as the town<br />
celebrates the centenary of Britten’s birth. This is not<br />
a circular walk. We regret dogs cannot be brought.<br />
Coaches from 9.30am, departing from Moot Hall,<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong>, returning approx 4.30pm. Distance approx<br />
6 miles. Tickets £22, including coach and lunch<br />
With support from<br />
Wednesday 12 June 7.30pm<br />
Guy Barker: That Obscure Hurt<br />
Inspired by Britten<br />
BBC Concert Orchestra<br />
Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra<br />
Guy Barker director<br />
An expat businessman voyages back to London to sell<br />
his Soho jazz club, but while spending a fi nal night<br />
there he is stopped in his tracks by meeting the ghost<br />
of his younger self…<br />
Britten wrote two operas based on ghost stories by<br />
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw and Owen<br />
Wingrave. Jazz trumpeter and composer Guy Barker,<br />
working with author Robert Ryan, takes the<br />
completion of a James ghost story trilogy as his<br />
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“The Turn of The screw” by henry JAmes.’<br />
in 1932 britten fi rst hears the play from which he<br />
would create his opera, premiered in 1954.
starting point for an ambitious new work. From Ryan’s<br />
adaptation of James’ supernatural short story The<br />
Jolly Corner, a narrative with sly allusion to both jazz<br />
history and the librettos of Britten operas within its<br />
colourful fabric, Barker creates a new, 70-minute<br />
suite for the massive combined forces of jazz and<br />
symphony orchestras, taking the audience on a taut<br />
and dramatic journey.<br />
Co-commissioned by <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong> and<br />
BBC Radio 3, part of <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong>’s Inspired by<br />
Britten series.<br />
‘cinematically evocative contemporary jazz’<br />
The Guardian on Guy Barker and Robert Ryan’s Mozart-inspired<br />
collaboration, The Amadeus Project<br />
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 8.50pm) No interval<br />
Tickets £22, £19, £16, £13, £10 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (6pm)<br />
Pre-performance talk Guy Barker, Rob Ryan and<br />
Andrew Kurowski. Peter Pears Recital Room 6.30pm.<br />
Admission free but please book.<br />
Sponsored by<br />
Thursday 13 June 2pm<br />
Britten on Film I<br />
Britten in Suffolk<br />
A double bill of documentaries filmed by the BBC in<br />
1967 and introduced by their director Tony Palmer<br />
and producer Humphrey Burton.<br />
A high spirited celebratory portrait, Benjamin Britten<br />
and his <strong>Festival</strong> was one of BBC TV’s first colour<br />
films. It features highlights of the 20th festival,<br />
including the Queen’s visit to open Snape Maltings<br />
Concert Hall, the Vienna Boys Choir, the English<br />
Opera Group, Julian Bream, Joyce Grenfell and<br />
Britten himself in a legendary two-piano Mozart<br />
performance with Sviatoslav Richter.<br />
The Burning Fiery Furnace is a fly on the wall<br />
account of the recording sessions held in Orford a<br />
few days before the 1967 festival began.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Cinema 2pm (ends approx 4.30pm)<br />
Tickets £8 Under 27s half price<br />
There will be a 15-minute interval between screenings.<br />
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Thursday 13 June 5.30pm<br />
He Who Pays the Piper<br />
Writer and broadcaster Tom Service chairs a panel<br />
exploring how new music is commissioned. Who<br />
wants commissions? Composers? Audiences? Should<br />
commissions be allowed ‘to fail’ and if so, in these<br />
precarious economic times, who will pay? What can be<br />
expected of the commissioning process in the future?<br />
Panel to include: Colin Matthews (composer),<br />
Janis Susskind, (Boosey & Hawkes), Rosemary Johnson<br />
(Royal Philharmonic Society), Philip Cashian,<br />
(Composer and Head of Composition, Royal Academy<br />
of <strong>Music</strong>).<br />
This event is part of the Royal Philharmonic Society<br />
Bicentenary Celebrations, 1813–<strong>2013</strong>.<br />
Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape 5.30pm.<br />
Admission free but please book.<br />
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sTeven isserlis, michAel chAnce, iAin burnside,<br />
Jeffrey TATe, JAne glover And nicolA lefAnu.<br />
Thursday 13 June 7.30pm<br />
Songs from the Same Earth<br />
Mark Padmore tenor Till Fellner piano<br />
Britten Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente<br />
Harrison Birtwistle Songs from the Same Earth<br />
(world premiere*) Schumann Dichterliebe<br />
Pairing Britten’s only German song collection with<br />
Schumann acknowledges his debt to one of the grand<br />
masters of Romantic lieder. But while Schumann’s<br />
magnificent cycle creates a large canvas on which to<br />
draw his protagonist’s desires and despair, Britten’s is<br />
a miracle of concision where every phrase is potent,<br />
every song a fleeting impression befitting the ‘fragments’<br />
of the title. Birtwistle’s major new cycle reunites<br />
composer, writer David Harsent and lead role from his<br />
2009 <strong>Aldeburgh</strong>-commissioned opera, The Corridor.<br />
*<strong>2013</strong> RPS/BPF commission (see page 10)<br />
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 9.40pm)<br />
Tickets £22, £19, £16, £13, £10 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (6pm)<br />
Pre-performance talk with Harrison Birtwistle<br />
Peter Pears Recital Room 6.30pm. Free but please book.<br />
Supported by Peter & Veronica Lofthouse
Friday 14 June 11am<br />
Britten–Pears Young Artists I<br />
Mivos Quartet • Lorenzo Soules piano<br />
Byrd arr. Joshua Modney Mass for 4 Voices<br />
Thomas Adès Darknesse Visible Britten Quartet No.3<br />
<strong>Music</strong> from the English Renaissance explodes into<br />
fragments in Adès’ solo piano piece illuminating<br />
Dowland’s lute song ‘from the inside’. Memories of<br />
the past similarly inspire the ailing Britten’s last<br />
chamber work: Venice – a place of deep consolation<br />
for him and echoes of the opera Death in Venice<br />
merge with, inevitably, the spectre of death itself.<br />
The work’s calm resignation and gently rocking fi nale<br />
is a poignant farewell. ‘I wanted the work to end with<br />
a question’, said the composer.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Parish Church 11am (ends approx 12.35pm)<br />
Tickets £13, £10, £6 Under 27s half price<br />
Supported by Alan & Judi Britten<br />
The Britten–Pears Young<br />
Artist Programme is<br />
generously supported by<br />
Friday 14 June 3pm<br />
Perspectives on Britten<br />
With Alexandra Harris, Mark Padmore, Tom Service<br />
and Rob Young<br />
Our panel places Britten’s life and music in context.<br />
Rob Young, who wrote Electric Eden – Unearthing<br />
Britain’s Visionary <strong>Music</strong>, discusses the concept of<br />
Englishness in music. Writer Alexandra Harris<br />
positions Britten against a wider cultural background.<br />
Her book Romantic Moderns looked at English artists<br />
just before World War II – a moment of truth for the<br />
arts in this country – and she also edited Modernism,<br />
exploring the rich cultural heritage of coastal Britain.<br />
Tenor Mark Padmore offers a performer’s eye view.<br />
Writer and broadcaster Tom Service chairs the<br />
discussion.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Cinema 3pm (ends approx 4.30pm)<br />
Tickets £10 Under 27s half price<br />
Hesse Students Concert Students have been<br />
assisting with running <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> concerts in<br />
return for free tickets for over half a century. This is<br />
the fi rst of their popular end-of-week concerts this<br />
year. Pumphouse, <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> 5pm (ends approx 6pm)<br />
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Friday 14 June 7.30pm<br />
Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra<br />
Kati Debretzeni, Maya Homburger violins<br />
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor<br />
Bach Cantata 37 Wer da glaubet und getauft wird;<br />
Cantata 128 Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein;<br />
Concerto for two Violins in D-Minor;<br />
Cantata 43 Gott fahret auf mit Jauchzen<br />
For nearly five decades Sir John Eliot Gardiner with<br />
his Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra have been<br />
thrilling audiences with performances that marry<br />
freshness, clarity and a peerless vocal virtuosity. With<br />
a remarkable repertoire spanning eight centuries of<br />
western music from sacred music to opera, madrigals<br />
to oratorio, it is perhaps Bach that provides the<br />
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constant, most famously in their extraordinary<br />
millennium pilgrimage project. Here in the first of<br />
two Bach programmes, Ascensiontide cantatas are<br />
wrapped around one of his best-loved instrumental<br />
works, the sublime double violin concerto.<br />
‘If there were a Nobel prize for choirs, the Monteverdi<br />
Choir should be its laureate’ Le Monde<br />
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 9.10pm)<br />
Tickets £38, £32, £27, £22, £16 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (6pm)<br />
Pre-performance talk with Michael White<br />
Peter Pears Recital Room 6.30pm. Admission free<br />
but please book.<br />
Supported by Stephen & Victoria Swift<br />
AfTer briTTen, peTer peArs And imogen holsT, <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> fesTivAl ArTisTic direcTors hAve been<br />
philip ledger, colin grAhAm, sTeuArT bedford, msTislAv rosTropovich, murrAy perAhiA, simon rATTle,<br />
John shirley-Quirk, oliver knussen, ThomAs Ades And pierre-lAurenT AimArd, ofTen collAborATing<br />
wiTh guesT ArTisTic AssociATes.
