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At last, Bruckner conducting is no longer a specialism confined to a few Austro-German artists devoted to overcoming resistance to the composer’s greatness.

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20 Jun 2024

BBC SSO triumphs in Bruckner and Unsuk Chin

Von Roy Westbrook

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Gerhardt and Osborne honour Britten and Rostropovich with sublime Aldeburgh recital

Von Christopher Woodley, 14 Juni 2024

Alban Gerhardt and Steven Osborne offered a vivid and memorable reprise of Ben and Slava's iconic recital of 1961.

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14 Jun 2024

Gerhardt and Osborne honour Britten with sublime Aldeburgh recital

Von Christopher Woodley

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At the Aldeburgh Festival, Nicholas Daniel plays the Pied Piper of Cool

Von Christopher Woodley, 13 Juni 2024

For the Aldeburgh Festival's 75th anniversary celebrations, Daniel delivered a great performance of Vaughan Williams's Oboe Concerto, in the company of Gustav and Imogen Holst.

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13 Jun 2024

At Aldeburgh Festival, Nicholas Daniel plays the Pied Piper of Cool

Von Christopher Woodley

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English Touring Opera put Rossini’s La Cenerentola in a museum

Von Mark Valencia, 28 Oktober 2023

Rossini's take on the Cinderella story is bright, buoyant, witty, well sung, if ending on a sour directorial note.

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28 Okt 2023

English Touring Opera put Rossini's Cenerentola in a museum

Von Mark Valencia

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Vivid Monteverdi: The Coronation of Poppea from English Touring Opera

Von Mark Valencia, 27 Oktober 2023

Harmonious images and geometric designs frame an effective staging and well sung performance of Monteverdi's last opera.

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27 Okt 2023

Vivid Monteverdi: The Coronation of Poppea from ETO

Von Mark Valencia

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Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Gavin Bryars’ 80th birthday bash in Snape

Von Mark Valencia, 13 August 2023

The venerable composer celebrates his 80 years with an intense and moving performance by six loyal musicians drawn from his family and friends, with himself on double bass.

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13 Aug 2023

Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Gavin Bryars at 80

Von Mark Valencia

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Full English: Sinfonia of London provides sustenance at Snape

Von Roy Westbrook, 18 Juni 2023

Elgar's Second Symphony crowns an all -English programme by John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London at the Aldeburgh Festival.

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18 Jun 2023

Full English: Sinfonia of London provides sustenance at Snape

Von Roy Westbrook

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Sally Beamish song cycle lights up Sinfonia of London's Aldeburgh Festival debut

Von Roy Westbrook, 17 Juni 2023

A programme of orchestral showpieces are given the John Wilson treatment, although Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances disappoints.

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17 Jun 2023

Sally Beamish lights up Sinfonia of London's Aldeburgh Festival debut

Von Roy Westbrook

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Thorvaldsdottir UK premiere in ambitious Aldeburgh Festival concert

Von Rose Dodd, 16 Juni 2023

Hannu Lintu conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in an epic symphonic programme at Snape Maltings.

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16 Jun 2023

Thorvaldsdottir UK premiere in ambitious Aldeburgh Festival concert

Von Rose Dodd

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Adrenalin-fuelled Bartók from the Doric String Quartet at the Aldeburgh Festival

Von Mark Valencia, 10 Juni 2022

The Doric String Quartet plays all six of Béla Bartók's quartets in one day at this year's Aldeburgh Festival.

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10 Jun 2022

Adrenalin-fuelled Bartók from the Doric String Quartet at Snape

Von Mark Valencia

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John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London excel in English works for strings

Von Mark Valencia, 21 November 2021

Two dozen heroes played one of the house composer’s most intense and technically demanding scores with bravura skill and a collegiate musicality that stirred the spirit.

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21 Nov 2021

Sinfonia of London excels in English works for strings

Von Mark Valencia

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Dazzling virtuosity from Wilson, Kolesnikov and the Sinfonia of London in Snape

Von Mark Valencia, 20 November 2021

A rare outing for Britten's Piano Concerto in the opening concert of the Britten Weekend in Suffolk.

