Aldeburgh Festival 2012 by Suffolk Secrets

8–24 June 2012

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Acknowledgements

We are also grateful to the following for their support of the 65th Aldeburgh Festival: Cambridge Assessment Easton Farm Park The Holst Foundation Garth & Lucy Pollard

Friday 8 June 7.30pm

Where the Wild Things Are & Higglety Pigglety Pop! ‘Children are the only reasonably sane audience’ – Maurice Sendak Cast includes Claire Booth, Susan Bickley, Rebecca Bottone, Lucy Schaufer, Graeme Danby, Christopher Gillett, Jonathan Gunthorpe, Graeme Broadbent · Netia Jones director/designer Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Britten Sinfonia Music by Oliver Knussen Text by Maurice Sendak Two of the world’s most beloved books for children, Where The Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop! spring to life in these wildly imaginative operas by Oliver Knussen and Maurice Sendak. The boisterous Max journeys from his bedroom to a land of giant creatures with yellow rolling eyes, and the feisty terrier Jennie abandons the comforts of home to venture out into the world in search of Experience. In this multimedia performance, singers, orchestra and projections collide in a joyous celebration of these brilliant works.

‘It’s as though he’s taken it and musically pictured … one step beyond what I’ve done… He’s carried it into another generation … He has moved it into his time, but with an authenticity and truthfulness that I feel.’ Maurice Sendak on Oliver Knussen Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 9.45pm) Tickets £32, £28, £24, £19, £14 Under 27s half price Coach £4 A (5.30pm), B (6.30pm) Suitable for children aged 8 and over A co-production with the Barbican Centre and Los Angeles Philharmonic Association This performance is supported by Lindsay & Sarah Tomlinson and a small syndicate of individuals Second performance on Sunday 10 June at 2.30pm

The Festival celebrates Oliver Knussen’s 60th birthday with an invitation as Artist in Residence, featuring his music and conducting. ‘Knussen changed the face of British new music in the 1990s … music of luminous detail and distilled, concentrated power’ The Guardian

Saturday 9 June 11am

Saturday 9 – Tuesday 12 & Thursday 14 June

Miklós Perényi I

Festival Masterclasses: Menahem Pressler

Miklós Perényi cello Bach Suite No.1 for solo cello in G BWV1007 Veress Cello Sonata Lutoslawski Sacher Variations Bach Suite No.4 for solo cello in E flat BWV1010 In the first of three concerts, the great Hungarian cellist, Miklós Perényi joins us for his Aldeburgh debut. His is an intuitive, calmly authoritative musicianship, with awe-inspiring technical facility and incisive interpretative powers. Who better to traverse the well-trodden but endlessly shifting landscape of the Bach suites, in a fascinating framework of 20th-century solos, including a piece by his compatriot and Bartók associate, Sándor Veress. Aldeburgh Church 11am (ends approx 12.10pm) Tickets £17, £14, £8 Under 27s half price Supported by the family of Isador Caplan (1912–1995) to commemorate his centenary SNAP Open Day This year’s Festival visual art show has an Open Day on site at Snape, 1pm–4pm. Admission free, no ticket required. Please see page 51 for details.

Menahem Pressler piano The legendary pianist gives an intensive series of masterclasses on chamber music by Schumann and Brahms, as part of an Aldeburgh Festival residency. Core repertoire for any ensemble with piano, this is true chamber music, full of intimate and romantic lyricism as well as technical bravura. He will also give a class for solo pianists, some of whom will also be working with Festival Artistic Director, Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Masterclasses Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape Brahms & Schumann chamber music 9–12 June, 2pm–4.15pm Britten Studio, Snape Solo piano repertoire 14 June, 11am–1pm Tickets £5 per session or Pass £20 (all sessions) Recital Britten Studio, Snape 14 June, 5pm Tickets £6 The Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme is generously supported by

Saturday 9 June 3pm

Sea Change James Boyd guitar Robin Tritschler tenor Elspeth Brooke New work (world premiere) Jonathan Dove New work (world premiere) Britten Songs from the Chinese Two world premieres mark the start of a unique musical adventure as guitarist, James Boyd embarks on a voyage to Orkney aboard his classic boat Concord of Mersea. His journey is inspiring a new repertoire for guitar and voice that will be completed for the Britten Centenary in 2013. Concord will be anchored off the yacht club and will set sail from the River Alde immediately after the concert.

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Aldeburgh Yacht Club 3pm (ends approx 3.45pm) Tickets £8 (free to Aldeburgh Yacht Club members, but please book) Under 27s half price The commission of Elspeth Brooke’s new work is supported by the family of Isador Caplan (1912–1995) to commemorate his centenary This performance was prepared during an Aldeburgh Residency Aldeburgh Residencies are supported by the John Ellerman Foundation

Saturday 9 June 5pm

Gabriela Montero Gabriela Montero piano Brahms Six piano pieces Op.118 Chopin Ballades Nos.1 & 4 And improvisations on themes suggested by the audience Gabriela Montero’s qualities as recitalist are recognised by audiences worldwide and have been nurtured by no less a mentor than Martha Argerich, yet she remains mystifyingly little known in the UK; and when Pierre-Laurent Aimard first heard her last year, he immediately invited her to the Festival.

But it is her reputation as a free-spirited improviser that sets her apart, taking some of the great works of the classical repertoire and embellishing and extending them to form new works of invention, immediacy and integrity. Music-making of intellectual and technical prowess furnished with an irrepressible sense of joy and unbuttoned spontaneity. A pianist who combines fantasy with form, control with caprice and unites that elusive trinity of composer, performer and audience in a refreshingly unconventional but thought-provoking experience. Britten Studio, Snape 5pm (ends approx 7pm) Tickets £18, £15 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (4pm)

Saturday 9 June 8pm

Scottish Chamber Orchestra Scottish Chamber Orchestra Peter Serkin piano Oliver Knussen conductor Ives Washington’s Birthday Oliver Knussen New work for piano and orchestra Stravinsky Movements for piano and orchestra Berg Three Movements from Lyric Suite

The SCO continues at the helm of European orchestras. Adventurous in outlook, with playing of elasticity and immediacy, their partnership with Knussen is understandably blossoming. Snape 8pm (ends approx 9.35pm) Tickets £32, £28, £24, £19, £14 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (7pm) Sponsored by

To celebrate Oliver Knussen’s 60th birthday and long Aldeburgh association, the first in a series of Festival concerts curated by him as Artist in Residence. Berg’s Lyric Suite contains impassioned music within its complex frame, a work of subtle structure and a sensuous, sonorous beauty. A vibrant directness, and an elegant precision are the hallmarks too of the music – and the conducting – of Oliver Knussen, whose new work was written for tonight’s soloist. Knussen is a powerful advocate for one of his musical heroes, Stravinsky (his supercompressed piano concerto) and brings control and caprice to the fractured festivities of Ives’ mini-tone poem – a bone-chilling winter night enlivened by a barn dance.

Generously supported by the Robey Family

Sunday 10 June 10.30am

Sunday 10 June 12.30pm

Festival Service

Open Air

Aldeburgh Parish Church welcomes parishioners and visitors for the traditional opening weekend Festival Service. The church choir is joined by Jubilee Opera Chorus and Aldeburgh Voices, and the sung mass is Kodály’s Missa Brevis. The service is led by the Revd Canon Nigel Hartley with guest preacher the Revd Canon David Pritchard, Acting Dean of Ely Cathedral.

The Invisible Voice

Between 3pm and 6pm today, there will be a full Festival peal of bells.

An exciting vocal experiment led by The Voice Project. Come along and absorb the vocal happenings around you or even get involved yourself. This event is sure to stretch your vocal cords. Fun for the whole family. Aldeburgh Beach – between the North and South Lookout Towers 12.30pm Free, no ticket required With the generous support of the Chapman Charitable Trust

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Sunday 10 June 2.30pm

Suitable for children aged 8 and over

Where the Wild Things Are & Higglety Pigglety Pop!

A co-production with the Barbican Centre and Los Angeles Philharmonic Association

‘Children are the only reasonably sane audience’ – Maurice Sendak Netia Jones director/designer Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Britten Sinfonia Music by Oliver Knussen Text by Maurice Sendak

This performance is generously supported by the Chapman Charitable Trust Post-performance discussion with director/designer Netia Jones and members of the cast Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape 5pm. Admission free to ticket-holders.

Second performance. Please see page 4 for details. Snape 2.30pm (ends approx 4.45pm) Tickets £32, £28, £24, £19, £14 Family ticket £40 (max of two adults and two Under-18s) Under 27s half price Coach £4 (1.30pm)

Modern British Sculpture Sculptor, Laurence Edwards talks about casting in bronze, using the site’s works by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Sarah Lucas as examples. Meet in the Outer Foyer of the Concert Hall at 6.30pm. Tickets £5

Sunday 10 June 6.30pm

Sunday 10 June 8pm

Oliver Knussen in Conversation

Peter Serkin

Oliver Knussen in conversation with Julian Anderson

Peter Serkin piano

To mark his 60th birthday his friend, composer Julian Anderson talks with Oliver Knussen about his career as a composer, conductor, and Aldeburgh Festival Artistic Director.