Saturday 15 June 11am<br />
Quatuor Mosaïques I<br />
Purcell Three Fantasias<br />
Haydn Quartet Op.76 No.6<br />
Schubert Quartet No.15 in G major<br />
Quatuor Mosaïques is the world’s leading period<br />
instrument string quartet. Their gut-stringed<br />
instruments and uncluttered, perceptive<br />
musicianship lead to freshly considered and deeply<br />
satisfying performances of the classical and early<br />
Romantic repertoire. In the first of their two weekend<br />
residency concerts, they pitch us straight into<br />
baroque music and the wonderful improvisatory air of<br />
Purcell’s Fantasias for viol consort as a prelude to the<br />
richness of mature Haydn. Schubert’s monumental<br />
final quartet finds solace amidst the tumult, as the<br />
ailing but still young composer obsesses on an<br />
extraordinary torrent of musical ideas – chamber<br />
music on an epic scale.<br />
Snape 11am (ends approx 12.50pm)<br />
Tickets £20, £18, £15, £12, £10<br />
Under 27s half price Coach £4 (10am)<br />
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phAnTAsy QuArTeT, opus 2, becomes his firsT piece<br />
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conTemporAry music on 17 februAry 1933.<br />
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Saturday 15 June 3pm<br />
Composer Portrait:<br />
Jonathan Harvey<br />
Arditti Quartet • Sound Intermedia<br />
Britten Quartettino<br />
Julian Anderson Light <strong>Music</strong> (world premiere)<br />
Jonathan Harvey Quartet No.2; Quartet No.4<br />
Harvey’s remarkable fourth quartet has the sounds of<br />
the players electronically modified and dispersed to<br />
all corners of the performance space. ‘The quartet is<br />
the dreamer’ writes the composer and the world of<br />
the unconscious imagination is represented in music<br />
that is fluid and multi-dimensional, vivid and profound.<br />
Britten’s early quartet was premiered only 30 years<br />
ago by the Ardittis and is a daring and astonishingly<br />
accomplished work for a teenager. Julian Anderson<br />
and Harvey have often been associated with ‘spectral’<br />
music, coloured by analysis of the properties of<br />
sound. There is otherworldly beauty to their<br />
explorations of timbre and the undiscovered spaces<br />
between conventional notes and harmonies.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Parish Church 3pm (ends approx 5pm)<br />
Tickets £15, 12, £8 Under 27s half price<br />
A Tribute to Jonathan Harvey Contributors including<br />
composer Julian Anderson share their appreciation<br />
of Jonathan Harvey’s life and music as a prelude<br />
to a performance of his great work for electronics,<br />
Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco.<br />
Britten Studio, Snape 5.45pm (ends approx<br />
6.45pm) Admission free but please book.<br />
Saturday 15 June 7.30pm<br />
Poem of Ecstasy<br />
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra<br />
Ilan Volkov conductor<br />
Richard Watkins horn<br />
Debussy orch. Hans Abrahamsen Children’s Corner<br />
(UK premiere)<br />
Colin Matthews Horn Concerto<br />
Jonathan Harvey 80 Breaths from Tokyo (UK premiere)<br />
Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy<br />
The power and subtlety of a massive symphony<br />
orchestra and its seemingly infinite rainbow of colours<br />
are celebrated in a concert that concludes with<br />
Scriabin’s poem – a gargantuan journey from earthbound
cares to spiritual release compressed into a little over<br />
twenty minutes. Colin Matthews’ beguiling work pits<br />
soloist against orchestra in a theatrical display, with<br />
the soloist moving round the auditorium and his<br />
orchestral horns hunting- and haunting – him from<br />
offstage. Abrahmsen’s arrangements take Debussy’s<br />
delightful piano originals and refashion them into<br />
something new. And at its centre, a major new piece<br />
from featured composer Jonathan Harvey, a<br />
twenty-first century tone poem that is a refined,<br />
gently mesmeric ritual. ‘Breathing’, explains Harvey,<br />
‘is behind all music… 80 Breaths for Tokyo is partly<br />
the result of the practice of Zen breathing, and partly<br />
the result of listening to slow music and enjoying its<br />
power over the mind and body’.<br />
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 9.20pm)<br />
Tickets £32, £28, £24, £19, £14 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (6pm)<br />
Supported by a syndicate of individuals<br />
Saturday 15 June 10pm<br />
Stockhausen: Kontakte<br />
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano<br />
Samuel Favre percussion Marco Stroppa electronics<br />
A sonic tennis match for electronics and live<br />
performers, Kontakte is a 20th century musical icon,<br />
one of the crowning glories of the first wave of<br />
electronic music composition. An inspiration for<br />
artists ranging from Jonathan Harvey to Aphex Twin<br />
and written in 1958–60, before the invention of<br />
musical synthesizers, Stockhausen’s piece was created<br />
using technology designed for radio broadcasting.<br />
This version of the piece, combining electronic sounds<br />
with acoustic piano and percussion, is the pioneering<br />
work which has provided the starting point for the<br />
myriad of artists who have explored this rich world of<br />
possibilities ever since. The ‘contacts’ of the title<br />
emerge as volleys of sound, ‘hit’ between the electronic<br />
and live participants.<br />
‘Karlheinz Stockhausen… has visited the outer reaches of<br />
music and reported back.’ BBC Radio 3 presenter Robert Worby<br />
Britten Studio, Snape 10pm (ends approx 10.45pm)<br />
Tickets £10 Under 27s half price<br />
With support from Fiona MacKenzie & John Cornish<br />
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in 40 yeArs of cATering for sTudenTs on<br />
briTTen–peArs young ArTisT courses,<br />
singers And bAroQue musiciAns hAve been<br />
found To be AlmosT Twice As likely To be<br />
vegeTAriAns As oTher pArTicipAnTs.<br />
Sunday 16 – Saturday 22 June<br />
Centenary Masterclasses:<br />
Britten Song<br />
Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake<br />
Bostridge and Drake share their career-long<br />
experience of Britten’s music with a group of<br />
exceptional young international singers and pianists.<br />
Some of Britten’s most important and personal output<br />
is interspersed with new settings of English poetry<br />
written by Britten–Pears composers.<br />
Public Sessions Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape<br />
16, 17,18, 20, 21 June 2.30 – 4.30pm<br />
Tickets £6 per session or Pass £25 (all sessions)<br />
Recital <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Parish Church<br />
Saturday 22 June 2.30pm Tickets £10<br />
The Britten–Pears Young<br />
Artist Programme is<br />
generously supported by
Sunday 16 June 3pm<br />
Quatuor Mosaïques II<br />
Werner Three Fugues<br />
Haydn Quartet Op 20 No.5<br />
Beethoven Quartet in Bb major Op 130 with<br />
Grosse Fugue Op 133<br />
The art of fugue: music from Gregor Werner, Haydn’s<br />
predecessor at the Esterhazy court sets the<br />
foundation stones for a concert that culminates in<br />
one of the most extraordinary and explosive examples<br />
of the form in music history. Beethoven’s ‘great’<br />
fugue, a conclusion to what is – even without its<br />
finale – a radical and profound late quartet, is so<br />
ambitious in scope and experimental in design that<br />
its shockwaves still resound even to modern ears.<br />
In a way Haydn is no less radical – his own fugal<br />
finale is part of a conscious revival of baroque forms<br />
and the theatrical drama provided by its four<br />
interlocking voices provides tantalizing tiny hints at<br />
what his most famous pupil would achieve.<br />
Britten Studio, Snape 3pm (ends approx 4.55pm)<br />
Tickets £22, £16 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (2pm)<br />
Sunday 16 June 6pm<br />
Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra II<br />
Bach St John Passion<br />
Mark Padmore Evangelist Peter Harvey Pilatus<br />
Matthew Brook Christus Hannah Morrison soprano<br />
Meg Bragle alto Nicholas Mulroy tenor<br />
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor<br />
1964: Sir John Eliot Gardiner forms the Monteverdi<br />
Choir, and forges a partnership that has become a<br />
byword for superlative interpretations and pioneering<br />
practice in early music and beyond, defined by<br />
illuminating and inspiring performances. The same<br />
year, Imogen Holst leaves her <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> post having<br />
established a rich legacy of programming and<br />
performing baroque and pre-baroque music at the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>. Bach’s great Passion has been a touchstone<br />
for Gardiner and <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> and, fittingly, the midpoint<br />
of the Britten centenary <strong>Festival</strong> is marked by one of<br />
the great monuments in musical history in the hands<br />
of one of its most notable modern interpreters.<br />
Snape 6pm (ends approx 8.25pm) No interval<br />
Tickets £44, £37, £30, £25, £18 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (5pm)<br />
Tickets are limited to two per household<br />
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The Church Parables Sunday 16 & Tuesday 18 June, 9.30pm<br />
‘O Curlew River, cruel Curlew<br />
Where all my hope is swept away!’<br />
The Madwoman in Curlew River<br />
A rare opportunity to see Britten’s complete<br />
triptych of music theatre works performed<br />
at Orford Church, the venue for which they<br />
were originally created. His remarkable<br />
re-inventions of the religious drama genre<br />
have been staged at venues around the<br />
world since their premieres at the 1964,<br />
1966 and 1968 <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>s, but<br />
they have a particular resonance here on<br />
the Suffolk coast, where you can hear the<br />
cry of the eponymous curlew, imitated in<br />
the music of Curlew River, on the same<br />
riverside walks that Britten so loved.<br />
Curlew River<br />
Monday 17 & Wednesday 19 June, 7pm<br />
The Burning Fiery Furnace &<br />
The Prodigal Son (double bill)<br />
Mahogany Operas production of<br />
The Church Parables is supported<br />
by a Britten 100 award from the<br />
Britten–Pears Foundation
Sunday 16 June 9.30pm<br />
The Church Parables:<br />
Curlew River<br />
Mahogany Opera<br />
Aurora Orchestra<br />
Frederic Wake-Walker director<br />
Roger Vignoles music director<br />
Kitty Callister designer (after original designs by<br />
Mara Amats)<br />
Ben Payne lighting designer<br />
Cast includes: James Gilchrist, Rodney Earl Clarke,<br />
Samuel Evans, Lukas Jacobski<br />
One of Britten’s most austere and most acclaimed<br />
works is presented in the location that is inseparable<br />
from its creation. Initially inspired by Britten’s<br />
encounter with Noh theatre while on tour in Japan in<br />
1955, Curlew River tells the haunting story of a<br />
mother’s search for her lost son. Britten transforms<br />
the Noh play Sumidagawa into an English medieval<br />
mystery play, capturing remarkable similarities<br />
between the two distant cultures. The setting is<br />
shifted to medieval East Anglia – a feat easily<br />
achieved in Orford’s magnificent twelfth-century<br />
Church of St Bartholomew. Mahogany Opera takes<br />
Britten’s assimilation of East and West, referencing<br />
both Noh tradition and medieval western<br />
iconography. Premiered in Orford at the 1964<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, Curlew River is both heartrending<br />
and remarkably evocative of Britten’s Suffolk:<br />
in the words of composer Robin Holloway, the spare<br />
setting ‘suffices to render river, marsh and circling<br />
birds with startling vividness’.<br />
Orford Church 9.30pm (ends approx 10.45pm)<br />
Tickets £27, £21, £17, £12 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £6 (8.30pm) via Snape<br />
Tickets are limited to two per household<br />
All three operas £69, £54, £45, £33<br />
Under 27s half price<br />
Supported by Garth & Lucy Pollard<br />
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‘Try in vAin To conTinue These hellish pfT<br />
pieces & wAlk frAnTicAlly up And down<br />
The beAch Trying To Think’<br />
britten in lowestoft, 25 september 1934.<br />
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while A sTudenT living in london, briTTen<br />
enTrusTed The cuTTing of his hAir To Two<br />
of The ciTy’s greAT depArTmenT sTores:<br />
whiTeley’s And selfridge’s.<br />
Monday 17 June 11am<br />
Ronald Blythe: Time by the Sea<br />
The Time by the Sea: <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> 1956–58 is a new<br />
memoir by Ronald Blythe, writer and editor of the<br />
Original <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Anthology, during the 1950s.<br />
He had originally come to the Suffolk coast as an<br />
aspiring young writer, but found himself drawn into<br />
Benjamin Britten’s circle and began working for the<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>. Published by Faber for the Britten<br />
centenary, this memoir is an intimate appraisal of a<br />
vivid and memorable time: with Britten he explored<br />
ancient churches; and with the botanist Denis Garrett<br />
he took delight in the marvellous shingle beaches<br />
and marshland plants.<br />
The book will be available to buy at the event and<br />
Ronald Blythe will be signing copies.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Cinema 11am (ends approx 12.15pm)<br />
Tickets £6 Under 27s half price<br />
Centenary Masterclass: Britten Song 2.30pm<br />
Come to Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake’s<br />
masterclass with Britten–Pears young artists<br />
(see page 26). Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape<br />
Tickets £6 (ends approx 4.30pm)
Monday 17 June 7pm<br />
The Church Parables:<br />
The Burning Fiery Furnace<br />
and The Prodigal Son<br />
Mahogany Opera<br />
Aurora Orchestra<br />
Frederic Wake-Walker director<br />
Roger Vignoles music director<br />
Kitty Callister designer (after original designs by<br />
Mara Amats)<br />
Ben Payne lighting designer<br />
Cast includes: James Gilchrist, Rodney Earl Clarke,<br />
John McMunn, Samuel Evans, Douglas Nairne,<br />
Lukas Jacobski<br />
Like Curlew River, Britten’s two subsequent Church<br />
Parables were both written for Orford Church and<br />
were premiered in the <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>s of 1966<br />
and 1968 respectively. They develop the pioneering<br />
ideas of Curlew River – the minimal instrumental and<br />
vocal forces and the inclusion of plainchant – but<br />
have very different moods. With The Burning Fiery<br />
Furnace, Britten aimed to create ‘something much<br />
less sombre, an altogether gayer affair’, based on the<br />
Old Testament story of Nebuchadnezzar and the three 31<br />
Israelites. Meanwhile The Prodigal Son was inspired<br />
by Rembrandt’s painting The Return of the Prodigal,<br />
which Britten had seen two years earlier on a trip to<br />
Leningrad. Mahogany’s production takes the principal<br />
established in Curlew River of merging East with West<br />
and extends it to the two later works, first contrasting<br />
Balinese dance drama with stained glass and then<br />
Middle Eastern Sufism with the art of Rembrandt<br />
and Bosch.<br />
Orford Church 7pm (The Burning Fiery Furnace<br />
7–8.15pm; The Prodigal Son 9.30–10.45pm)<br />
Tickets £48, £38, £31, £22 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £6 (6pm)<br />
Tickets are limited to two per household<br />
All three operas £69, £54, £45, £33<br />
Under 27s half price<br />
Supported by Garth & Lucy Pollard<br />
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new work wAs AT The heArT of briTTen’s<br />
vision for The <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> fesTivAl And in<br />
<strong>2013</strong> <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> music is commissioning<br />
over 50 new pieces.