Wolpe Toccata in Three Parts Takemitsu For Away Alexander Goehr ‘Air’, ‘Air – Double’ Oliver Knussen Variations; Prayer-Bell Sketch Beethoven Diabelli Variations

Britten Studio, Snape 6.30pm (ends approx 7.15pm) Free, no ticket required

Long-time collaborator of Oliver Knussen, Peter Serkin performs Beethoven’s magnificent set of 33 variations – an astonishing feat of fantasy, finesse and musical structural engineering, the modest waltz theme being ‘not only improved, parodied, ridiculed, disclaimed, transfigured, mourned, stamped out and finally uplifted’ (Alfred Brendel). Completing this programme, Knussen’s masterly, concise variations; familiar forms refracted by Wolpe and Goehr; and Takemitsu and Knussen’s tiny essays in piano sonority, tableaux of tuned percussion and resonating bells. Snape 8pm (ends approx 10.15pm) Tickets £20, £18, £15, £12, £10 Under 27s half price Coach £4 A (6pm), B (7pm) Supported by Selman & Suzanne Selvi

Monday 11 June 11am

SNAP – A Discussion Exploring the 2012 Festival exhibition Legendary curator, Norman Rosenthal, former head of exhibitions at the Royal Academy, chairs a discussion about this year’s SNAP visual arts show, with a panel including some of the artists. Please see page 51 for more details about SNAP. Britten Studio, Snape 11am (ends approx 12.15pm) Tickets £5 (free to students and Under-27s)

Monday 11 June 3pm

Monday 11 June 8pm

Miklós Perényi II

Goerne & Aimard

Miklós Perényi cello

Matthias Goerne baritone Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano

Bach Suite No.2 for solo cello in D minor BWV1008 György Kurtág Signs, Games and Messages (excerpts) Bach Suite No.5 for solo cello in C minor BWV1011

Lieder by Schumann and Brahms

To write for solo cello is perhaps to be ever in the shadow of Bach’s great monuments. Yet few have captured the instrument’s expressive potential as the enigmatic original, György Kurtág. These are works of brevity and beauty, some of them little more than tiny collections of fleeting yet weighty gestures – traces of forgotten melody, whispered confidences, brittle shards. An inspiring counterweight to the two minor key Bach suites, where the spirit of the dance is tempered by the profound solemnity of the central Sarabandes. Blythburgh Church 3pm (ends approx 4.10pm) Tickets £17, £14, £8 Under 27s half price Coach £7 (2pm) With support from Caroline Erskine

After a series of 5-star reviewed concerts in last year’s Festival, Matthias Goerne and Pierre-Laurent Aimard make a welcome return with Schumann and Brahms. Deeply considered, but with a vibrant immediacy and at times shattering expressive power, the duo’s performances are distinguished by a palpable electricity between performers and audience. ‘With every performance of Winterreise … Matthias Goerne goes a further step beyond all other interpreters of the work: at Aldeburgh, he and Pierre-Laurent gave a performance of such daring, intensity and intimacy that it’s hard to imagine anything more definitive. I believe it’s at festivals such as Aldeburgh that certain artists present their boldest interpretations: maybe the environment frees them…’ musicOMH Snape 8pm (ends approx 9.30pm) Tickets £26, £22, £18, £14, £10 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (7pm) Supported by Clive & Eileen Schlee

Tuesday 12 June 11am

Films: Bartók Double Bill Introduced by Humphrey Burton After the Storm: the American exile of Béla Bartók Directed by Donald Sturrock Solti conducts Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra Directed and produced by Humphrey Burton ‘It’s as though we’ve been caught in a storm at sea and blown to shore with no more than the clothes on our backs’, wrote Béla Bartók on his arrival in New York in 1940, fleeing war-torn Europe. The composer spent his final years in America, experiencing considerable poverty and chronic illness, but it was this period late in his life that produced some of his finest music. In this thoughtful film, friends and colleagues, including Yehudi Menuhin and Georg Solti, join his sons in telling the story of Bartók’s American exile and the return of his coffin to Budapest forty-three years after his death, in doing so making a touching personal portrait of Hungary’s greatest composer.

In Humphrey Burton’s film, Sir Georg Solti conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Bartók’s late work, Concerto for Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, recorded in 1989. This BBC gem from the archive includes Solti in rehearsal with the orchestra and solo interviews that demonstrate his enthusiasm and passion for the piece. Solti’s profound understanding of his friend and former teacher’s music is strikingly apparent in Humphrey Burton’s insightful film. The first event in our Bartók focus. Aldeburgh Cinema 11am (ends approx 1.35pm) Tickets £8

Tuesday 12 June 3pm

Tuesday 12 June 7.30pm

Miklós Perényi III

Collegium Vocale Gent

Miklós Perényi cello

Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe director

Bach Suite No.3 for solo cello in C BWV1009 Ligeti Cello Sonata Bach Suite No.6 for solo cello in D BWV1012 Commentators have sought to ascribe a single character to each of Bach’s suites, and Casals apparently nominated ‘heroic’ as an epithet to the third. In truth, however, every suite contains an inexhaustible variety of expressive contours. What joy and grandeur is wrought from the single opening C major scale of the third suite, and yet what quiet solemnity is intoned in its inner movements. Bartók and Kodály may lurk in the background of the young Ligeti’s miniature classic, but as ardent lyricism gives way to a vigorous caprice, the twentieth century master’s voice is all his own. Blythburgh Church 3pm (ends approx 4.15pm) Tickets £17, £14, £8 Under 27s half price Coach £7 (2pm) Supported by Michael Guest, in memory of Sybil Guest

Gesualdo Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday and Holy Saturday; Benedictus; Miserere Mei Making their Aldeburgh debut, Herreweghe and his stellar forces are leaders of the Early Music world, famed for revelatory, scrupulously detailed performances that combine precision with a fervent intensity. Gesualdo’s music has the ability to shock, surprise and inspire even 400 years after his death. With its yearning vocal lines, sensuous dissonant harmonies

and wildly fluctuating moods, it is music of tenderness and turmoil, strange, unconventional, but housing a searing directness, and heart-stopping, astringent beauty, at its most expressive in the service of these powerful liturgical texts. ‘Rich, unforced sound and calm command’ New York Times

Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 9.45pm) (Please note the interval will be 40 mins) Tickets £24, £21, £18, £14, £10 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (6.30pm) Pre-performance talk with Tess Knighton. Snape 6.30pm Admission free, but please book.

Wednesday 13 June 9.30am

Festival Walk I Hatchments and a Victorian Model Farm Along the banks of the Alde & Ore to the only model farm in the Suffolk Sandlings. Here we will have a talk and guided tour of its 19th-century buildings, which will give us a last peep into their original use, as they are gradually being adapted for the 21st century. The farm has been in the ownership of the Watson family since 1917. We will have lunch at the farm, and in the afternoon we cross its fields to Sudbourne Church to view the magnificent display of recently restored Hatchments. Suitable clothing and footwear essential. Not a circular walk. Sorry no dogs. Depart Moot Hall, Aldeburgh. Coaches from 9.30am (see ticket for exact timings); return from 4pm Distance approx 7 miles Tickets £22 (inc. lunch and coach) With support from

Wednesday 13 June 7.30pm

Menahem Pressler Menahem Pressler piano Mozart Rondo in A minor K511 Beethoven Sonata No.17 in D minor Op.31, No.2 Chopin Nocturne in D flat Op.27 No.2; Ballade No.3 in A flat Op.47 György Kurtág New work Schubert Piano Sonata No.21 in B flat D960 Menahem Pressler is universally admired for his effortlessly stylish pianism. Now well into his sixth decade on the concert platform, the end of the Beaux Arts Trio era in 2008 (Pressler was founder member and its only pianist for 55 years) saw the

opening of another for him – new chamber music collaborations, and a refreshed and revitalised career as soloist and recitalist. His programme embodies the depth and scope of his musicianship, embellishing the Mozart–Beethoven–Schubert axis with a flourish of Chopin, and joining a select band of pianists for whom György Kurtág has written a musical tribute. Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 9.30pm) Tickets £20, £18, £15, £12, £10 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (6.30pm) Sponsored by

Thursday 14 June 2pm

Britten Films: An Exploration John Bridcut with Nicholas Collon ‘1936 … finds me earning my living – with occasionally something to spare – at the the GPO film unit … writing music and supervising sounds for film’, wrote the young Britten. The unit’s director, John Grierson was able to call on the talents of rising stars Britten and Auden but also other leading experimental artists, film-makers and directors of the day.

Seventy five years later, it is becoming ever clearer that the composer’s brief time in that remarkable environment had a formative influence on his collaborations, political views and his compositional technique. An illustrated discussion exploring an astonishing artistic collective, and how some of Britten’s very first professional commissions were to leave a powerful impression on his future creative life. Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh 2pm (ends approx 3.30pm) Tickets £12 Under 27s half price Festival Masterclasses: Menahem Pressler Recital at 5pm. Please see page 5 for details.

Thursday 14 June 8pm

Britten Films Aurora Orchestra · Sam West narrator Aldeburgh Voices · Jubilee Opera Chorus Nicholas Collon conductor Britten The complete scores for film (Night Mail; The Way to the Sea; Men behind the Meters; The Tocher; Coal Face; The King’s Stamp; God’s Chillun; Peace of Britain; Sixpenny Telegram) Performed live together as a set for the first time with the original films, this is a presentation of Britten’s complete existing documentary film scores. The films – with subjects ranging from postage stamps to pacifism, the abolition of the slave trade to the electrification of the London-Portsmouth railway – are wonderfully made and fascinating historical documents.

Britten’s music brilliantly reflects, amplifies and underpins the screen images with scores of rich variety, invention and no little wit. A celebration of composer’s craft and filmmaker’s technique, an insight into 1930s Britain and a snapshot of the art of propaganda before the term became besmirched forever by the extreme forces of political repression. Snape 8pm (ends approx 10pm) Tickets £22, £19, £16, £13, £10 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (7pm) Supported by the Friends of Aldeburgh Music

Friday 15 June 11am

Britten–Pears Young Artists I: European Connections Rhodes Piano Trio Agata Schmidt mezzo-soprano Beethoven Folksong arrangements for voice and piano trio Vasco Mendonça New work for voice and piano trio* Brahms Piano Trio in C op.87 The Britten–Pears Programme’s strengthening ties with their European counterparts at the Aix-enProvence and Verbier summer festivals continues to bear fruit with the latest in a series of co-commissions from emerging young international composers. The Portuguese Vasco Mendonça is currently studying with George Benjamin, and both singer and trio made lasting impressions at 2011 Aldeburgh masterclasses.