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Monday 17 June 8.30pm<br />
Grimes on the Beach<br />
Tim Albery director<br />
Leslie Travers set and costume designer<br />
Lucy Carter lighting designer<br />
Sound Intermedia sound design<br />
Cast includes: Alan Oke (Peter Grimes), Giselle Allen<br />
(Ellen Orford), David Kempster (Captain Balstrode)<br />
and Gaynor Keeble, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Robert Murray,<br />
Henry Waddington, Christopher Gillett, Stephen Richardson,<br />
Charles Rice, Lexi Hutton, Charmian Bedford<br />
Steuart Bedford conductor<br />
The Chorus of Opera North and the Chorus of the<br />
Guildhall School of <strong>Music</strong> and Drama<br />
Benjamin Britten music<br />
Montagu Slater words<br />
Britten’s powerful and masterful evocation of the<br />
North Sea in all its moods has become inextricably<br />
linked with the <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> that was home to<br />
Crabbe in the eighteenth century and Britten in<br />
the twentieth.<br />
Tim Albery directs an outdoor realisation of Peter<br />
Grimes that places the audience directly in its setting<br />
– on the beach, watching as dusk fades over the sea<br />
taking the audience into the world of Peter Grimes<br />
and the local community that has branded him a<br />
muderer and hunted him down.<br />
The same musical team as the concerts will perform<br />
with the singers amplified and the orchestra recorded<br />
from the earlier <strong>Festival</strong> concerts.<br />
‘In ceaseless motion comes and goes the tide<br />
Flowing it fills the channel broad and wide<br />
Then back to sea with strong majestic sweep<br />
It rolls in ebb yet terrible and deep’<br />
Peter Grimes
‘There are few points within the confines of this planet<br />
at which you can stand and know that you’re seeing,<br />
hearing and breathing precisely what a composer was<br />
trying to capture in a particular piece of music.’<br />
Classic FM magazine on Peter Grimes and <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> beach<br />
Please note this performance is outdoors, uncovered<br />
and most of the audience will be seated on the<br />
beach. There will be limited bench seating and<br />
spaces for wheelchair users. In the event of severe<br />
weather, the performance may have to be postponed<br />
to the following evening. Only legless folding camping<br />
chairs may be used on the beach. More information<br />
will be sent to bookers in advance of the event.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> beach 8.30pm (ends approx 11.45pm)<br />
Tickets: Bench seating £75 Sitting on the shingle £50,<br />
£40, £20 Under 27s half price<br />
For Grimes in <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> package deal, see page 4<br />
Supported by the Friends of <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong><br />
With additional corporate support from the<br />
TA Hotel Collection<br />
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‘i Took A TickeT for This show becAuse iT is<br />
locAl And i ThoughT i hAd To. i’d hAve sold<br />
iT for sixpence eArlier on. i wouldn’T pArT<br />
wiTh iT now for Ten pounds.’ Audience<br />
member at the 1st <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> festival performance<br />
of britten’s Albert herring, quoted by e.m. forster.<br />
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Tuesday 18 June 3pm<br />
Chamber <strong>Music</strong> Century<br />
Birmingham Contemporary <strong>Music</strong> Group<br />
Lucy Schauffer mezzo soprano<br />
Debussy Syrinx<br />
Stravinsky 3 pieces for clarinet; Tango, Waltz & Ragtime<br />
Oliver Knussen Elegaic Arabesques<br />
Britten Reflection; The Wasp; Tema Sacher<br />
Colin Matthews Interlude 2 Henze Adagio Adagio<br />
John Woolrich In the Mirrors of Asleep<br />
Charlotte Bray new work for mezzo soprano and<br />
ensemble (world premiere)<br />
And Colin Matthews’ arrangements of music by<br />
Berg and Debussy<br />
Guest Artistic Associate Colin Matthews crafts an<br />
ingenious programme that mines the riches of the<br />
last hundred years of chamber music repertoire,<br />
tracing an elegant arch from the turbulent opening<br />
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in 1948, The 1sT <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> fesTivAl box<br />
office TAkings were £2,800, while for<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> music’s yeAr-round progrAmme<br />
in 2012 They were £909,070.<br />
years of the twentieth century to the present day and<br />
back again. Framed by tiny masterpieces for a solo<br />
instrument, this is a rich tapestry, weaving into its<br />
fabric the distilled fervour of Berg and Webern,<br />
Knussen and Woolrich’s lyricism, and Stravinsky’s<br />
brittle, brilliant pastiches. Matthews’ own music and<br />
his arrangements of others takes its place here, as<br />
does Britten – some of his earliest chamber music to<br />
his last instrumental work. Nods also to <strong>Aldeburgh</strong><br />
Artistic directors of the past and music from a<br />
composer who was a regular visitor and significant<br />
presence – Hans Werner Henze.<br />
A seamless sequence that seems to shape a new<br />
composition from many pre-constructed fragments –<br />
the familiar, the re-imagined and the unusual sharing<br />
an intimate space without ever jarring or jostling for<br />
attention – this is a modernist montage that startles,<br />
reveals and illuminates.<br />
Charlotte Bray’s new work is a BCMG Sound<br />
Investment commission.<br />
Britten Studio, Snape 3pm (ends approx 4.25pm)<br />
No interval Tickets £16, £13 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (2pm)<br />
Supported by Selman & Suzanne Selvi
Tuesday 18 June 7pm<br />
Christian Zacharias<br />
Christian Zacharias piano<br />
Scarlatti Sonata in B minor K27 Brahms Rhapsody in<br />
B minor op.79 No.1 Mozart Adagio in B minor KV 540<br />
Haydn Sonata in B minor Hob.XVI: 32<br />
Schubert Moments <strong>Music</strong>aux; Impromptu No.3 in<br />
B-flat major<br />
Intuitive, imaginative and free-thinking, Christian<br />
Zacharias is the most versatile of musicians. But it<br />
is perhaps in this repertoire where he is most at<br />
home, bringing a refined poetic instinct, poise and<br />
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‘The music i wroTe reAlly comes off well,<br />
– &, for whAT is wAnTed, creATes QuiTe<br />
AloT of sensATion!’ (15 JAnuAry 1936)<br />
britten’s career had taken off in 1935, having been<br />
appointed to the gpo documentary film unit<br />
alongside other artists like w.h. Auden, with whom<br />
he created the famous sequence to the remarkable<br />
short film night mail, which he describes here.<br />
perceptive insights to the great riches of the classical<br />
and romantic piano repertoire. In his intriguingly<br />
constructed programme, all roads seem to lead to<br />
Schubert. Light and carefree though their titles are,<br />
Schubert’s poetic miniatures carry a profound depth<br />
of feeling that goes far beyond mere improvisatory<br />
caprice. They are prefaced with the glittering clarity<br />
of Scarlatti, Brahms’ restless turbulence and the<br />
foreboding and fantasy of Mozart and Haydn.<br />
Snape 7pm (ends approx 8.50pm)<br />
Tickets £20, £18, £15, £12, £10 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (6pm)<br />
Supported by Michael Guest, in memory of Sybil Guest<br />
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Tuesday 18 June 9.30pm<br />
The Church Parables:<br />
Curlew River<br />
Mahogany Opera • Aurora Orchestra<br />
Frederic Wake-Walker director<br />
Roger Vignoles music director<br />
Kitty Callister designer (after original designs by<br />
Mara Amats) Ben Payne lighting designer<br />
Cast includes: James Gilchrist, Rodney Earl Clarke,<br />
Samuel Evans, Lukas Jacobski<br />
See Sunday 16 June for details.<br />
Orford Church 9.30pm (ends approx 10.45pm)<br />
Tickets £27, £21, £17, £12 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £6 (8.30pm) via Snape<br />
Tickets are limited to two per household<br />
All three operas £69, £54, £45, £33<br />
Under 27s half price<br />
Pre-performance talk Director Frederic Wake-Walker<br />
introduces the production.<br />
Orford Church 8pm. Admission free, but please book<br />
Supported by Mark & Angela Bridges
Wednesday 19 June 9.30am<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Walk II<br />
Dennington to Framlingham<br />
Starting at the superb church of St Mary’s, Dennington,<br />
famous for the wonderful medieval craftsmanship in<br />
its chapels, we continue across wide acres of farmland<br />
offering lovely views across this part of mid-Suffolk.<br />
Then we follow the upper reaches of the River Ore to the<br />
12th century Framlingham Castle, seat of the Bigods.<br />
Suitable clothing and footwear are recommended.<br />
This is not a circular walk. Distance: approx 6 miles.<br />
Easy to medium diffi culty, with three stiles. We regret<br />
dogs cannot be brought.<br />
Coaches 9.30am, 9.45am, 10am (departing from<br />
Moot Hall, <strong>Aldeburgh</strong>, returning approx 4.30pm)<br />
Tickets £22, including lunch and return coach trip<br />
With support from<br />
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‘wAlking Around The reeds AT<br />
snApe is one of The mosT inspiring<br />
Things you cAn do As A composer.’<br />
benjamin oliver, britten–pears<br />
composers’ course participant, 2012.<br />
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Wednesday 19 June 7pm<br />
The Church Parables:<br />
The Burning Fiery Furnace<br />
and The Prodigal Son<br />
Mahogany Opera • Aurora Orchestra<br />
Frederic Wake-Walker director<br />
Roger Vignoles music director<br />
Kitty Callister designer (after original designs by<br />
Mara Amats) Ben Payne lighting designer<br />
Cast includes: James Gilchrist, Rodney Earl Clarke, John<br />
McMunn, Samuel Evans, Douglas Nairne, Lukas Jacobski<br />
See Monday 17 June for details.<br />
Orford Church 7pm (The Burning Fiery Furnace<br />
7–8.15pm; The Prodigal Son 9.30–10.45pm)<br />
Tickets £48, £38, £31, £22 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £6 (6pm) Tickets are limited to two per household<br />
All three operas £69, £54, £45, £33 U27s half price<br />
Supported by Mark & Angela Bridges<br />
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‘i Am losT wiThouT some children (of<br />
eiTher sex) neAr me.’ (15 April 1936)<br />
Wednesday 19 June 8.30pm<br />
Grimes on the Beach<br />
Tim Albery director<br />
Leslie Travers set and costume designer<br />
Lucy Carter lighting designer<br />
Cast includes: Alan Oke, Giselle Allen, David Kempster<br />
Steuart Bedford conductor<br />
The Chorus of Opera North and the Chorus of the<br />
Guildhall School of <strong>Music</strong> and Drama<br />
Benjamin Britten music Montagu Slater words<br />
Please note this performance is outdoors, uncovered<br />
and most of the audience will be seated on the<br />
beach. More information will be sent to bookers.<br />
See Monday 17 June for details.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> beach 8.30pm (ends approx 11.45pm)<br />
Tickets: Bench seating £75 Sitting on the shingle<br />
£50, £40, £20 Under 27s half price<br />
For Grimes in <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> package deals, see page 4<br />
Supported by Peter Moores Foundation with<br />
Alan Swerdlow & Jeremy Greenwood<br />
Also supported by individuals from the<br />
Britten Centenary Circle
Thursday 20 June 11am<br />
Britten on Film II<br />
Britten as Performer<br />