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Culminating in the irresistible dramatic sweep of Brahms’ mature masterpiece, the programme opens with a rarity: Beethoven’s prolific arranging is little known but at its best these idiosyncratic hybrids of high art and folk song are touched with an affecting charm and invigorated by a characteristic verve and good humour. Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh 11am (ends approx 12.30pm) Tickets £15, £12 Under 27s half price Supported by Alan & Judi Britten This performance was prepared during an Aldeburgh Residency Aldeburgh Residencies are supported by the John Ellerman Foundation * Vasco Mendonça’s new work has been jointly commissioned by Aix-en-Provence, Verbier and Aldeburgh festivals The Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme is generously supported by

Friday 15 June 3pm

Film: Henry Moore Carving a Reputation directed and produced by James Runcie To mark the recent arrival of Henry Moore’s sculpture Large Interior Form on the site at Snape, an apt Festival screening of a two-part BBC film focusing on the life and reputation of the sculptor, whose association with Britten and Pears began in the 1960s. Featuring archive footage of Moore discussing his work, the film also includes frank interviews with friends, colleagues and the women who loved him. James Runcie’s film – first shown on BBC2 in 1998 – is an intriguing insight into influences on Moore’s work, and reflects on the life of the artist as student, teacher and innovator. Aldeburgh Cinema 3pm (ends approx 4.45pm) Free, but please book Large Interior Form (1981–2) is on loan from the Henry Moore Foundation

Hesse Students Concert Music students have been assisting with running Aldeburgh Festival concerts in return for free tickets for over half a century. This is the first of their popular end-of-week Hesse Students Concerts, which have become a permanent fixture in the Festival schedule. Pumphouse, Aldeburgh 5pm (ends approx 6pm) Tickets £3

Friday 15 June 7.30pm

Dezsö Ránki Dezsö Ránki piano Barnabás Dukay Rondino, that speaks to the heart; …made of sunlight, stones and water… (UK premiere) Haydn Sonata in E flat Hob.XVI/49 Liszt Unstern!; En rêve, Mephisto Waltz No.4, Impromptu, Toccata, Mephisto-Polka, Wiegenlied Bartók Romanian Christmas Songs; For Children (selection); Out of Doors A rare British visit and an Aldeburgh debut for Deszö Ránki, who brings his renowned qualities – incisive clarity, an alert and persuasive musicianship and formidable technique – to a programme of invigorating contrasts.

The coupling of Liszt’s late piano masterpieces with Bartók is an intriguing one, epic technicolour canvases seemingly at odds with simpler, sparse clarity of etchings. But both drew inspiration from natural world, Bartók in his earthy sketches from Hungarian rural life. There is also – unsurprisingly from these great composer-pianists – an intuitive grasp of the piano’s potential, from rich washes of sound to a muscular percussive clarity. ‘He is part of the same prodigious generation as Andras Schiff and Zoltan Kocsis, but Ranki is virtually unknown in this country. His ... recital revealed what we have been missing: music making of bluff honesty and technical assurance.’ The Guardian

Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 9.20pm) Tickets £20, £18, £15, £12, £10 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (6.30pm) Supported by Reed level Annual Donors

Saturday 16 June 11am

Saturday 16 June 3pm

Alfred Brendel

Keller Quartet I

Liszt, Genius of Expression: an illustrated lecture

Keller Quartet

Schumann called him a ‘genius of expression’ but not only was Liszt the greatest of pianists but also, in Wagner’s words, ‘the most musical of musicians’. His compositions are of uneven merit; the most important, however, stand besides those of Chopin and Schumann. Perhaps no other composer has traversed such a wide musical distance in a life that started with his early years of brilliance and exuberance to the ascetic ‘bitterness of heart’ in the final decade. With piano illustrations, Alfred Brendel’s lecture tries to give an unbiased picture of this many-faceted man.

Bartók Quartet No.3; Quartet No.4 Bach The Art of Fugue (excerpts)

Snape 11am (ends approx 12.15pm) Tickets £18, £16, £14, £11, £9 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (10am)

The Hungarian Keller Quartet’s renowned performances and recording of Bartók’s quartets have established them amongst the composer’s foremost interpreters. Bartók’s beloved, folk-inflected melodies and rhythms co-exist with music of an enigmatic sinuous beauty, the starkly abstract melding with thrillingly direct expression. Here, at the start of a complete cycle of Bartók’s quartets, they contrast his bold and brilliant innovations in instrumental colour, pillars of contrapuntal invention surrounded by a 20th-century radical’s approach to symmetrical form, with the chiselled purity of Bach. ‘They have courage and they take their time for profound mourning. They never fall into an abyss of sentimentality.’ Süddeutsche Zeitung Aldeburgh Church 3pm (ends approx 4.50pm) Tickets £18, £15, £10 Under 27s half price

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Saturday 16 June 7.30pm

Monteverdi Choir & Gardiner Monteverdi Choir · John Eliot Gardiner conductor

Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 9.15pm) Tickets £32, £28, £24, £19, £14 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (6.30pm) Sponsored by

‘Via Francigena’ A musical pilgrimage from Canterbury to Rome The Monteverdi Choir under founder and artistic director, Sir John Eliot Gardiner are preparing a musical pilgrimage to mark their 50th anniversary in 2014. With echoes of their spectacular millennium Bach pilgrimage, they plan to perform the glories of Renaissance polyphony across the continent. Aldeburgh in 2012 sees the first steps on this journey, with music by Tallis and Byrd set alongside their Flemish, French and Italian contemporaries and predecessors, including works by Josquin, Lassus, Palestrina and Monteverdi.

Supported by Stephen & Victoria Swift The Monteverdi Choir will be appearing at the Pumphouse – find out more about the Pumphouse programme on aldeburgh.co.uk

Sunday 17 – Monday 18 June

Sunday 17 June 12 noon

Festival Masterclasses: Lachenmann Piano Music

Open Air

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Yukiko Sugawara piano

Bring your dancing shoes to Aldeburgh Beach for a fun-filled, toe-tapping journey to the 1940s and 1950s era of Swing Jive. Led by local dancers Esther and David Tutthill, you will be guided through the basic steps of Swing Jive in the most unusual of tea dance settings.

The Festival Director has always stressed the importance of teaching among his polymath musical activities and was determined to play this role in this year’s Festival. These two classes are the culmination of a week of work with four exceptional young pianists preparing the complete works of Lachenmann for the concert on Tuesday. Helmut Lachenmann himself will also participate. Britten Studio, Snape Masterclasses 17 June, 10am–12 noon; 18 June, 10am–1pm; Open Session for Composers 23 June, 6pm. Tickets £5 per session The Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme is generously supported by

Big Beach Jive

Beginners to advanced welcome. Period dress optional – but very welcome! Aldeburgh Beach – between the North and South Lookout Towers 12 noon Free, no ticket required Sponsored by

Sunday 17 – Tuesday 19 June

Introducing Helmut Lachenmann Helmut Lachenmann’s music is like no other; catching, teasing, overwhelming the ears with an astonishingly original approach to instrumental colour. A sound world borne not by arid, abstract concepts or mere gimmickry, this is a brilliantly communicative imagination at work, a strange but bewitching music capable of other-worldly sensual beauty, brutal physicality, ghostly glances into history and a searching look into the future. In his immensely sophisticated, carefully crafted works, he has – without recourse to electronics – almost single-handedly advanced the notion of what is possible for conventional acoustic instruments. This brief portrait of his music features an overview of his gripping large ensemble music, an incomparable triptych of string quartets, a complete retrospective of his music for solo piano, and the composer himself as teacher, presenter of his music, and in conversation. Helmut Lachenmann’s residency is supported by the Hildon Foundation

Sunday 17 June 3pm

Arditti Quartet I Arditti Quartet Helmut Lachenmann presenter Helmut Lachenmann Gran Torso: Music for String Quartet; String Quartet No.2 ‘Reigen seliger Geister’ Gran Torso pitches the listener head first into a new world of musical sounds, a new way – even – of composing. It’s not a harsh landing – Lachenmann may forgo the traditional ‘text’ of pitches and rhythms but he seems to articulate his radical new manifesto in a series of whispered confidences. There is an unsettlingly alien, but ultimately gently poetic beauty here, derived from meticulously calculated but bold explorations of the instrument’s capabilities.

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His second quartet may retreat from the brink in terms of compositional convention – there is even a title alluding to Gluck – but the effect is no less engrossing. Presented by the composer himself, this is a fascinating snapshot of the processes behind an extraordinary series of works, and an introduction to one of modernism’s most original voices. Britten Studio, Snape 3pm (ends approx 4.30pm) Tickets £13 or £20 for both Arditti concerts Under 27s half price Coach £4 (2pm)

Sunday 17 June 6pm

CBSO & Knussen City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Birmingham Contemporary Music Group* Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Dawn Upshaw soprano* EXAUDI · Oliver Knussen conductor Harrison Birtwistle Cantus Iambeus Bartók Three Village Scenes Elliott Carter Interventions for piano and orchestra (UK premiere) Oliver Knussen Requiem – Songs for Sue* Ives The Fourth of July; Three Places in New England Ives’ delight in forming a ‘set’ from an assemblage of apparently independent parts is matched by the serious originality of Knussen’s programme-building. Three Places in New England and The Fourth of July are a blend of an understated yet all-American grandeur with music of raucous celebration, a carefully crafted chaos of borrowed popular tunes and sophisticated collision of multiple musics.