Introduced by Humphrey Burton<br />
If being a great composer wasn’t enough, Britten was<br />
an extraordinary performer. He made dozens of sound<br />
recordings but there is very little film footage of him<br />
performing and conducting, in part because he didn’t<br />
enjoy the dry acoustic of television studios. The<br />
advent of BBC 2 in 1964, however, led to a number<br />
of important TV relays. This survey of rare footage,<br />
introduced by archivist Stephen Wright and director<br />
Humphrey Burton, reveals Britten as an inspiring<br />
conductor of his own music and that of Purcell. The<br />
films show Britten working at the Royal Albert Hall,<br />
the Fairfield Hall and the newly opened Snape<br />
Maltings Concert Hall, with performers including the<br />
London Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber<br />
Orchestra, Peter Pears and Mstislav Rostropovich.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Cinema 11am (end time approx 1.30pm)<br />
Tickets £8 Under 27s half price<br />
Thursday 20 June 3pm<br />
Dowland Songs and Dances<br />
Iestyn Davies countertenor<br />
Phantasm viol consort Elizabeth Kenny lute<br />
Dowland Songs including: Shall I strive with wordes<br />
to move; Flow My Teares; Can she excuse my wrongs;<br />
Come againe sweet love doth now envite; In darknesse<br />
let mee dwell. Plus Galliards, Pavans, Almands and<br />
other instrumental music.<br />
Born 450 years ago this year, the great English<br />
Renaissance composer John Dowland continues to<br />
inspire performers and composers with the expressive<br />
intensity of his songs, providing the foundations for<br />
some of Britten’s most haunting instrumental works.<br />
Yet Dowland’s own music is not all darkly coloured:<br />
alongside some of his most famous and melancholy<br />
songs, a stellar collective of outstanding Dowland<br />
interpreters perform less well-known pieces which<br />
find him adapting the dance forms of the day in<br />
exquisitely decorated music that is by turns sprightly<br />
and stately.<br />
Blythburgh Church 3pm (ends approx 4.50pm)<br />
Tickets £19, £16, £10 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £7 (2pm)<br />
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Thursday 20 June 8pm<br />
Britten Dances<br />
Inspired by Britten<br />
The Royal Ballet<br />
Royal Ballet Flanders<br />
Britten Sinfonia<br />
Barry Wordsworth, Ben Pope conductors<br />
Alasdair Beatson piano Tom McKinney guitar<br />
A Britten centenary celebration through dance,<br />
featuring new choreography inspired by Britten from<br />
Kim Brandstrup (music: Britten Variations on a theme<br />
of Frank Bridge), who creates a new work for The<br />
Royal Ballet, and Ashley Page (music: Britten Young<br />
Apollo & Purcell arr. Britten Chacony) and Cameron<br />
McMillan (music: Larry Goves new work after<br />
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‘An erA hAs pAssed’ (19 februAry 1936)<br />
in 1934 britten’s father had died and in 1936 his mother<br />
moved out of lowestoft. britten mourns the end of his<br />
childhood and literally draws a line under it in his diary.<br />
Britten’s Nocturnal), who make dances for Royal<br />
Ballet Flanders.<br />
All three commissions are part of <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong>’s<br />
Inspired by Britten series and are co-commissioned<br />
with DanceEast, in collaboration with two of the<br />
world’s leading dance companies.<br />
Snape 8pm (ends approx 10pm)<br />
Tickets £38, £30, £24, £17 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (6pm)<br />
Pre-performance talk Kim Brandstrup and Cameron<br />
McMillan discuss their new works<br />
Peter Pears Recital Room 6.30pm. Admission free,<br />
but please book.<br />
Supported by the Richard Cave Trust, established in<br />
1987 by a major donation from Vickers plc
Friday 21 June 11am<br />
Tokyo Quartet<br />
Beethoven Quartet Op.95 in F minor ‘Serioso’<br />
Bartók Quartet No.6 in D major<br />
Debussy Quartet in G minor<br />
The chance to hear one of the world’s finest chamber<br />
ensembles is special enough. That it comes only weeks<br />
before it disbands after a remarkable four decade<br />
career makes this an occasion to savour. The Tokyo<br />
Quartet bring their sumptuous, burnished sound,<br />
precision of ensemble and deep musical understanding<br />
to a compelling programme; Beethoven’s fizzing,<br />
compressed energy, Bartok’s poignant farewell to<br />
the form and Debussy’s only quartet, agile, poetic,<br />
distilling his visionary new musical world into this<br />
most traditional of forms. Groundbreaking, ingenious<br />
masterpieces all three, and a fitting triptych for a<br />
revered quartet’s farewell.<br />
‘[The sound]… is of a mellow, matured cask of fine liquor<br />
distilled through time and space: fiery, with its individual<br />
particles strong and flavoursome, the blend not oversmooth,<br />
but kicking on the palette’ The Times<br />
Blythburgh Church 11am (ends approx 12.40pm)<br />
Tickets £22, 16, £10 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £7 (10am)<br />
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briTTen wAs ArresTed once in his life<br />
– for dAngerous driving, in mAy 1937<br />
AfTer crAshing his cAr driving wiTh<br />
his sisTer beTh in The coTswolds.<br />
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Friday 21 June 3pm<br />
Britten–Pears Young Artists II<br />
Horns of the Britten–Pears Orchestra<br />
Rosalind Ventris viola Lara Dodds-Eden piano<br />
Schumann arr. Britten Adagio and Allegro for Horn<br />
Bridge arr. Britten There is a Willow Grows Aslant<br />
a Brook<br />
Hindemith Sonata for Four Horns; Trauermusik<br />
Schumann Märchenbilder<br />
Tippett Sonata for Four Horns<br />
A concert that juxtaposes the sounds of a horn<br />
quartet with viola – Hindemith and Britten’s own<br />
instrument – is an alluring prospect, and the<br />
instruments’ very essence seems to be represented<br />
here. The viola’s burnished eloquence weeps in<br />
memorials by Hindemith and Bridge and spins<br />
fantastical tales in Schumann’s fairy stories; the<br />
horn’s heritage celebrated in smooth cantilenas and<br />
quicksilver caprice. Ghosts lurk here too – the horn<br />
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virtuoso Dennis Brain and his quartet, and Britten,<br />
whose deft arrangements of other people’s music<br />
so often blends poetry and polish, working with the<br />
grain to reveal new beauty beneath the veneer.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Parish Church 3pm (ends approx 4.30pm)<br />
Tickets £13, £10, £6 Under 27s half price<br />
Supported by Alan & Judi Britten<br />
The Britten–Pears Young<br />
Artist Programme is<br />
generously supported by<br />
Hesse Students Concert Students have been<br />
assisting with running <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> concerts<br />
in return for free tickets for over half a century.<br />
This is the second of their popular end-of-week<br />
concerts this year. Pumphouse, <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> 5pm<br />
(ends approx 6pm)<br />
AT The 2nd <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> fesTivAl in 1949 ArThur rAnsome, AuThor of<br />
swAllows And AmAZons, gAve A TAlk enTiTled ‘sAiling in eAsT AngliA’.
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Friday 21 June 5.30pm<br />
SNAP: the discussion<br />
A number of the contributing artists will join the<br />
panel, discussing the ways in which their works<br />
engage with Britten and his legacy.<br />
Britten Studio, Snape 5.30pm (ends approx 6.50pm)<br />
Tickets £5 Students free<br />
Friday 21 June 7pm<br />
Britten Dance Juniors<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Young <strong>Music</strong>ians and DanceEast Academy<br />
Inspired by Britten Dances, the landscape and<br />
Britten’s music, <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Young <strong>Music</strong>ians and<br />
DanceEast Academy take the idea of theme and<br />
variations to create new, site-specific performances<br />
around Snape Maltings. Exploring the relationship<br />
between choreographers, composers, performers and<br />
unusual spaces, these mini-collaborations provide<br />
an informal platform for our young regional talent.<br />
Various venues at Snape 7pm (ends approx 7.45pm)<br />
Admission free, no ticket required<br />
Friday 21 June 8pm<br />
Britten Dances<br />
The Royal Ballet<br />
Royal Ballet Flanders<br />
Britten Sinfonia<br />
Barry Wordsworth, Ben Pope conductors<br />
Alasdair Beatson piano<br />
Tom McKinney guitar<br />
See Thursday 20 June for details.<br />
Snape 8pm (ends approx 10pm)<br />
Tickets £38, £30, £24, £17 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (6.30pm)<br />
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The <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> fesTivAl for free As ‘hesse<br />
sTudenTs’, A scheme seT up in 1959 by<br />
princess mArgAreT of hesse And The rhine,<br />
enAbling young people To receive free<br />
TickeTs And AccommodATion in reTurn for<br />
AdminisTrATive help.
Friday 21 June 8.30pm<br />
Grimes on the Beach<br />
Tim Albery director<br />
Leslie Travers set and costume designer<br />
Lucy Carter lighting designer<br />
Cast includes: Alan Oke, Giselle Allen, David Kempster<br />
Steuart Bedford conductor<br />
The Chorus of Opera North and the<br />
Chorus of the Guildhall School of <strong>Music</strong> and Drama<br />
Benjamin Britten music Montagu Slater words<br />
Please note this performance is outdoors, uncovered<br />
and most of the audience will be seated on the<br />
beach. More information will be sent to bookers.<br />
See Monday 17 June for details.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> beach 8.30pm (ends approx 11.45)<br />
Tickets: Bench seating £75 Sitting on the shingle £50,<br />
£40, £20 Under 27s half price<br />
For Grimes in <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> package deals, see page 4<br />
Generously supported by the Robey Family and the<br />
Haskel Family Charities<br />
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<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> residencies provide<br />
opporTuniTies for over 50 composers,<br />
musiciAns And oTher ArTisTs per yeAr<br />
To creATe new work And re-chArge<br />
Their creATive bATTeries.<br />
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Saturday 22 June 11am<br />
Piano Century: The Year 1913<br />
Tamara Stefanovich piano<br />
Nenad Lecic piano<br />
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano<br />
Debussy Jeux<br />
Zimmermann Monologue<br />
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring<br />
Pierre Boulez Structures (Book 2)<br />
Two of the pivotal moments in musical history, from<br />
exactly a hundred years ago, thrill in radical and<br />
revealing couplings. A mysterious alchemy occurs<br />
when orchestral scores are heard played on two<br />
pianos. Rhythms become tauter, highly sprung,<br />
harmonies crystallise, tiny details of the music’s<br />
inner workings emerge with new clarity and focus.<br />
‘i Am in A dAmned muddle Trying To compromise beTween pAcifism & communism’ (6 mAy 1937)<br />
britten was struggling to reconcile the diverse views of his circle. he went on to take a strong pacifist stance,<br />
registering as a conscientious objector in 1943, and later, during the cold war while others were burning bridges<br />
with russia, britten built friendships, inviting shostakovich, richter and rostropovich to <strong>Aldeburgh</strong>.
Debussy and Stravinsky are heard afresh in piano<br />
arrangements by the composers. Zimmermann’s work<br />
(itself an arrangement of an orchestral score) teases<br />
us with fragments from Beethoven and Bach to<br />
Boogie-Woogie and quotes directly from Jeux, with<br />
which it shares a fl uidity, quicksilver changes of<br />
direction and almost improvisatory air. The controlled<br />
venom, intricate organisation and relentless impetus<br />
of Stravinsky’s infamous Rite fi nd a parallel in<br />
Boulez’s innovative Structures – precisely and<br />
minutely organised but with a momentum, percussive<br />
power and glittering brilliance that makes an<br />
explosive, visceral impact.<br />
Britten Studio, Snape 11am (ends approx 1.10pm)<br />
Tickets £20, £16 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (10am)<br />
There will be a 30-minute interval.<br />
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composers whose works hAve been premiered<br />
AT The <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> fesTivAl in The pAsT 30 yeArs<br />
include briTTen, TurnAge, goehr, hollowAy,<br />
knussen, weir, rorem, coplAnd, TAkemiTsu,<br />
nAncArrow, sciArrino, AdÈs, kAgel, birTwisTle,<br />
cArTer And kurTÁg.<br />
Saturday 22 June 2.30pm<br />
Ian Bostridge<br />
Masterclass Course Recital<br />
Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano<br />
Singers, instrumentalists and composers from the<br />
Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme<br />
The fruits of a week’s intensive masterclasses,<br />
Britten’s songs – so central to his musical legacy –<br />
are performed alongside the new English songs they<br />
have inspired, including a guest appearance by<br />
course tutors Bostridge and Drake themselves.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Parish Church 2.30pm (ends approx 4.30pm)<br />
Tickets £10 Under 27s half price<br />
This project has received funding from the European<br />
Network of Opera Academies with support from the<br />
European Commission<br />
The Britten–Pears Young<br />
Artist Programme is<br />
generously supported by<br />
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Saturday 22 June 6pm<br />
Epigrams: Tribute to Elliott Carter<br />
Presented by Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Oliver Knussen<br />
Birmingham Contemporary <strong>Music</strong> Group<br />
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano<br />
Elliott Carter Epigrams (world premiere); Trije<br />
Glasbeniki; String Trio; Rigmarole (UK premieres)<br />
The music of Elliott Carter, who died in November 2012,<br />
has been, and will remain a constant presence at<br />
Aimard’s <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>s. With Oliver Knussen,<br />
another musician linked so closely with this modern<br />
master, he discusses the man and his music and<br />
presents glittering chamber music miniatures from<br />
the last two years of his life, including the world<br />
premiere of his last ever work, a piano trio intended<br />
for <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> but left incomplete at his death.<br />
‘By turns lyrical, dramatic, complex, amusing and poetic,<br />
this grand master of polyphony understood the challenges<br />
of his time and entertained us with great intelligence.’<br />
Pierre-Laurent Aimard<br />
Britten Studio, Snape 6pm (ends approx 6.50pm)<br />
Tickets £8 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (5pm)<br />
Saturday 22 June 7.30pm<br />
Dialogues<br />
Birmingham Contemporary <strong>Music</strong> Group<br />
Oliver Knussen conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano<br />
Britten The Sword in the Stone<br />
Hans Werner Henze The Emperor’s Nightingale<br />
Elliott Carter Dialogues II (UK premiere)<br />
Magnus Lindberg new work (world premiere*)<br />
Lutoslawski Venetian Games<br />
Legends, fairy stories and games accompany major<br />
premieres in Knussen’s alluring programme. Britten’s<br />
knights’ tales joust with Henze’s delightful orientinfused<br />
‘ballet-pantomime’. Lutoslawski loosens the<br />
foundations of modernist musical architecture to<br />
incorporate individual choice and freedom. Fantasy,<br />
wit and craftsmanship fuse Carter’s 70th birthday<br />
present for Daniel Barenboim and a major new work<br />
from Magnus Lindberg.<br />
*<strong>2013</strong> RPS/BPF co-commission (see page 10)<br />
Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 9.30pm)<br />
Tickets £20, £18, £15, £12, £10 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (6.30pm)<br />
Supported by George & Angie Loudon
Sunday 23 June 12.45pm<br />
Albert Herring Feast<br />
Taking inspiration from Britten’s comic opera Albert<br />
Herring, we are holding six community feasts around<br />
Suffolk in the course of our Britten Centenary year.<br />
Come and join us at the Snape feast on the last day<br />
of the <strong>Festival</strong> for a fun-fi lled treat, suitable for all<br />
ages. Bring some food and join in the ‘feastivities’,<br />
taking place outside Snape Maltings Concert Hall.<br />
Oyster Bar Lawn, Snape 12.45pm<br />
Free admission, no ticket required<br />
With the generous support of the<br />
Chapman Charitable Trust<br />
Working in partnership with the Britten–Pears<br />
Foundation with public funding from the<br />
National Lottery through Arts Council England<br />
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Sunday 23 June 2.30pm<br />
The Young Person’s Guide:<br />
Family concert<br />
The Hallé Orchestra<br />
Sir Mark Elder conductor and narrator<br />
Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra<br />
Britten wrote his Variations and Fugue on a Theme<br />
of Purcell as a way to introduce children to the<br />
instruments of the orchestra and the piece has<br />
become one of the most popular orchestral works of<br />
the 20th century, known primarily by its subtitle,<br />
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. If you<br />
have ever thought about bringing children to a<br />
concert, this is your chance to bring them to perhaps<br />
the most exciting introductory piece ever written,<br />
performed by one of the UK’s best-loved orchestras<br />
and conductors in a very short, family-friendly event.<br />
Snape 2.30pm (ends approx 3pm)<br />
Tickets £10 Under 16s £5 Coach £4 (1.30pm)<br />
eAch yeAr <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> music works wiTh 9% of All Juvenile offenders in cusTody in englAnd And wAles.<br />
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Sunday 23 June 4pm<br />
The Hallé Orchestra<br />
Emma Bell soprano<br />
Sir Mark Elder conductor<br />
Wolfgang Rihm new work (world premiere*)<br />
Britten The Prince of the Pagodas – Pas de Six; Our<br />
Hunting Fathers; Variations and Fugue on a Theme of<br />
Purcell (The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra)<br />
Is there a more joyous, thrilling moment in twentieth<br />
century music than the closing pages of Britten’s<br />
Purcell-inspired concerto for orchestra? The triumphal<br />
return of Purcell’s ancient but familiar theme at the<br />
conclusion to this riotously inventive, colourful tour<br />
de force simply takes the breath away.<br />
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Including the fifth and final <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> world premiere<br />
in the Royal Philharmonic Society / Britten–Pears<br />
Foundation commissions, this concert traces<br />
Britten’s music from the rarely heard exoticism of<br />
an orient-inspired ballet via his first major orchestral<br />
song cycle as a fitting celebration to end the<br />
centenary <strong>Festival</strong>. Sir Mark Elder brings his Hallé<br />
Orchestra to Snape Maltings less than twelve months<br />
after his unforgettable concerts with the <strong>Aldeburgh</strong><br />
World Orchestra.<br />
* <strong>2013</strong> RPS/BPF co-commission (see page 10)<br />
Snape 4pm (ends approx 6pm)<br />
Tickets £34, £29, £25, £20, £15 Under 27s half price<br />
Coach £4 (2.30pm)<br />
With the generous support of the<br />
Chapman Charitable Trust<br />
Also supported by the Britten Centenary Circle<br />
‘i feel i Am infiniTely wise in choosing This plAce’ (29 June 1937)<br />
britten on his plan to move back to suffolk from london and convert the old<br />
mill at snape, which he completed the following year.
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Saturday 8 – Sunday 30 June (closed 24 & 25 June)<br />
SNAP <strong>2013</strong><br />
Art inspired by Britten<br />
Contributing artists from the SNAP 2011 and 2012<br />
exhibitions return to show a diverse body of new work<br />
inspired by Britten and sited all around the grounds<br />
at Snape, often in unconventional and irregular<br />
locations, and to be viewed as a trail. The group<br />
contains both emerging and established, international<br />
artists, all of whom have a strong connection to<br />
the region.<br />
Artists include: Darren Almond, Don Brown, Glenn<br />
Brown, May Cornet, Cerith Wynn Evans, Mark Fuller,<br />
Ryan Gander, Maggi Hambling, Scott King, Emily<br />
Richardson, Johnnie Shand Kydd, Abigail Lane,<br />
Simon Liddiment, Sarah Lucas, Julian Simmons,<br />
Cally Spooner, Juergen Teller, Gavin Turk,<br />
and artists from Wysing Arts in Cambridge and<br />
Norwich Outpost.<br />
‘SNAP’s size and setting foster dialogues: between<br />
modern and contemporary, between the art and the<br />
landscape’ Financial Times<br />
Exhibition open 12 noon – 5pm or the start of the<br />
evening performance<br />
See www.snapaldeburgh.co.uk for more details.<br />
Some of the SNAP artists will discuss their work in<br />
a talk on SNAP discussion on Friday 21 June at<br />
5.30pm. See page 43.