Birtwistle’s ebullient perpetual motion seems in harmony with the earthy joys of Bartók’s rustic miniatures. Carter’s anti-concerto, lyrical and feisty, prefaces a modern-day classic of a Requiem. An Elliott Carter premiere by two of the leading exponents of his music that continues the recent sequence of Carter premieres at Aldeburgh. Snape 6pm (ends approx 8.10pm) Tickets £32, £28, £24, £19, £14 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (5pm) Supported by Peter & Veronica Lofthouse

Sunday 17 June 9pm

Monday 18 – Sunday 24 June

Arditti Quartet II

Festival Masterclasses: Dawn Upshaw

Arditti Quartet Helmut Lachenmann presenter Helmut Lachenmann String Quartet No.3 ‘Grido’ Nearly four decades separate Lachenmann’s first quartet from his third, each one finds the composer preoccupied with honing his thoughts and processes, striving to define and refine his musical language through this most intimate of mediums. The later two of this mighty triptych were written for today’s performers, the Arditti Quartet. Britten Studio, Snape 9pm (ends approx 9.40pm) Tickets £13 or £20 for both Arditti concerts Under 27s half price Coach £4 (8pm)

Dawn Upshaw soprano An artist with extraordinary natural warmth, Dawn Upshaw is fiercely committed to the transforming communicative power of music. Her Festival masterclasses, jointly led by pianist Kayo Iwama, will explore the overlapping territories of 20thcentury American and French song, from Gershwin and Copland to Fauré and Messiaen. Masterclasses Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape 18, 19, 20, 22, 23 June, 2.30pm–4pm Tickets £5 per session or Pass £20 (all sessions) Recital Britten Studio, Snape 24 June 1pm Tickets £6 The Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme is generously supported by

Monday 18 June 3pm

John Amis: Remembering the Aldeburgh Festival Ben, Peter, Imo and Co John Amis, who celebrates his 90th birthday this week, can claim to be one of the most dedicated attenders of the Aldeburgh Festival, having been to every Festival except two since 1948. In his long life he has worn many hats â&#x20AC;&#x201C; music critic, broadcaster, music administrator and writer, his memories of the early Festivals and association with Britten, Pears, and Imogen Holst are bound to be a fascinating insight into the beginnings of an enduring artistic legacy. Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh 3pm (ends approx 4pm) Tickets ÂŁ9 Under 27s half price

Monday 18 June 7pm

Ensemble Modern Ensemble Modern Helmut Lachenmann reciter Franck Ollu conductor Helmut Lachenmann Accanto (1975/76) ...zwei Gefühle..., Musik mit Leonardo (1992) Mouvement (–vor der Erstarrung) (1983/84) Dynamic new music pioneers with a reputation for scintillating performances of Lachenmann’s music, Ensemble Modern make their Aldeburgh debut. Lachenmann redefines what music is possible from a solo instrument. Given the palette of a large ensemble, the results are breathtaking – alien, exotic sounds, but a palpable, visceral sense of drama amidst fleeting, tantalising allusions to the past. A wildly unconventional variant of a virtuoso concerto for clarinet, Leonardo da Vinci’s florid prose reduced to semantic rubble to construct a sensual fantasy, and a work memorably described by the composer as ‘a music of dead movements, of almost final quivers ... like a beetle floundering helplessly on its back...’

Shattering confrontations with tradition that forge musical new beginnings, fractures of the familiar that create refined, radical music of searing originality. Snape 7pm (ends approx 9pm) Tickets £22, £19, £16, £13, £10 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (6pm) Pre-performance talk Helmut Lachenmann in conversation with Paul Griffiths Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape 5.30pm. Admission free, but please book.

Monday 18 June 10pm

Tuesday 19 June 11am

Alfred Brendel: Poetry & Music With Ensemble Modern

Lachenmann – Complete Piano Music

Music by Kagel

Pianists from Britten–Pears Programme Masterclass

Parallel to his career as a world-class performer, Alfred Brendel has always pursued his other love, poetry.

Helmut Lachenmann The complete piano repertoire (Serynade; Five Variations on a theme by Franz Schubert; Child’s Play: Seven little Pieces; Cradle-Music; Echo Andante; Guero)

Whimsical yet serious, funny but wise, his delightful poems are beautifully wrought fantasies that naturally gravitate toward – and often take aim at – music, musicians, and audiences. Here Brendel reads from his own collection of poems. Kagel’s music, laced with a wholly original blend of humour, theatricality and wit seems a pitch-perfect ally, a caustic companion in a late night collage of cheerful subversiveness. Britten Studio, Snape 10pm (ends approx 11pm) Tickets £10 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (8.50pm)

The ethereal beauty of overtones produced by piano strings, the clicking of fingernails on keys – Lachenmann’s ceaseless quest to uncover these ‘accidental’ noises for use in his music has been likened to scavenging for sonic scrap, yet what wondrous new creations Lachenmann forges from supposedly base metals, perhaps nowhere better shown than in his piano music. The culmination of a Britten–Pears masterclass course on his music led by Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Yukiko Sugawara and the composer himself, this retrospective of his entire output for the instrument shows a prodigious imagination and peerless

technique at work. It reaches a logical culmination in the compelling Serynade, where pounded block chords and brittle clusters alternate with their ghostly resonating overtones, or the capricious miniature Guero, where not a single key is actually depressed. Beyond a modish modernism, this is music that challenges the physical possibilities of an instrument and seems to challenge the very definitions of what constitutes beauty, and even music itself. Britten Studio, Snape 11am (ends approx 12.15pm) Tickets £10 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (10am) The Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme is generously supported by

Tuesday 19 June 3pm

Keller Quartet II Keller Quartet Bartók Quartet No.1 György Kurtág Six Moments musicaux Officium Breve Op.28 Bartók Quartet No.6 The Keller Quartet studied with Kurtág and are outstanding interpreters of his string quartets – brief, enigmatic works of concentrated intensity, each gesture laden with potent, expressive intent. Kurtág referred to Bartók’s music as his ‘mother tongue’ and the latter’s first and last quartets are a revealing framework. The first has a compelling, boisterous swagger about it, whilst the last maps a course from flat calm to turbulent waters, the dark undertow of the finale’s despairing lament a reminder of the year of its composition: 1939. Orford Church 3pm (ends approx 4.55pm) Tickets £18, £15, £10 Under 27s half price Coach £6 (2pm)

Tuesday 19 June 7.30pm

Wednesday 20 June 9.30am

Ian Bostridge

Festival Walk II

Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano

Discovering Churches in and around Thornham Park

Schubert Widerschein D949; Alinde D904; Rastlose Liebe D222; Geheimes D719; Versunken D715; Der Winterabend D938; Die Sterne D939; Die Götter Griechenlands D677 · And songs by Ives

The main attraction of this walk is the charming thatched Norman church at Thornham Parva, whose remarkable 14th-century painted wall panel has recently been restored (the Cluny Museum in Paris owns a panel believed to be its companion piece). While this is not a church ramble as such, we will visit two more delightful churches in the area as we walk through the woods. Lunch will be provided in the attractive Walled Garden in Thornham Walks, part of the Henniker Estate.

Ian Bostridge’s artistry conjures readings of infinite variety from the most familiar of repertoire. Beauty yet flexibility of tone, spontaneity but scrupulous precision and a restless, thoughtful curiosity set him apart as one of the great interpreters of Schubert, effortlessly inhabiting the world of poet and composer. With echoes of other Festival programmes, an all-too rare snapshot of Charles Ives’ vocal music provides an unconventional pairing. As in all Ives’ music, it proves a wildly spinning world of disparate styles and moods where folksy familiarity and the determinedly modernist rub shoulders. Snape 7.30pm (ends approx 9.30pm) Tickets £22, £19, £16, £13, £10 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (6.30pm) Supported by the Richard Cave Trust, established in 1987 by a major donation from Vickers plc

Suitable clothing and footwear recommended. Not a circular walk. Sorry no dogs. Depart Moot Hall, Aldeburgh. Coaches from 9.30am (see ticket for exact timings); return from 4pm Distance approx 6 miles Tickets £22 (inc. lunch and coach) With support from

Wednesday 20 June 7pm

Wednesday 20 June 9.30pm

Two Pianos and Percussion

Before Life and After

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Tamara Stefanovich piano Daniel Ciampolini, Sam Walton percussion Keller Quartet

Dramatised performances with film

Bartók Piano Quintet; Sonata for two pianos and percussion From youthful rarity to late-masterpiece, a portrait of the composer from young man to his last decade. The brilliant sonata is perfect synthesis of Bartók’s style. Subtly and intricately constructed, radically scored, and suffused with vibrant colour from its intoxicating night music to the good-humoured finale it is a work teeming with life. Glimpses of the young composer’s future emerge fleetingly within the late romantic style and broadarched melodic sweep of the attractive, impassioned piano quintet. Snape 7pm (ends approx 8.30pm) Tickets £20, £18, £15, £12, £10 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (6pm)

James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano Netia Jones director/filmmaker Finzi A Young Man’s Exhortation Britten Winter Words Tippett Boyhood’s End Staged in the former Garrett engineering works, and reflecting on the transience of the railway and the life and death of the branch line, Before Life and After is a performance of songs by Britten, Finzi and Tippett about fleeting experience, the loss of innocence, nostalgia, recollection, and mortality. With an accompanying book and walk along the path of the old Aldeburgh to Leiston line, it is a meditation on personal and collective memory, evanescence, and reminiscence. Leiston Long Shop Museum 9.30pm (ends approx 10.45pm) Tickets £18 Under 27s half price Minibus Free, but please book (8.50pm)

Thursday 21 June 11am

Thursday 21 June 3pm

Film Premiere: The Unthanks

Hesse Lecture

In the bleak Midwinter

Richard Sennett

A new BBC film following folk singers, Rachel and Becky Unthank on a journey around England’s hidden customs and dance traditions and into the dark heart of its winter past-times. As the summer light fades and the winter nights encroach, they discover how England’s wintry rituals, borne out of a need to earn money and keep warm, developed into expressions of local identity against political and religious authority.