Britten Trail<br />
From Easter <strong>2013</strong> onwards, visitors to <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> will<br />
be able to explore the town that so inspired Britten<br />
through a self-guided walking tour. Local community<br />
groups have come together with the Britten–Pears<br />
Foundation to interpret the places most closely<br />
associated with the composer. Full details – including<br />
leaflets, a booklet and an audio tour – will be<br />
unveiled in the spring at www.brittenpears.org.<br />
The Red House re-opens<br />
At The Red House, where Britten lived and worked<br />
for much of his life, the Britten–Pears Foundation<br />
is preparing to open up the site as never before.<br />
A purpose-built new home for Britten’s outstanding<br />
archive, designed by award-winning architects<br />
Stanton Williams, opens at the start of the <strong>2013</strong><br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>. The studio where Britten wrote<br />
masterpieces such as War Requiem will be recreated,<br />
and highlights from BPF’s collections will be on show<br />
in an inspiring new exhibition about the man and his<br />
music. See www.brittenpears.org for details.<br />
Both projects have been generously supported by the<br />
Heritage Lottery Fund.<br />
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musiciAns And ArTisTs come To sTAy AT<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> music ThroughouT The yeAr –<br />
To perform, experimenT, live And work<br />
TogeTher. in 2012 <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> music<br />
AccommodATed over 1,400 ArTisTs, or An<br />
AverAge of 27 per week.<br />
Philip Vile<br />
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How to find us<br />
By Car Signposted from the<br />
A12, take the A1094 off the<br />
A12, turn right at Snape Church<br />
for Snape Maltings. There is no<br />
charge for parking at Snape.<br />
By Train National Express East<br />
Anglia operate a service from<br />
London–Saxmundham via Ipswich.<br />
Tel: 0845 600 7245.<br />
By Taxi We advise you pre-book a<br />
taxi from Saxmundham; contact<br />
A2B cars: 01728 633003 or<br />
01728 832202.<br />
New Penny Taxis: 01728 452142<br />
Oscar/Amber Taxis: 01728 830614<br />
Gull Taxis: 01728 602344<br />
By Bus There are bus services from<br />
both <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> and Woodbridge to<br />
Snape with a bus stop outside the<br />
Maltings. Tel: 0871 200 2233.<br />
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Framlingham<br />
Woodbridge<br />
A12<br />
A14<br />
Snape Thorpeness<br />
A1094<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong><br />
B1069 Snape Maltings<br />
A1152<br />
Concert Hall<br />
B1078<br />
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poinT in The uk, wiTh coordinATes of 52°28.87’n 1°45.77’e.<br />
A12<br />
Lowestoft<br />
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A1095<br />
Southwold<br />
Blythburgh<br />
General information<br />
Friends and Advance Booking List<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong> runs a year-round<br />
programme of events. Priority<br />
booking is available to Friends and<br />
those on the Advance Booking<br />
List. Additionally Friends enjoy an<br />
exclusive year-round social and<br />
cultural programme. For further<br />
information, please phone<br />
01728 687100 or email<br />
joinus@aldeburgh.co.uk<br />
Support our work<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong> relies on<br />
the generosity of numerous<br />
individuals, businesses, trusts<br />
and foundations to carry out its<br />
ambitious artistic programme.<br />
If you would like to be involved<br />
either individually as an Annual<br />
Donor or through your business or<br />
a trust, or would like information<br />
on leaving a legacy, please contact<br />
Kate Lloyd on 01728 687100 or<br />
email klloyd@aldeburgh.co.uk<br />
Visitor Centre<br />
Our new visitor and information<br />
centre adjacent to the Concert Hall
Foyer is now open, selling recordings<br />
of music and artists, new releases<br />
and bestsellers.<br />
Tel: 01728 687100<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Alumni Club<br />
Our alumni have been getting<br />
back in touch with us from all over<br />
the world. See what friends and<br />
colleagues are up to and visit us<br />
on www.aldeburgh.co.uk. Please<br />
contact alumni@aldeburgh.co.uk if<br />
you have any submissions or would<br />
like further information.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> American Scholarships<br />
give the top young musicians<br />
from the USA an opportunity to<br />
add an international dimension to<br />
their professional development by<br />
attending courses at the Britten–<br />
Pears Young Artist Programme.<br />
Booking Details<br />
Priority booking for Annual Donors<br />
until Tuesday 22 January, Friends<br />
from Wednesday 23 January, and<br />
Advance Booking List (including<br />
e-ABL) from Wednesday 6 February<br />
You can now use priority online<br />
booking. Alternatively, send back<br />
your completed form as soon as<br />
possible after receiving it. Forms<br />
are processed in order of receipt,<br />
according to membership level.<br />
Please return forms to:<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong><br />
Snape Maltings Concert Hall<br />
Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP or<br />
email: boxoffice@aldeburgh.co.uk<br />
General Booking opens on<br />
Wednesday 13 February<br />
Our improved online booking now<br />
offers seat selection – visit<br />
www.aldeburgh.co.uk<br />
Phone and In Person booking opens<br />
on Wednesday 13 February<br />
Tel: 01728 687110<br />
Please note we cannot take any<br />
telephone or in person bookings<br />
until this date.<br />
Box Office opening hours:<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> High Street<br />
Mon–Sat 10am–4pm<br />
Snape Maltings Concert Hall<br />
Mon–Sun 10am–4pm<br />
August–September 9.30am–4.30pm<br />
or the start of the evening concert<br />
Discounts<br />
Group Discounts<br />
10% discount available for groups<br />
of 12 or more.<br />
Wheelchair Users<br />
A concession of 50% is available<br />
to companions of wheelchair users.<br />
All discounts are made subject to<br />
availability, and discounts cannot<br />
be combined.<br />
Returned Tickets<br />
We are happy to re-sell returned<br />
tickets for sold-out concerts.<br />
A 10% handling charge will be<br />
deducted from your refund.<br />
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Access<br />
Please inform the Box Offi ce if you<br />
have access requirements so that<br />
they may advise you on the most<br />
appropriate seats.<br />
Parking for people with disabilities<br />
at Snape<br />
Spaces are provided for blue/<br />
orange badge holders and must<br />
be booked in advance. Should you<br />
require one please inform the Box<br />
Offi ce when booking. Please arrive<br />
early to secure your parking space.<br />
Snape Maltings Concert Hall<br />
Britten Studio, Hoffmann Building<br />
The Concert Hall and the<br />
Hoffmann Building have space<br />
for wheelchairs, lift access to all<br />
levels, and operate an infra-red<br />
hearing system which can be used<br />
with or without a hearing aid.<br />
Please call the Box Offi ce for<br />
access details about Grimes on<br />
the Beach and The Borough.<br />
Orford Church<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Cinema<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Parish Church<br />
Blythburgh Church<br />
Pumphouse, <strong>Aldeburgh</strong><br />
Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape<br />
Eating at Snape<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong>’s new catering<br />
team will be providing an excellent<br />
choice of dining options for the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
• A delicious range of hot food and<br />
puddings in the informal and<br />
refurbished Oyster Bar<br />
• A cold food counter stocked with<br />
a variety of salads, snacks,<br />
substantial platters and puddings<br />
• A fully stocked bar<br />
• Traditional waiter-service in the top<br />
fl oor Restaurant, open before and<br />
after performances in the Concert<br />
Hall. Please pre-book your table<br />
through the Box Offi ce on<br />
01728 687110.<br />
The Oyster Bar is open two hours<br />
before concerts, and again<br />
afterwards.
For performances in the Britten<br />
Studio, the Hoffmann Building is<br />
equipped with a fully stocked bar,<br />
and will serve some snacks and<br />
coffee. The bar will open one hour<br />
before the performance.<br />
For a more substantial meal before<br />
Britten Studio events we<br />
recommend trying one of Snape’s<br />
three excellent pubs (see page 62).<br />
Options and ideas for dining before<br />
Grimes on the Beach will be sent<br />
to bookers in advance of the event.<br />
For all catering bookings and<br />
enquiries please contact the<br />
Box Office on 01728 687110.<br />
We regret that picnics are not<br />
allowed anywhere on the site.<br />
To receive this brochure<br />
in another format, please<br />
call 01728 687100.<br />
Snape Maltings Concert Hall seating plan<br />
Please note the seating plan<br />
differs for dance events, some<br />
hire events, and Christmas<br />
Spectacular. Please ask the<br />
Box Office for details.<br />
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Where to stay<br />
B&B and Self-catering<br />
At Snape Maltings Stunning two<br />
bedroom apartments with a private<br />
terrace, looking onto the courtyard,<br />
available for rental throughout the<br />
year. Part of the new courtyard<br />
residential development.<br />
Private carparking.<br />
Tel: 01728 688303<br />
www.snapemaltings.co.uk<br />
An amble to Snape Maltings<br />
Flemings Lodge, recommended<br />
in Which? Good B&B Guide.<br />
Tel: 01728 688502<br />
edwards815@btinternet.com<br />
A short walk to The Maltings<br />
Where Benjamin Britten lived and<br />
wrote Peter Grimes. The Old Mill,<br />
Snape. Tel: 01728 687906<br />
www.oldmillsnape.co.uk<br />
info@oldmillsnape.co.uk<br />
Albion House, Snape.<br />
Welcoming B&B plus self-catering<br />
studio, overlooking view that<br />
inspired Benjamin Britten. A short<br />
stroll from Snape Maltings.<br />
Tel/Fax: 01728 687612<br />
www.albionhouse-bandb.co.uk<br />
Snape BandB close to Maltings<br />
Three quiet comfortable bedrooms,<br />
music room. Own produce.<br />
Tel: 01728 689173<br />
quartethelen@aol.com<br />
www.snapebandb.co.uk<br />
Snape Cottages Rural, beautiful<br />
and high quality. Sleep 2–14.<br />
Short breaks & dogs welcome.<br />
Tel: 07802 878172<br />
www.snapecottages.co.uk<br />
Snape, A delightful period cottage.<br />
Luxury B&B. Walking distance<br />
Snape Maltings.<br />
Tel: 01728 689003<br />
M: 07740422065<br />
maggiescorer@yahoo.co.uk<br />
Snape B&B. 2 double rooms (one<br />
ensuite) and 1 single. Off-street<br />
parking. Short walk to Maltings.<br />
Tel: 01728 688862<br />
Snape Period cottage.<br />
Sleeps 2-4. Log fire. Short<br />
breaks. Dogs welcome.<br />
Tel: 01728 688144<br />
www.click4cottages.co.uk<br />
Snape Peaceful location set in 5<br />
acres sleeps 2+, dogs welcome<br />
Tel: 01728 688221<br />
www.waterfieldscottage.co.uk<br />
Snape Rose Tree Cottage<br />
sleeps 2-4 short walk to Maltings<br />
dogs welcome.<br />
Tel: 07957 212118<br />
www.snape-cottage.co.uk<br />
Snape Summerhouse. B&B or<br />
self-catering, 5 mins walk from<br />
Snape Maltings, pets welcome.<br />