Good Homes for Art: Spaces that Connect

Even more, the irrepressible urge to ‘not be told what to do’ has created a tension with local authorities that is evident today, giving each custom its strong and distinct local flavour. The Molly dancers of East Anglia who go collecting funds each year are a reminder that no higher power puts food on the plate. Just as these customs rely on the communities themselves to mark each point of the year with a gathering together, the very need to survive lies in the hands of your neighbour. Aldeburgh Cinema 11am (ends approx 12.15pm) Admission free, but please book Film premiere courtesy of BBC Music and the Arts

The performing arts have traditionally depended on buildings that intensely bond artists and the public. As the performing arts have evolved, so the architecture of those spaces has had to change, with architecture often lagging behind art. Making good homes for performance is a particular challenge today, when digital technology provides operas, dance, and music on demand, anywhere and anytime. Though technology seems to suspend the importance of a physical bond between the artist and the public, the bond buildings create has become more important than ever. Sociologist Professor Richard Sennett writes on cities, work and culture and lectures at New York University and the London School of Economics. In addition to publishing works on modern cities and the shifting world of work, he has written three novels. Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh 3pm (ends approx 4.15pm) Tickets £12 Under 27s half price

Thursday 21 June 6pm

Thursday 21 June 9.30pm

Film: Requiem for a Village

Before Life and After

Introduced by writer and director, David Gladwell

Dramatised performances with film

Filmed on location in Suffolk in the mid 70s, the film catches the moment traditional rural life was about to be usurped by a cynical, less innocent age. Working with a local, non-professional cast, Gladwell’s recurring themes of regeneration and decay are wistfully evoked without a conventional narrative. At times shocking, at time meandering, the repeating cycle of life is presented unflinchingly to the viewer. Harking back to the old life on the land, the inevitable domination of suburban sprawl is juxtaposed with almost idealised scenes of country life, whilst remaining ambivalent about both. Gladwell trained as a painter before working as film editor with Lindsay Anderson on If… and O Lucky Man!, his artist’s eye for a pleasing image is much in evidence.

James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano Netia Jones director/filmmaker

A rare opportunity to see this deeply original and visionary film. Leiston Film Theatre 6pm (ends approx 7.30pm) Tickets £6 Please note the film is rated 18 and contains scenes of sexual violence

Finzi A Young Man’s Exhortation Britten Winter Words Tippett Boyhood’s End Second performance. Please see page 39 for details. ‘a time there was... before the birth of consciousness, when all went well.’ Thomas Hardy, Before Life & After

Leiston Long Shop Museum 9.30pm (ends approx 10.45pm) Tickets £18 Under 27s half price Minibus Free, but please book (8.50pm) This performance ‘For Wilk’, remembering John Michael Wilkinson (1941–2010)

Friday 22 June 11am

Friday 22 June 3pm

Piano Colours

Bartók and Britain

Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Norman Perryman artist

Malcolm Gillies speaker

Liszt La Lugubre Gondola II Tristan Murail Cloche d’adieu, et un sourire ... In memoriam Olivier Messiaen Scriabin Sonata No.9 op.68 ‘Black Mass’ George Benjamin Fantasy on Iambic Rhythm Debussy Préludes, Book I and II [excerpts]

Béla Bartók visited Britain many times between the wars. Indeed, the BBC was one of his most loyal early promoters, to the shock of many listeners. Bartók played not just at the big venues in London but visited Scotland, Wales, and many provincial centres in England. Among his more obscure concerts was one of 1923 in Aldeburgh, as part of a series of girls’ school concerts arranged by a London piano teacher.

A fascinating collaboration between artist and musician. Perryman describes his art as ‘kinetic painting’ – painted on glass and projected on to big screens by overhead projectors, his continuously shifting semiabstract expressionist visuals are a synchronised commentary on the evocative imagery of Liszt, Scriabin’s extraordinarily rich harmonic palette, and George Benjamin’s rhythmic transformations. Binding these together and left unadorned are Debussy’s Preludes – songs without words, canvases of the imagination. Britten Studio, Snape 11am (ends approx 12 noon) Tickets £20, £16 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (10am) Post-concert conversation with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Norman Perryman Jerwood Kiln Studio, Snape Admission free

In this fascinating historical exposé, Malcolm Gillies delves into the pictorial, audio and documentary legacy of Bartók’s British exposure, ending with mention of Benjamin Britten, who shared a London programme with Bartók during the summer of 1938. Malcolm Gillies is vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University. A former Hungarian Government Scholar, he wrote Bartók in Britain: A Guided Tour (Oxford, 1989). Aldeburgh Cinema 3pm (ends approx 4pm) Tickets £10 Under 27s half price

Friday 22 June 4.30pm

Bartók in Aldeburgh Tamara Stefanovich piano Scarlatti Three Sonatas Bartók Tema con Variazioni; Old Dance Tunes; Bear Dance; Allegro Barbaro; An Evening in the Country; Three Burlesques; Romanian Peasant Dances; Debussy Pour le piano Bartók Four Dirges; Sonatina; Romanian Dance 4 December 1923. Well before the Aldeburgh Festival was established and high-profile international visitors and performances by a composer-pianist were commonplace, a visit to Britain by Béla Bartók concludes with an afternoon recital at Belstead Hall girls school in Aldeburgh. Though the school (on Park Road) no longer exists, the school hall became the hall next to the parish church, and Tamara Stefanovich reproduces Bartók’s own programme in its entirety, dominated by his own music, but intriguingly set against Debussy’s graceful poise and the sparkling clarity of Scarlatti.

At a school where folksong collector Cecil Sharp was a regular visitor and folk songs and dances were apparently sung every day after prayers, the inclusion of music sourcing dance tunes and melodies from Romania and Hungary seems apt. Aldeburgh Parish Church Hall 4.30pm (ends approx 5.45pm) Tickets £16 Under 27s half price This performance is supported by the Bernarr Rainbow Trust Second performance on Saturday 23 June. Hesse Students Concert Music students have been assisting with running Aldeburgh Festival concerts in return for free tickets for over half a century. This is the second of their popular end-of-week Hesse Students Concerts, which have become a permanent fixture in the Festival schedule. Pumphouse, Aldeburgh 5pm (ends approx 6pm) Tickets £3

Friday 22 June 7pm

Friday 22 June 10pm

Keller Quartet III

Before Life and After

Keller Quartet

Dramatised performances with film

Bartók Quartet No.2; Quartet No.5 Ligeti Quartet No.2

James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano Netia Jones director/filmmaker

Hovering over Bartók in this Festival, Kurtág and Ligeti are an illuminating presence. Ligeti’s quartet, like Bartók, veers between ferocious energy and eloquent serenity, from rhythmic panache to mysterious, otherworldly clouds of texture and harmony. Authoritative, energizing and alive to every shift and subtlety of this extraordinary music, the Keller Quartet end their Bartók cycle with the fifth quartet, perhaps a summation of Bartók’s style – imitation and ingenuity, an alluring synthesis of tradition and innovation.

Finzi A Young Man’s Exhortation Britten Winter Words Tippett Boyhood’s End

Snape 7pm (ends approx 8.45pm) Tickets £20, £18, £15, £12, £10 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (6pm)

Third performance. Please see page 39 for details. ‘And the children, who ramble through here, Conceive that there never has been A time when no tall trees grew here A time when none will be seen. Thomas Hardy, At Day Close in November

Leiston Long Shop Museum 10pm (ends approx 11.15pm) Tickets £18 Under 27s half price Minibus Free, but please book (9.20pm)

PUMPHOUSE

Saturday 23 June 11am

EXAUDI: A John Cage Musicircus EXAUDI · James Weeks director Bill Thompson sound artist with students from the University of East Anglia A promenade performance, to include Cage Song Books ‘musIcircus/maNy/Things going on/at thE same time/a theatRe of differences together/not a single Plan/just a spacE of time/aNd/as many pEople as are willing/performing in The same place…’ The Hoffmann Building could have been built for John Cage’s vision of a ‘Musicircus’, an anarchic harmony of different musics all brought under one big top and blending together into a joyous sonic mess. To celebrate the centenary of 20th-century music’s greatest iconoclast, a plethora of Festival artists and others fling open the doors and let the sound stream out. As the centre-piece of this promenade event, EXAUDI teams up with sound artist Bill Thompson and students from UEA to present its critically-acclaimed version of Cage’s seminal Song Books (1970).

Hoffmann Building, Snape 11am (ends approx 1pm) Tickets £10 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (10am) With support from Anthony Mackintosh Developed during a Faster Than Sound:LAB project Faster Than Sound:LAB receives generous support from

Faster Than Sound is generously supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation EXAUDI will be appearing at the Pumphouse – find out more about the Pumphouse programme on aldeburgh.co.uk

Saturday 23 June 3pm

Saturday 23 June 5.30pm

Britten–Pears Young Artists II: Emerging Composers

Bartók in Aldeburgh

Britten–Pears Ensemble · Gregory Charette conductor

Scarlatti Three Sonatas Bartók Tema con Variazioni; Old Dance Tunes; Bear Dance; Allegro Barbaro; An Evening in the Country; Three Burlesques; Romanian Peasant Dances; Debussy Pour le piano Bartók Four Dirges; Sonatina; Romanian Dance

Michael Gandolfi Design School Schoenberg Three Pieces for Chamber Orchestra Lutoslawski Chain 1 Plus premieres of new works by Edmund Finnis, Elizabeth Ogonek, Matthew Kaner, Ilad Rabinovitch, Elizabeth Winters, Arne Gieshoff and Eric Nathan A list of alumni from Oliver Knussen and Colin Matthews’ biennial contemporary composition and performance course reads like a Who’s Who of the finest young composers over the past 20 years and has inspired countless collaborations. This concert is an enticing showcase of work produced on the 2011 course, for which the tutorial team was joined by American composer, Michael Gandolfi. Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh 3pm (ends approx 4.40pm) Tickets £10 Under 27s half price Supported by Alan & Judi Britten The Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme is generously supported by

Tamara Stefanovich piano

Second performance. Please see page 44 for details. ‘Tamara Stefanovich shone in both works; she is a pianist who can not only play Boulez and Messiaen fiendishly well, but also a brilliant Mozart: light, cantabile, spiritual – everything in perfect balance’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Aldeburgh Parish Church Hall 5.30pm (ends approx 6.45pm) Tickets £16 Under 27s half price

Saturday 23 June 8pm

Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI Hesperion XXI Jordi Savall director ‘Mare nostrum’ A concert with music from Christian, Muslim and Jewish traditions around the Mediterranean Jordi Savall is both master musician and multiculturalist, unearthing treasures from all over the ancient world for his own instrument, the viola da gamba, and for the increasingly eclectic line-up of his pan European early music ensemble Hesperion XXI. The group’s multinational heritage and their combined skills as performers, improvisers and multi-instrumentalists bring a vitality and joyous air of celebration to such scholarly research.

Here they mingle music from the Mediterranean fringes from Spain in the west to Turkey and the Middle East bringing their usual charismatic fluidity, elegance and grace in performance to a deeply ingrained understanding of musical styles and cultures. Musical archaeology has never sounded so alive. ‘After its 200 years of relative silence he has made the viola da gamba sing again … but what really mark him out are his wanderings beyond the temple of high culture.’ The Guardian ‘A sentimental vision of global unity acquired heartbreaking force’ Alex Ross Snape 8pm (ends approx 9.30pm) Tickets £20, £18, £15, £12, £10 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (7pm)

Sunday 24 June 12 noon

Sunday 24 June 4pm

Open Air

Universe Symphony

Five Rings Triples

Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra Musicians from Britten–Pears Orchestra, Aldeburgh Young Musicians James Sinclair conductor

Special peals of church bells have long since been associated with public festivities, national occasions and important news. Composer Howard Skempton’s new work, a PRSF 20 x 12 commission for the London Games, captures this moment of national and local celebration at the opening weekend of the Cultural Olympiad and the culmination of Aldeburgh’s festivities. Aldeburgh 12 noon Free, no ticket required Supported by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers in partnership with Third Ear Modern British Sculpture Sculptor, Laurence Edwards talks about casting in bronze, using the site’s works by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Sarah Lucas as examples. Meet in the Outer Foyer of the Concert Hall at 3pm. Tickets £5

Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Ives Universe Symphony (European premiere) Never completed, written for a myriad of ensembles surrounding a huge and unconventional orchestra and only subsequently performed as fantasies or fragments, the Universe Symphony has achieved almost mythical status. Leading Ives interpreter and scholar James Sinclair conducts the European premiere of the complete work as Ives left it almost 100 years ago, using every corner of Snape Maltings, its airy acoustics and unique idyllic natural surrounds as a single vast performance space. Snape Maltings 4pm (ends approx 5pm) Tickets £15 Under 27s half price Coach £4 (3pm) Generously supported by the Haskel Family Charities With additional support from a small syndicate of individuals

Saturday 9 – Sunday 24 June

SNAP: Art at the Aldeburgh Festival Artists include May Cornet, Matthew Darbyshire and Scott King, Ryan Gander, Antony Gormley, Maggi Hambling, Mark Limbrick and Emily Richardson Influential artists in last year’s inaugural SNAP exhibition, Sarah Lucas and Abigail Lane have pulled together another equally impressive roster of artists with East Anglian connections.

Various locations, Snape Midday until start of the evening concert. Please visit www.aldeburgh.co.uk for more details SNAP – A Discussion Legendary curator Norman Rosenthal, former head of exhibitions at the Royal Academy, chairs a discussion with a panel including some of the artists. Britten Studio, Snape 11 June, 11am Tickets £5 (free to students and Under-27s)

Works will be installed all over the site at Snape – on lawns and in disused buildings – with audiences given a map to navigate the trail. ‘The Young British Artists have grown up, headed for the fields and found fresh inspiration’ The Observer ‘What SNAP [2011] seems to show is a generation that is still powerfully inventive and self-confident, using their well-honed skill to adapt work that was born in the cities to a different environment. What’s new, perhaps, is a quietness and thoughtfulness ... Almost – can one say this? – a maturity.’ Financial Times

Matthew Darbyshire: Palac, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, UK, 2009

Saturday 9 – Sunday 24 June

Hepworth and Moore Happisburgh 1929 and the Development of Modern British Sculpture

Casting in bronze Sculptor, Laurence Edwards talks about casting in bronze, on Sunday 10, 17 and 24 June. Meet in the Outer Foyer of the Concert Hall; the talk will be around the site and last 30 mins. Tickets £5

During the summers of 1929 and 1930, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson rented a farmhouse outside Happisburgh on the coast of northeast Norfolk. They explored the surrounding landscape, boating on the broads, bathing in the North Sea, picnicking and playing cricket on the beach. At the end of the holiday they took stones back to their studios in London, and there began a unique sculptural journey of experimentation with found materials. Orford-based curator Hugh Pilkington presents a photographic record of Moore’s and Hepworth’s sculptural work from 1928–38 together with Nicholson’s photographs taken during his stay, and examples of the found flints, ironstones and clay with which they experimented and that so influenced their work. Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh 10am–5pm daily For a film about Henry Moore on 15 June, please see page 23 for details.

Hepworth and Moore, Tate Archive

Eating at Snape Now firmly established as our exclusive caterers, Metfield at Aldeburgh Music will once again be providing an excellent choice of dining options for the Aldeburgh Festival. • A delicious range of hot food and puddings in the informal Oyster Bar • A cold food counter stocked with a variety of salads, seafood and smoked fish • A fully stocked bar with proper coffee • Traditional waiter-service in the top floor Restaurant, open before and after all evening Festival performances in the Concert Hall. Please pre-book your table through the Box Office on 01728 687110.

The Oyster Bar is open two hours before concerts, and again afterwards when hot and cold food will be available. The Metfield Bakery is owned and run by Stuart Oetzmann, a chef who trained under the Roux Brothers, Sally Clarke and Anthony Worrall Thompson. Aldeburgh Music is delighted to have Stuart and his team as our exclusive caterers, with their flair and passion for local food. For Festival performances in the Britten Studio, the Hoffmann Building is equipped with a fully stocked bar, and will serve some snacks. The bar will open one hour before performances. For a more substantial meal pre-Britten Studio events see page 62 for other options. For all catering bookings and enquiries please contact the Box Office on 01728 687110. We regret that picnics are not allowed anywhere on the site.

Sample Festival Restaurant Menu – £28.50 per head for three courses • Starters Twice Baked Haddock Soufflé, Tomato fondant; Chilled Tomato and Basil Consommé, Mozzarella Crostini; Pan-fried Foie Gras, Pickled Pears, Brioche Toast • Main Courses Baked Crab, Gremolata Potatoes, Summer Vegetable Salsa; Roast Rump of Lamb, Warm Nicoise Salad; Broad Bean and Petit Pois Risotto, Roasted Asparagus, Fresh Parmesan, White Truffle Oil • Puddings Lemon Tart, Lime and Vodka Sorbet; Strawberry and Champagne Jelly, White Chocolate Mousse; Rhubarb Crème Brulee, Ginger Ice Cream and Brandy Snap

Booking details Priority booking for Annual Donors until Monday 13 February, Friends from Tuesday 14 February, and ABL from Tuesday 28 February. You can now use priority online booking. Alternatively, send back your completed form as soon as possible after receiving it. Forms are processed in order of receipt, according to membership level. Please return forms to: Aldeburgh Music Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP or email: boxoffice@aldeburgh.co.uk

Box Office opening hours: Aldeburgh High Street Mon–Sat 9.30am–4.30pm Snape Maltings Concert Hall Mon–Sat 9.30am–4.30pm During the Festival 9.30am–start of evening concert or 5.30pm if there is no evening concert at Snape. Reservations Unpaid reservations are held for three working days after which they are released for sale. Tickets booked within three days of a performance must be purchased at the time of booking.

Discounts/Tickets

General Booking opens on Tuesday 6 March Our improved online booking now offers seat selection – visit www.aldeburgh.co.uk

All discounts are made subject to availability and at the discretion of the Box Office Manager. Please note only one discount applies.

Phone and In Person booking opens on Tuesday 6 March Tel: 01728 687110

Group Discounts 10% discount available for groups of 12 or more.

Wheelchair Users A concession of 50% is available to companions of wheelchair users. Concessions Available seats will be sold at half price to the registered unemployed and students in full-time education, two days prior to each concert. Please bring proof of eligibility on collection of tickets. Returned Tickets We are happy to re-sell returned tickets for sold-out concerts. A 10% handling charge will be deducted from your refund. Returned tickets will be on sale from Tuesday 22 May. On the same day, we also make 6 tickets available for all Concert Hall, Britten Studio and weekend events. Please call the Box Office on 01728 687110 to enquire after availability. Please note this offer is limited to two tickets and 4 events per household.

For sold out performances at all venues, returned tickets will usually become available. It is always worth arriving early at the venue or contacting the Box Office. Ticket Exchange We may be able to exchange tickets within the same concert season. A charge of 50p per ticket will be made for this service. Church Seating Only top-price seats are numbered. All other areas are unreserved.

Snape Maltings Concert Hall Britten Studio, Hoffmann Building

The Concert Hall and the Hoffmann Building with the Britten Studio and Jerwood Kiln Studio have space for wheelchairs, lift access to all levels, and operate an infra-red hearing system which can be used with or without a hearing aid.

Parking for people with disabilities at Snape Spaces are provided for blue/ orange badge holders and must be booked in advance. Should you require one please inform the Box Office when booking. Please arrive early to secure your parking space.

Aldeburgh Yacht Club Leiston Long Shop Museum Leiston Film Theatre Aldeburgh Parish Church Hall Please contact the Box Office if you require wheelchair access. Pumphouse, Aldeburgh

Aldeburgh Cinema

Access Please inform the Box Office if you have access requirements so that they may advise you on the most appropriate seats.

Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape

Aldeburgh Parish Church

Blythburgh Church 路 Orford Church

Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh

There is no dedicated parking for blue/orange badge holders at these venues and car parking is not always adjacent to the venues. Please allow sufficient time.