Tel: 01728 688750<br />
www.thesummerhouseinsnape.co.uk<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> very comfortable B&B.<br />
In room TV, WiFi, hot drinks etc.<br />
Famous breakfasts. Reserved<br />
parking. 2-min walk to High Street<br />
and beach.<br />
Tel: 01728 453323<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Luxury B&B Quiet but<br />
close to the High Street and sea.<br />
Delicious award-winning breakfasts.<br />
Tel: 01728 453271<br />
www.aldeburgh-bedandbreakfast.co.uk
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong>, Sleeps 6. Well-equipped<br />
house at top of Town Steps.<br />
Pretty garden, sea views.<br />
Tel: 01787 222535<br />
maryseymourtaylor@googlemail.com<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong>, Beech House B&B.<br />
Near beach, town centre.<br />
Tel: 01728 452597<br />
beechhousealdeburgh@gmail.com<br />
www.beechhousealdeburgh.co.uk<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> B&B, in former convent.<br />
Large rooms, seaviews.<br />
Tel: 01728 453859<br />
M: 07792 629859<br />
www.aldeburgh-bed-and-breakfast.com<br />
The Anchor, Walberswick<br />
– Currently 400 yards from the<br />
beach. We provide simple B&B<br />
accommodation in 6 spacious garden<br />
rooms (some newly refurbished)<br />
and two rooms upstairs, all<br />
en-suite. Fresh seasonal food and<br />
beer and wine matching. We have<br />
a private dining room, ideal for<br />
functions and individual menus.<br />
Food and drink events available.<br />
Tel: 01502 722112<br />
www.anchoratwalberswick.com<br />
Ashanwell B&B, Orford. En-suite<br />
accomodation, off-road parking.<br />
Tel: 01394 450882<br />
katharina_willan@ashanwell.com<br />
www.ashanwell.com<br />
Bawdsey Hall Luxury B&B. Situated<br />
in beautiful tranquil gardens of 10<br />
acres, off-road parking. Short drive<br />
from Snape.<br />
Tel: 01394 410220<br />
www.bawdseyhall.co.uk<br />
Benhall Suffolk Cottages, two<br />
luxury self-catering properties.<br />
Minsmere cottage with hot-tub.<br />
Tel: 07919 357515<br />
www.suffolk-cottages.net<br />
Benhall Green, Gr.II 17C thatched<br />
cottage, sleeps 5–7, woodburner/<br />
rayburn etc, gardens, 10 mins<br />
Maltings, 4 mins station.<br />
Tel: 01728 604169<br />
wendymulfordb@keme.co.uk<br />
Close to Snape a Beautiful Period<br />
Cottage in Tunstall. Sleeps 7–8.<br />
Tel: 07733 113754<br />
sarahinton@btinternet.com<br />
Country House B&B. Idyllic Grade II<br />
house in Alde Valley. Beautiful<br />
rooms, delicious breakfasts.<br />
Tel: 01728 663445<br />
smarshall@aldevalleybreaks.co.uk<br />
www.aldevalleybreaks.co.uk<br />
Darsham Old Hall C13th house<br />
within 60 acres and home to<br />
Melford Green Alpacas<br />
provides luxury B&B<br />
accommodation.<br />
Located near Dunwich between<br />
Southwold and <strong>Aldeburgh</strong><br />
Tel: 01728 668446 / 07972 906141<br />
www.darshamoldhall.co.uk<br />
Friston Woodside Barn lovely<br />
well-converted barn sleeps 6, selfcatering,<br />
pets welcome.<br />
Tel: 0845 268 0785<br />
www.woodsidebarncottages.co.uk<br />
The Golden Key Historic village pub<br />
offering 3 beautifully appointed<br />
en-suite rooms. Short walk from<br />
Snape Maltings located in<br />
Snape village.<br />
Tel: 01728 688510<br />
www.snapegoldenkey.co.uk<br />
Iken B&B spacious double room<br />
ensuite, delightful position,<br />
2 miles from Snape<br />
Tel: 01728 688801<br />
www.thedriftiken.co.uk<br />
Luxury Holiday Lodge overlooking<br />
beach. Sleeps 4. Between<br />
Minsmere and Thorpeness.<br />
Tel: 07778799175<br />
isherwood184@btinternet.com<br />
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The Old Rectory, Campsea Ashe.<br />
A beautiful Georgian rectory set<br />
in acres of tranquil gardens. So<br />
much more than a B&B, with<br />
dinner and afternoon teas. Seven<br />
delightful en-suite bedrooms.<br />
Snape only 3 miles.<br />
Tel: 01728 746524<br />
www.theoldrectorysuffolk.com<br />
Sudbourne B&B Ground floor<br />
Double/Twin en-suite, garden<br />
room. Own entrance<br />
Tel: 01394 450468<br />
gbedd@btinternet.com<br />
Thorpeness 1 The Haven central<br />
sunny traditional house. Sleeps 10<br />
but cosy enough for 2. Weekly or<br />
shorter lets. Good dogs welcome<br />
Tel 01284 810408<br />
www.onethehaven.co.uk<br />
Thorpeness Newly refurbished, well<br />
equipped cottage. Short stroll to<br />
village, shop, pub, beach, Meare.<br />
Sleeps 6+.<br />
Tel: 01473 625875<br />
www.thorpenessholidaycottage.com<br />
Thorpeness Lovely 5-bed house<br />
in heart of village. Sleeps 9.<br />
Available April-October.<br />
Tel: 020 7737 7306<br />
www.no2westgate.co.uk<br />
Ufford Luxuriously furnished 1 bed<br />
16thC cottage. Open fire.<br />
Tel: 01473 411700<br />
hopecttg@gmail.com<br />
www.hopecottagesuffolk.co.uk<br />
Accommodation Agencies<br />
Best of Suffolk Over 100 stylish<br />
holiday cottages in the seaside<br />
town of <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> and surrounding<br />
beautiful countryside.<br />
Tel: 01728 638962<br />
www.bestofsuffolk.co.uk<br />
Suffolk Cottage Holidays <strong>Aldeburgh</strong>,<br />
Snape and throughout Suffolk.<br />
Self-cater in style.<br />
Tel: 01394 389189<br />
Tel: 01728 454724<br />
www.suffolkcottageholidays.com<br />
www.bighouseholidays.co.uk<br />
Heritage Hideaways A more<br />
personal approach to cottage<br />
holidays in Suffolk and Norfolk<br />
Tel: 01502 578278<br />
www.heritagehideaways.com<br />
SUFFOLK Secrets Over 280 selfcatering<br />
properties across the<br />
county, all of them VisitEngland<br />
approved.<br />
Tel: 01502 722717<br />
holidays@suffolk-secrets.co.uk<br />
www.suffolk-secrets.co.uk<br />
Hotels<br />
The Brudenell Hotel, Situated in<br />
an idyllic seaside setting, just a<br />
pebble’s throw from <strong>Aldeburgh</strong>’s<br />
shingle beach, the privatelyowned<br />
Brudenell typifies all of<br />
the elements of a luxury four star<br />
seaside hotel. Refurbrished in<br />
2010, the hotel has 44 bedrooms,<br />
many with beautiful sea and<br />
country views. Enjoy fabulous food<br />
served in the sea-facing AA two<br />
rosette restaurant or al fresco on<br />
the beachfront terrace.<br />
Tel: 01728 452071<br />
info@brudenellhotel.co.uk<br />
www.brudenellhotel.co.uk<br />
The Bell Hotel, Saxmundham. A<br />
beautiful 10 bed boutique hotel.<br />
Fine dining, lite bites and events.<br />
Tel: 01728 602331<br />
www.bellhotel-saxmundham.co.uk
Best Western Ufford Park Hotel<br />
located in 120 acres of historic<br />
parkland close to Woodbridge and<br />
less than 10 miles from Snape.<br />
Restaurant, Luxury Spa and<br />
Championship Golf Course.<br />
Tel: 0844 4776473 (local rate)<br />
enquiries@uffordpark.co.uk<br />
www.uffordpark.co.uk<br />
The Crown and Castle, Orford.<br />
10 mins drive from the concert<br />
hall at Snape. 19 en-suite<br />
bedrooms offer either distant<br />
sea views or semi-private garden<br />
terraces. The highly-rated Trinity<br />
bistro offers pre-concert dinners<br />
(local fish/shellfish a speciality).<br />
Tel: 01394 450205<br />
www.crownandcastle.co.uk<br />
Milsoms Kesgrave Hall, 23 bed<br />
4* hotel in 38 acres of woodland<br />
The brasserie serves all day so<br />
there is no need to rush. Rooms<br />
from just £125 room only.<br />
Tel: 01473 333741<br />
www.milsomhotels.com<br />
For advice on camping near <strong>Aldeburgh</strong>, call<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong> reception on 01728 687100<br />
Seckford Hall, Woodbridge. Highlycommended<br />
16th-century country<br />
house hotel and restaurant. Indoor<br />
heated swimming pool, beauty<br />
salon and 18-hole golf. Early/late<br />
suppers.<br />
Tel: 01394 385678<br />
reception@seckford.co.uk<br />
www.seckford.co.uk<br />
Thorpeness Hotel A short drive from<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> and overlooking the<br />
Meare and golf course, Thorpeness<br />
Hotel has 36 en-suite bedrooms.<br />
The restaurant and bar are open<br />
daily to non-residents for morning<br />
coffee, light lunches, afternoon<br />
tea and dinner. Sunday roasts<br />
a speciality. 2–5 bedroomed<br />
self-catering properties are<br />
also available for short breaks<br />
throughout the year.<br />
Tel: 01728 452176<br />
info@thorpeness.co.uk<br />
www.thorpeness.co.uk<br />
The Wentworth Hotel A country<br />
house hotel overlooking the sea.<br />
35 bedrooms many with sea views.<br />
Elegant and comfortable lounges<br />
with open fires, antique furniture<br />
and paintings. Sunken terrace<br />
garden in which morning coffee,<br />
bar lunches and afternoon teas are<br />
served. Restaurant awarded 2 AA<br />
Rosettes. Private car parking.<br />
Tel: 01728 452312<br />
stay@wentworth-aldeburgh.co.uk<br />
www.wentworth-aldeburgh.com<br />
White Lion Hotel is a newly<br />
refurbished beachfront hotel which<br />
prides itself on its relaxed and<br />
informal atmosphere, where the<br />
emphasis is on comfort, fantastic<br />
food and outstanding hospitality.<br />
Seasonally-inspired menus are<br />
served in the vibrant setting of<br />
the Bar & Brasserie, with produce<br />
sourced from the land and sea<br />
close to <strong>Aldeburgh</strong>. Open for<br />
morning coffee, lunch, afternoon<br />
tea and dinner.<br />
Tel: 01728 452720<br />
info@whitelion.co.uk<br />
www.whitelion.co.uk<br />
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Where to eat<br />
The Plough & Sail, Snape Maltings.<br />
Only 100 yards from the concert<br />
hall, our team are proud to<br />
offer local, quality produce<br />
in a welcoming and relaxed<br />
atmosphere. Pre- and post-concert<br />
dining available all year.<br />
Tel: 01728 688413<br />
www.theploughandsailsnape.co.uk<br />
The Golden Key Beautiful historic<br />
pub with low beams and plenty<br />
of character located in Snape<br />
village. We offer real ale, a large<br />
selection of wine by the glass and<br />
homecooked food using seasonal<br />
& local ingredients. Pre-concert<br />
bookings taken from 5.30pm.<br />
Post also available.<br />
Tel: 01728 688510<br />
www.snapegoldenkey.co.uk<br />
Lady Florence River Cruise<br />
Restaurant. Cruises from Orford,<br />
morning brunch, a la carte lunch<br />
and dinner. Vouchers available.<br />
M: 07831 698298<br />
info@lady-florence.co.uk<br />
www.lady-florence.co.uk<br />
The Lighthouse, 77 High Street,<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong>. Sara Fox & Peter Hill.<br />
Morning coffee, lunchtime and<br />
evening restaurant open 7 days.<br />
Good Food Guide, Harden’s, Bib<br />
Gourmand in Michelin.<br />
Tel: 01728 453377<br />
www.lighthouserestaurant.co.uk<br />
152 <strong>Aldeburgh</strong>, High Street,<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong>. Morning coffee, lunch<br />
and dinner 7 days a week. Pre and<br />
post-concert suppers. Recommended<br />
in Good Food Guide.<br />
Tel: 01728 454594<br />
White Horse, Rendham, freehouse,<br />
from A12 take B1119 towards<br />
Framlingham. A traditional village<br />
pub serving real ales and real food.<br />
Evening meals from 6.30pm.<br />
Tel: 01728 663497<br />
www.whitehorserendham.co.uk<br />
What else to do<br />
Snape Maltings is a unique collection<br />
of home and kitchen-ware shops,<br />
galleries, book shop, Samphire<br />
clothing & accessories, Little<br />
Rascals children’s shop, food hall,<br />
tea shop, café and public house,<br />
which fill the Victorian Malthouses.<br />
Enjoy the monthly farmers markets,<br />
river trips and RSPB guided walks<br />
along the Alde Estuary. Open daily<br />
from 10am; free car park.<br />