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Friends and Advance Booking List Aldeburgh Music runs a yearround programme of events. To keep up-to-date you can become a Friend or join the Advance Booking List which will entitle you to a number of benefits including receiving all our mailings. For further information, please phone 01728 687100 or email enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk Support our work Aldeburgh Music relies on the generosity of numerous individuals, businesses, trusts and foundations to carry out its ambitious artistic programme. If you would like to be involved either individually as an Annual Donor or through your business or a trust, please contact Julia Ransome on 01728 687100 or email jransome@aldeburgh.co.uk. Hesse Student Scheme In return for tickets to one week of Festival events and B&B

accommodation, Hesse students help with the day-to-day running of the Festival. If you are a student and interested in music please contact Jane Alexander on 01728 687100 or email jalexander@aldeburgh.co.uk for further details. Visitor Centre Our visitor and information centre adjacent to the Concert Hall Foyer is now open, selling recordings of music and artists in the season, new releases and bestsellers. There also is a range of books and gift ideas. Tel: 01728 687139 (Festival only) Aldeburgh Alumni Club Our alumni have been getting back in touch with us from all over the world. See what friends and colleagues are up to and visit us on www.aldeburgh.co.uk. Please contact us on alumni@aldeburgh.co.uk if you have any submissions or would like further information.

How to find us By Car Signposted from the A12, take the A1094 off the A12, turn right at Snape Church for Snape Maltings. Parking at Snape Free parking is available at Snape Maltings Concert Hall. Please arrive early to allow time for parking, or consider coming by special coach. By Train National Express East Anglia operate a service from London–Saxmundham via Ipswich. Tel: 0845 600 7245. We recommend you book a taxi from Saxmundham prior to making the journey; contact A2B cars on 01728 832202 or www.A2Btaxi.net By Bus There are bus services from both Aldeburgh and Woodbridge to Snape with a bus stop outside the Maltings. Tel: 0871 200 2233.

Festival Coaches Festival coaches are available for all concerts held outside Aldeburgh. Coaches depart from the Aldeburgh High Street Box Office, calling at Fort Green car park, the cinema and Uplands. Tickets cost £4 return to Snape and Thorpeness, £6 to Orford and £7 to Blythburgh. Seats can be booked at the same time as booking your tickets. Please check departure times on tickets as these may vary.

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Where to stay B&B and Self-catering At Snape Maltings Stunning two bedroom apartments with a private terrace, looking onto the courtyard, available for rental throughout the year. Part of the new courtyard residential development. Private carparking. Tel: 01728 688303 www.snapemaltings.co.uk An amble to Snape Maltings Flemings Lodge, recommended in Which? Good B&B Guide. Tel: 01728 688502 edwards815@btinternet.com A short walk to The Maltings Where Benjamin Britten lived and wrote Peter Grimes. The Old Mill, Snape. Tel: 01728 687906 www.oldmillsnape.co.uk info@oldmillsnape.co.uk

Albion House, Snape. Welcoming B&B, a short stroll from Snape Maltings. Tel/Fax: 01728 687612 www.albionhouse-bandb.co.uk

Snape Summerhouse. B&B or self-catering, 5 mins walk from Snape Maltings, pets welcome. Tel: 01728 688750

Snape Cottages Rural, beautiful and high quality. Sleep 2–14. Short breaks & dogs welcome. Tel: 07802 878172 www.snapecottages.co.uk

Aldeburgh Luxury B&B Quiet but close to the High Street and sea. Tel: 01728 453271

Snape B&B. 2 double rooms (one ensuite) and 1 single. Off-street parking. Short walk to Maltings. Tel: 01728 688862

Aldeburgh, Sleeps 6. Wellequipped house at top of Town Steps. Pretty garden, sea views. Tel: 01787 222535

Snape Andante B&B. 3 rooms. Rehearsal room. Tel: 01728 689173 quartethelen@aol.com www.andantebandbsnape.co.uk Snape High-quality period cottage, sleeps 2–4, short breaks, dogs welcome. Tel: 01728 688144 www.click4cottages.co.uk Snape The Garden Room B&B. Comfortable, stylish and peaceful. Short walk to Maltings. Tel: 01728 688686 www.thegardenroomsnape.co.uk

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Aldeburgh, Beech House B&B. Near beach, town centre. Tel: 01728 452597 beechhousealdeburgh@gmail.com

www.beechhousealdeburgh.co.uk Aldeburgh delightful ground floor garden apartment for two. Parking. Tel: 07887 655886 courtyardflat@gmail.com

Aldeburgh B&B, in former convent. Large rooms, seaviews. Tel: 01728 453859 M: 07792 629859 www.aldeburgh-bed-and-breakfast.com

A delightful period cottage. Luxury B&B. Walking distance Snape Maltings. Tel: 01728 689003 M: 07740422065 maggiescorer@yahoo.co.uk The Anchor, Walberswick – Currently 400 yards from the beach. We provide simple B&B accommodation in 6 spacious garden rooms (some newly refurbished) and two rooms upstairs, all en-suite. Fresh seasonal food and beer and wine matching. We have a private dining room, ideal for functions and individual menus. Food and drink events available. Tel: 01502 722112 www.anchoratwalberswick.com

Ashanwell B&B, Orford. En-suite accomodation, off-road parking. Tel: 01394 450882 katharina_willan@hotmail.com Benhall Suffolk Cottages, two luxury self-catering properties. Minsmere cottage with hot-tub. Tel: 07919 357515 www.suffolk-cottages.net Benhall Green, Gr.II 17C thatched cottage, sleeps 5–7, woodburner/ rayburn etc, gardens, 10 mins Maltings, 4 mins station. Tel: 01728 604169 wendymulfordb@keme.co.uk Country House B&B. Idyllic Grade II house in Alde Valley. Beautiful rooms, delicious breakfasts. Tel: 01728 663445 smarshall@aldevalleybreaks.co.uk www.aldevalleybreaks.co.uk Friston 1 Mosses Cottage, sleeps 3. Comfortable cottage with open fire, garden. Pets allowed. Tel: 0207 820 0740 www.fristonholidaycottage.co.uk

Friston Modernised period cottage between Snape and Aldeburgh. Large garden, ensuite, sauna. Tel: 01603 506595 barbara.hyde1@btopenworld.com The Golden Key Historic village pub offering 3 beautifully appointed en-suite rooms. Short walk from Snape Maltings located in Snape village. Tel: 01728 688510 www.snapegoldenkey.co.uk Iken B&B – delightful position, 2 miles from Snape. Tel: 01728 688801 www.thedriftiken.co.uk The Old Rectory, Campsea Ashe. A beautiful Georgian rectory set in acres of tranquil gardens. So much more than a B&B, with dinner and afternoon teas. Seven delightful en-suite bedrooms. Snape only 3 miles. Tel: 01728 746524 www.theoldrectorysuffolk.com

Sudbourne B&B Ground floor Double/Twin en-suite, garden room. Own entrance Tel: 01394 450468 gbedd@btinternet.com Thorpeness Newly refurbished, well equipped cottage. Short stroll to village, shop, pub, beach, Meare. Sleeps 6+. Tel: 01473 625875 www.thorpenessholidaycottage.com

Tunstall Romany Studio. 2 miles from Snape, Art Gallery and B&B! Tel: 01728 688264 www.romanystudio.co.uk Ufford Luxuriously furnished 1 bed 16thC cottage. Open fire. Tel: 01473 411700 hopecttg@gmail.com www.hopecottagesuffolk.co.uk

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Best of Suffolk Over 100 stylish holiday cottages in the seaside town of Aldeburgh and surrounding beautiful countryside. Tel: 01728 638962 www.bestofsuffolk.co.uk

The Brudenell Hotel, Situated in an idyllic seaside setting, just a pebbleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s throw from Aldeburghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shingle beach, the privately-owned Brudenell typifies all of the elements of a luxury four star seaside hotel. Refurbrished in 2010, the hotel has 44 bedrooms, many with beautiful sea and country views. Enjoy fabulous food served in the sea-facing AA two rosette restaurant or al fresco on the beachfront terrace. Tel: 01728 452071 info@brudenellhotel.co.uk www.brudenellhotel.co.uk

Suffolk Cottage Holidays Aldeburgh, Snape and throughout Suffolk. Self-cater in style. Tel: 01394 389189 Tel: 01728 454724 www.suffolkcottageholidays.com www.bighouseholidays.co.uk Heritage Hideaways High quality holiday cottages on the Heritage Coast. VisitBritain inspected. Tel: 01502 578278 www.heritagehideaways.com SUFFOLK Secrets Over 280 selfcatering properties across the county, all of them VisitEngland approved. Tel: 01502 722717 holidays@suffolk-secrets.co.uk www.suffolk-secrets.co.uk

The Bell Hotel, Saxmundham. A beautiful 10 bed boutique hotel. Fine dining, lite bites and events. Tel: 01728 602331 www.bellhotel-saxmundham.co.uk Best Western Ufford Park Hotel located in 120 acres of historic parkland close to Woodbridge and less than 10 miles from Snape. Restaurant, Luxury Spa and Championship Golf Course. Tel: 0844 4776473 (local rate) enquiries@uffordpark.co.uk www.uffordpark.co.uk

The Crown and Castle, Orford. 10 mins drive from the concert hall at Snape. 19 en-suite bedrooms offer either distant sea views or semi-private garden terraces. The highly-rated Trinity bistro offers pre-concert dinners (local fish/shellfish a speciality). Tel: 01394 450205 www.crownandcastle.co.uk Seckford Hall, Woodbridge. Highlycommended 16th-century country house hotel and restaurant. Indoor heated swimming pool, beauty salon and 18-hole golf. Early/late suppers. Tel: 01394 385678 reception@seckford.co.uk www.seckford.co.uk

Thorpeness Hotel A short drive from Aldeburgh and overlooking the Meare and golf course, Thorpeness Hotel has 36 en-suite bedrooms. The restaurant and bar are open daily to non-residents for morning coffee, light lunches, afternoon tea and dinner. Sunday roasts a speciality. 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 bedroomed self-catering properties are also available for short breaks throughout the year. Tel: 01728 452176 info@thorpeness.co.uk www.thorpeness.co.uk The Wentworth Hotel A country house hotel overlooking the sea. 35 bedrooms many with sea views. Elegant and comfortable lounges with open fires, antique furniture and paintings. Sunken terrace garden in which morning coffee, bar lunches and afternoon teas are served. Restaurant awarded 2 AA Rosettes. Private car parking. Tel: 01728 452312 stay@wentworth-aldeburgh.co.uk www.wentworth-aldeburgh.com