Tel: 01728 688303<br />
www.snapemaltings.co.uk<br />
Antique & Collectors Centre, Snape<br />
Maltings, 10am–5pm daily. 40<br />
dealers offering an eclectic range<br />
for all pockets & interests.<br />
Tel: 01728 688038<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong> Club Choir<br />
Enjoy Singing? Come and join<br />
us on Tuesdays from 7.30 at<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Community Centre.<br />
No audition required. Next<br />
concert Saturday March 23 at<br />
Snape Maltings. <strong>Music</strong> by Mozart<br />
including Requiem.<br />
Tel 01728 602217<br />
www.aldeburghmusicclub.org.uk<br />
The Gainsborough String Quartet<br />
can add something special to your<br />
wedding or party.<br />
Tel: 07768986014<br />
gainsboroughquartet@gmail.com
Good Neighbours Scheme. There<br />
are more than 20 volunteer-run<br />
schemes in Suffolk who assist<br />
people with errands, shopping,<br />
befriending and transport. In the<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> area call Agnes on<br />
07773 031064 or Aldringhamcum-Thorpe<br />
07521 047843. For<br />
more information about setting up<br />
a scheme:<br />
Tel: 01473 345300<br />
communitysupport@suffolkacre.org<br />
Lady Florence River Cruise<br />
Restaurant. Cruises from Orford,<br />
morning brunch, a la carte lunch<br />
and dinner. Vouchers available.<br />
M: 07831 698298<br />
info@lady-florence.co.uk<br />
www.lady-florence.co.uk<br />
Long Shop Museum, Main Street,<br />
Leiston. Open from 1st April to<br />
end of October. Home of the<br />
Garrett collection. Agricultural,<br />
Industrial and Social History.<br />
www.longshopmuseum.co.uk<br />
O&C Butcher Ladieswear,<br />
Menswear, Footwear. 129–131<br />
High St <strong>Aldeburgh</strong>. Wide range of<br />
quality town and country clothing<br />
available in store or online.<br />
Tel: 01728 452229<br />
www.ocbutcher.co.uk<br />
Slaughden Wines, 142 High Street,<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong>. Fine wine retail outlet<br />
of Richard Kihl Ltd.<br />
Tel: 01728 454455<br />
www.richardkihl.ltd.uk<br />
The Southwold Concert Series offers<br />
creative and bold programmes,<br />
combining the traditional with<br />
more progressive repertoire, and<br />
young artists feature prominently.<br />
Concerts are in St Edmunds<br />
Church, a 15th-century building in<br />
Southwold. Tickets £12.<br />
Tel: 01502 726161<br />
lucy.aldous@springagency.co.uk<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong> will be helping to<br />
co-ordinate audience car sharing.<br />
If you would like to be put in touch<br />
with other audience members from<br />
your area please contact us.<br />
Tel: 01728 687100<br />
www.aldeburgh.co.uk<br />
Other exhibitions<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Gallery<br />
6–12 June 10am–5pm daily<br />
James Dodds and Helen Napper.<br />
Exhibition to celebrate Britten’s<br />
Centenary Year around the theme<br />
of Noye’s Fludde to include<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Boat Trail.<br />
14–19 June 10am–5pm daily<br />
Artists Voices: Mark Hearld, Emily<br />
Sutton, Colin Wilkin<br />
Three young artists taking Britten’s<br />
landscape, seascape and music<br />
often as a starting point, and each<br />
with their own distinctive voice.<br />
The exhibition also includes a room<br />
of modern British work.<br />
20–26 June 10am–5pm daily<br />
Karen Cooley, Landscapes,<br />
Portraits and Still Life.<br />
143 High Street, <strong>Aldeburgh</strong><br />
For details of all these exhibitions<br />
Tel: 01728 453203<br />
www.aldeburghartsgallery.co.uk<br />
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Gallery 44<br />
9–23 June Sundays 12–2, other<br />
days 11–5. Images of Grimes an<br />
interpretation of Crabbe’s poem<br />
The Borough by Victoria Crowe<br />
OBE RSA RSW<br />
Sandhill, Priors Hill Road <strong>Aldeburgh</strong><br />
Tel: 01728 452035<br />
a.cuddigan@btinternet.com<br />
www.aldeburgh.co.uk<br />
Snape Maltings Gallery<br />
7 June–4 July daily from 10–5.30pm<br />
Tessa Newcomb. Her new collection<br />
for the Gallery at Snape Maltings<br />
is inspired by ‘Animals, Great and<br />
Small’ from her delightful<br />
dachshund Nina to a Suffolk Punch.<br />
Snape Maltings, Snape<br />
Tel 01728 688303<br />
www.snapemaltings.co.uk<br />
Lookout Britten<br />
The <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Beach South<br />
Lookout, stunningly located on the<br />
same beach that Britten created<br />
his music, is now a unique place<br />
for artists to create, make and<br />
exhibit, all in one magical tower.<br />
Each day during June a different<br />
artist, poet, writer or performer will<br />
present their own contemporary<br />
interpretation of Benjamin<br />
Britten’s legacy.<br />
The <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Beach Lookout and<br />
The Art House, 31 Crag Path,<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong>, Suffolk, IP15 5BS<br />
Tel: 01728 452754<br />
caroline@carolinewiseman.com<br />
www.aldeburghbeachlookout.com<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Cinema Gallery<br />
8–23 June 10–5pm daily.<br />
Jane Mackay presents Gloriana:<br />
a new collection of oil paintings<br />
celebrating the 60th anniversary of<br />
Britten’s opera.<br />
High Street, <strong>Aldeburgh</strong><br />
Feetham Gallery Exhibition<br />
8–17 & 21–23 June<br />
Will include works by Ardizzone,<br />
Ralph Maynard Smith, Elizabeth<br />
Vellacott and other mid C20th<br />
British artists and illustrators: also<br />
paintings by Caroline McAdam<br />
Clark and a selection of studio<br />
ceramics and sculpture.<br />
Hill Lodge, Church Walk, <strong>Aldeburgh</strong><br />
Tel: 01728 452209<br />
www.piersfeethamgallery.com<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> Studios Trail<br />
Open all weekends of the <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
Based in <strong>Aldeburgh</strong>, we are an<br />
eclectic group of artists and<br />
makers. We invite you to take time<br />
off to visit our studios. All within<br />
walking distance of one another.<br />
www.aldeburghstudiostrail.co.uk<br />
Studio Exhibition<br />
8–23 June Weekends 11.30am–<br />
4pm, weekdays by appointment<br />
Artist Sula Rubens and classical<br />
guitar maker Jake Fuller exhibit<br />
with guests, classical guitars,<br />
paintings, prints and sculptures<br />
40 Wangford Rd (opposite Randolph<br />
Hotel) Reydon, Southwold IP18 6PY<br />
Tel: 01502 723408<br />
www.sularubens.com<br />
www.purnellguitars.com<br />
Advertise here<br />
To advertise your accommodation<br />
or business here please contact<br />
Nikki Horton, Operations<br />
Administrator on 01728 687161<br />
or mail nhorton@aldeburgh.co.uk<br />
www.aldeburgh.co.uk
Acknowledgements<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong> gratefully<br />
acknowledges generous<br />
support from:<br />
Recipient of a Catalyst Arts:<br />
Endowments grant to raise<br />
£1m for the <strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong><br />
Endowment Fund and have these<br />
funds matched £ for £.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong> Endowment Fund<br />
is a registered charity No. 282610<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong> works in close<br />
association with the Britten–Pears<br />
Foundation and gratefully<br />
acknowledges its substantial<br />
financial support for the Britten–<br />
Pears Young Artist Programme.<br />
Open Space, <strong>Aldeburgh</strong>’s<br />
expanded residency programme<br />
is generously supported by<br />
We also thank the many other<br />
trusts and foundations, individuals,<br />
businesses and other private<br />
organizations that support our work.<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong> is a registered<br />
charity No. 261383 and a company<br />
limited by guarantee registered in<br />
England and Wales No. 980281<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> is a<br />
registered trademark ®<br />
The right is reserved to substitute<br />
artists and vary the advertised<br />
programme if necessary. All<br />
information is correct at time of<br />
going to press.<br />
Graphic design: Silk Pearce<br />
Printed by: The Five Castles Press<br />
on FSC ® certified paper<br />
Cover photo: Grimes on the beach<br />
by Philip Vile<br />
Some concerts are being recorded<br />
by BBC Radio 3. Please consult the<br />
programme book for the date<br />
of broadcasting.<br />
International<br />
media partner
FRIDAY 7 JUNE<br />
Peter Grimes in concert 7.30pm * ˚<br />
SATURDAY 8 JUNE<br />
Aimard & Aimard 11am<br />
SNAP <strong>2013</strong> Launch 1pm<br />
Angels in Blythburgh 4pm<br />
Cabaret Songs 6pm<br />
Les Illuminations 8pm * ˚<br />
Cabaret Songs 10.30pm<br />
SUNDAY 9 JUNE<br />
Friday Afternoons 3pm<br />
Voices for Today 4.30pm ˚<br />
Peter Grimes in concert 7.30pm<br />
MONDAY 10 JUNE<br />
Hesse Lecture 11am<br />
Vertavo Quartet 3pm *<br />
Sadrine Piau 7.30pm<br />
˚<br />
TUESDAY 11 JUNE<br />
Schubert Octet 3pm<br />
Piano Century: 1913–<strong>2013</strong> 7.30pm<br />
WEDNESDAY 12 JUNE<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Walk I 9.30am<br />
Guy Barker: That Obscure Hurt<br />
7.30pm *<br />
˚<br />
THURSDAY 13 JUNE<br />
Britten on Film I 2pm<br />
He Who Pays the Piper 5.30pm<br />
Songs from the Same Earth 7.30pm *<br />
* Accompanied by pre–performance event/talk<br />
Recorded or Broadcast by BBC Radio 3<br />
˚<br />
FRIDAY 14 JUNE<br />
Britten–Pears Young Artists I 11am<br />
Perspectives on Britten 3pm<br />
Hesse Students Concert 5pm<br />
Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra I<br />
7.30pm * ˚<br />
SATURDAY 15 JUNE<br />
Quatuor Mosaïques I 11am ˚<br />
Composer Portrait: Harvey 3pm<br />
A Tribute to Jonathan Harvey 5.45pm<br />
Poem of Ecstasy 7.30pm *<br />
Stockhausen: Kontakte 10pm<br />
SUNDAY 16 JUNE<br />
Quatuor Mosaïques II 3pm ˚<br />
Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra II 6pm<br />
The Church Parables: Curlew River<br />
9.30pm<br />
MONDAY 17 JUNE<br />
Ronald Blythe: Time by the Sea 3pm<br />
The Church Parables:<br />
The Burning Fiery Furnace and<br />
The Prodigal Son 7pm<br />
Grimes on the Beach 8.30pm<br />
TUESDAY 18 JUNE<br />
Chamber <strong>Music</strong> Century:<br />
1913–<strong>2013</strong> 3pm<br />
Christian Zacharias 7pm<br />
The Church Parables: Curlew River<br />
9.30pm *<br />
WEDNESDAY 19 JUNE<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Walk II 9.30am<br />
The Church Parables: The Burning Fiery<br />
Furnace and The Prodigal Son 7pm<br />
Grimes on the Beach 8.30pm<br />
THURSDAY 20 JUNE<br />
Britten on Film II 11am<br />
Dowland Songs and Dances 3pm<br />
Britten Dances 8pm *<br />
FRIDAY 21 JUNE<br />
Tokyo Quartet 11am ˚<br />
Britten–Pears Young Artists II 3pm<br />
Hesse Students Concert 5pm<br />
SNAP: the discussion 6pm<br />
Britten Dances 8pm<br />
Grimes on the Beach 8.30pm<br />
SATURDAY 22 JUNE<br />
Piano Century: The Year 1913 11am<br />
Ian Bostridge Masterclass<br />
Course Recital 2.30pm<br />
Tribute to Elliott Carter 6pm<br />
Dialogues 7.30pm ˚<br />
SUNDAY 23 JUNE<br />
Albert Herring Feast 12.45pm<br />
The Young Person’s Guide 2.30pm<br />
The Hallé Orchestra 4pm ˚<br />
PLUS Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake<br />
public masterclasses on 16, 17, 18,<br />
20, 21 June 2.30pm<br />
<strong>Aldeburgh</strong> <strong>Music</strong> Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP<br />
Box Office 01728 687110 boxoffice@aldeburgh.co.uk www.aldeburgh.co.uk