White Lion Hotel is a newly refurbished beachfront hotel which prides itself on its relaxed and informal atmosphere, where the emphasis is on comfort, fantastic food and outstanding hospitality. Seasonally-inspired menus are served in the vibrant setting of the Bar & Brasserie, with produce sourced from the land and sea close to Aldeburgh. Open for morning coffee, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. Tel: 01728 452720 info@whitelion.co.uk www.whitelion.co.uk

Where to eat Plough & Sail, Snape Maltings. Only 100 yards from the concert hall and serving the finest in local produce, you can trust our experienced team to get you to the concert on time. Pre- and postconcert dining available all year. Tel: 01728 688413 www.debeninns.co.uk The Golden Key Beautiful historic pub with low beams and plenty of character located in Snape village. We offer real ale, a large selection of wine by the glass and homecooked food using seasonal & local ingredients. Pre-concert bookings taken from 5.30pm. Post also available. Tel: 01728 688510 www.snapegoldenkey.co.uk Lady Florence River Cruise Restaurant. Cruises from Orford, morning brunch, a la carte lunch and dinner. Vouchers available. M: 07831 698298 info@lady-florence.co.uk www.lady-florence.co.uk

The Lighthouse, 77 High Street, Aldeburgh. Sara Fox & Peter Hill. Morning coffee, lunchtime and evening restaurant open 7 days. Good Food Guide, Harden’s, Bib Gourmand in Michelin. Tel: 01728 453377 www.lighthouserestaurant.co.uk 152 Aldeburgh, High Street, Aldeburgh. Morning coffee, lunch and dinner 7 days a week. Pre and post-concert suppers. Recommended in Good Food Guide. Tel: 01728 454594 White Horse, Rendham, freehouse, from A12 take B1119 towards Framlingham. A traditional village pub serving real ales and real food. Evening meals from 6.30pm. Tel: 01728 663497 www.whitehorserendham.co.uk

What else to do Snape Maltings is a unique collection of home and kitchenware shops, galleries, book shop, Samphire clothing & accessories, Little Rascals children’s shop, food hall, tea shop, café and public house, which fill the Victorian Malthouses. Enjoy the monthly farmers markets, river trips and RSPB guided walks along the Alde Estuary. Open daily from 10am; free car park. Tel: 01728 688303 www.snapemaltings.co.uk Antique & Collectors Centre, Snape Maltings, 10am–5pm daily. 40 dealers offering an eclectic range for all pockets & interests. Tel: 01728 688038

Aldeburgh Music Club Choir Enjoy Singing? Come and join us on Tuesdays at 7.30pm at Aldeburgh Community Centre - no audition required. Next concert at Orford Church, Thursday 10 May. Two world premieres to celebrate 60-years of music making. Tel: 01728 602217 The Gainsborough String Quartet can add something special to your wedding or party. Tel: 07768986014 gainsboroughquartet@gmail.com Good Neighbours Scheme. There are more than 20 volunteer-run schemes in Suffolk who assist people with errands, shopping, befriending and transport. In the Aldeburgh area call Agnes on 07773 031064 or Aldringhamcum-Thorpe 07521 047843. For more information about setting up a scheme: Tel: 01473 345300 communitysupport@suffolkacre.org

Lady Florence River Cruise Restaurant. Cruises from Orford, morning brunch, a la carte lunch and dinner. Vouchers available. M: 07831 698298 info@lady-florence.co.uk www.lady-florence.co.uk Long Shop Museum, Main Street, Leiston. Open from 1st April to end of October. Home of the Garrett collection. Agricultural, Industrial and Social History. www.longshopmuseum.co.uk O&C Butcher Ladieswear, Menswear, Footwear. 129â&#x20AC;&#x201C;131 High St Aldeburgh. Wide range of quality town and country clothing available in store or online. Tel: 01728 452229 www.ocbutcher.co.uk Slaughden Wines, 142 High Street, Aldeburgh. Fine wine retail outlet of Richard Kihl Ltd. Tel: 01728 454455 www.richardkihl.ltd.uk

The Southwold Concert Series offers creative and bold programmes, combining the traditional with more progressive repertoire, and young artists feature prominently. Concerts are in St Edmunds Church, a 15thcentury building in Southwold. Tickets ÂŁ12. Tel: 01502 726161 lucy.aldous@springagency.co.uk Aldeburgh Music will be helping to co-ordinate audience car sharing. If you would like to be put in touch with other audience members from your area please contact us. Tel: 01728 687100 www.aldeburgh.co.uk

Other exhibitions Aldeburgh Gallery 143 High Street, Aldeburgh 8–13 June, 10am-5pm daily. ‘At Home & Abroad’. Work in various media by artists including Keith Grant, Mark Hearld, Ed Kluz, Emily Sutton, Jonathan Gibbs, Colin Wilkin and Alex Malcolmson. Also in the rear room A Collector’s Exhibition showing other 20th & 21st century artists. Tel: 01728 452772 Snape Maltings Gallery Snape Maltings, Snape 2 June – 6 July, daily from 10am. Sally Anne Fitter. Strong composition and imaginative colours are a hallmark of Norfolk-based Sally Anne’s still lives. We are delighted to have her exhibition at the Snape Maltings Gallery running during the Festival. Tel: 01728 688303

Tunstall Romany Studio Woodbridge Road, Tunstall 8–24 June, 10am–5.30pm (except Monday & Tuesday) Royal West of England Academicians Show. Paintings, wood engravings and watercolours. Tel: 01728 688264

Feetham Gallery Exhibition Hill Lodge, Church Walk, Aldeburgh 9–18 June & 21–24 June Paintings, ceramics & sculpture. Tel: 07775 785004

The South Lookout Aldeburgh Beach, Aldeburgh June 2012 presents Live at The Lookout, a visual art installation. Tel: 01728 452754 caroline@carolinewiseman.com

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Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery High Street, Aldeburgh 8–14 June, 10.30am-5pm daily. The Piers Feetham Gallery presents Laetitia Yhap: a retrospective. 15–23 June, 2pm–5pm (15 June) 10am–5pm daily thereafter. Julia Gooch presents Art in East Anglia. Tel: 01728 452996

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Acknowledgements Aldeburgh Music gratefully acknowledges generous revenue and capital support from:

Aldeburgh Music works in close association with the Brittenâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Pears Foundation and gratefully acknowledges its substantial financial support for the Brittenâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Pears Young Artist Programme, as well as a very substantial contribution towards the purchase of the lease of Snape Maltings Concert Hall.

Aldeburgh Music is a registered charity No: 261383 and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales No. 980281 Aldeburgh Festival is a registered trademark ÂŽ The right is reserved to substitute artists and vary the advertised programme if necessary. All information is correct at time of going to press. Graphic design: Silk Pearce Printed by: Fuller-Davies on paper awarded FSC certification

We also thank the many other trusts and foundations, individuals, businesses and other private organizations that support our work. Aldeburgh Music Snape Maltings Concert Hall Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP Admin Tel: 01728 687100 Box Office Tel: 01728 687110 Fax: 01728 687120 enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk www.aldeburgh.co.uk

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FRIDAY 8 JUNE Wild Things 7.30pm SATURDAY 9 JUNE Miklós Perényi I 11am SNAP Open Day 1pm Sea Change 3pm Gabriela Montero 5pm Scottish Chamber Orchestra 8pm

SUNDAY 10 JUNE Festival Service 10.30am Open Air 12.30pm Wild Things 2.30pm Sculpture Talk 6.30pm Knussen in Conversation 6.30pm Peter Serkin 8pm MONDAY 11 JUNE SNAP – A Discussion 11am Miklós Perényi II 3pm Goerne & Aimard 8pm TUESDAY 12 JUNE Films: Bartók Double Bill 11am Miklós Perényi III 3pm Collegium Vocale Gent 7.30pm * WEDNESDAY 13 JUNE Festival Walk I 9.30am Menahem Pressler 7.30pm

FRIDAY 15 JUNE Britten–Pears Young Artists I 11am Film: Henry Moore 3pm Hesse Students Concert 5pm Dezsö Ránki 7.30pm

SATURDAY 16 JUNE Alfred Brendel 11am Keller Quartet I 3pm Monteverdi Choir & Gardiner 7.30pm SUNDAY 17 JUNE Open Air 12 noon Sculpture Talk 2pm Arditti Quartet I 3pm CBSO & Knussen 6pm Arditti Quartet II 9pm MONDAY 18 JUNE John Amis 3pm Lachenmann in Conversation 5.30pm Ensemble Modern 7pm * Brendel: Poetry & Music 10pm

TUESDAY 19 JUNE Lachenmann 11am Keller Quartet II 3pm Ian Bostridge 7.30pm

WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE Festival Walk II 9.30am Two Pianos and Percussion 7pm Before Life and After 9.30pm THURSDAY 21 JUNE Film Premiere: The Unthanks 11am Hesse Lecture 3pm Film: Requiem for a Village 6pm Before Life and After 9.30pm FRIDAY 22 JUNE Piano Colours 11am Bartók and Britain 3pm Bartók in Aldeburgh 4.30pm Hesse Students Concert 5pm Keller Quartet III 7pm Before Life and After 10pm

SATURDAY 23 JUNE EXAUDI 11am Britten–Pears Young Artists II 3pm Bartók in Aldeburgh 5.30pm Festival Masterclasses: PierreLaurent Aimard Open Session 6pm Jordi Savall & Hesperion XXI 8pm SUNDAY 24 JUNE Open Air 12 noon Festival Masterclasses: Dawn Upshaw Recital 1pm Sculpture Talk 3pm Universe Symphony 4pm

Aldeburgh Music Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP Box Office 01728 687110 boxoffice@aldeburgh.co.uk www.aldeburgh.co.uk

THURSDAY 14 JUNE Britten Films: An Exploration 2pm Festival Masterclasses: Menahem Pressler Recital 5pm Britten Films 8pm

* Pre-performance talk / event