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20 Nov 2021

Dazzling virtuosity from Wilson, Kolesnikov and the Sinfonia of London

Von Mark Valencia

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Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: why it's not always wise to see double

Von Stephen Pritchard, 19 November 2020

Sometimes streaming a concert unadorned with context or contrast is not enough.

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19 Nov 2020

The OAE: why it's not wise to always see double

Von Stephen Pritchard

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Impassioned musicianship at Snape's “Britten and Russia” weekend

Von Mark Valencia, 19 Oktober 2019

Britten's Cello Symphony and a no-holds-barred account of Shostakovich’s mighty Tenth Symphony at Snape Maltings

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19 Okt 2019

Impassioned musicianship at Snape's “Britten and Russia” weekend

Von Mark Valencia

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Scintillating Britten from the Doric String Quartet at Snape Maltings

Von Mark Valencia, 20 Oktober 2018

Six concerts of Suffolk’s finest home-grown produce garnished with side orders of Mozart, Copland and Elgar.

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20 Okt 2018

Scintillating Britten at Snape Maltings

Von Mark Valencia

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Pastel-perfect hell: To See The Invisible at the Aldeburgh Festival

Von Charlotte Valori, 08 Juni 2018

Emily Howard's new opera, an Aldeburgh Festival commission, takes an ambitiously modernist approach to a dystopian story of loneliness: a tough, but thought-provoking work.

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08 Jun 2018

Pastel-perfect hell: To See The Invisible

Von Charlotte Valori

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Handel's Theodora: Christian Curnyn conducts the Britten-Pears Young Artists at Snape

Von Mark Valencia, 31 März 2018

Irene’s "Bane of virtue" was the first moment at which a singer’s performance met the measure of the work.

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31 Mär 2018

Handel's Theodora at Snape

Von Mark Valencia

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Present for the future: a hansel at Snape Maltings

Von Charlotte Valori, 15 März 2018

Julius Drake, Krzysztof Chorzelski and Mark Padmore contributed their notable gifts of piano, viola and voice respectively in a very special, often heartfelt fundraising evening for two music education charities.

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15 Mär 2018

A hansel at Snape Maltings

Von Charlotte Valori

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Opera North sails in to the Aldeburgh Festival with a buoyant revival of Billy Budd

Von Mark Valencia, 24 Juni 2017

At the opera’s great climaxes Suffolk’s famous wood-and-brick building could barely contain it.

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24 Jun 2017

A buoyant revival of Billy Budd

Von Mark Valencia

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Myth illustrated with music: Purcell's King Arthur at the Aldeburgh Festival

Von Charlotte Valori, 22 Juni 2017

A joyous, consummately skilful account from Vox Luminis breathed delightful life into Purcell and Dryden's unusual semi-opera at Snape Maltings.

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22 Jun 2017

Myth illustrated with music: King Arthur

Von Charlotte Valori

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Belcea Quartet excels in Britten and Shostakovich at Aldeburgh Festival

Von Mark Pullinger, 11 Juni 2017

Britten and Shostakovich were great friends, so it was appropriate that both composers were represented in the Belcea Quartet's two recitals on the opening weekend of the 70th Aldeburgh Festival.

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11 Jun 2017

Belcea Quartet excels in Britten and Shostakovich

Von Mark Pullinger

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A silvery Dream lost among the shadows: Britten at the Aldeburgh Festival

Von Mark Pullinger, 11 Juni 2017

Netia Jones' new production taps into Britten's silvery underworld in a staging dominated by video wizardry which is hypnotically beautiful, but comes at a price.

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11 Jun 2017

A silvery Dream lost among the shadows

Von Mark Pullinger

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Boy Donne good: Toby Spence in Tippett and Britten III, Aldeburgh Festival

Von Charlotte Valori, 20 Juni 2016

Spence sounds confident in an evening of Tippett and Britten at Snape, culminating in a spinetingling account of John Donne's Holy Sonnet X.

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20 Jun 2016

Boy Donne good: Toby Spence at Snape Maltings

Von Charlotte Valori

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Music more than words: Britten and Tippett at the Aldeburgh Festival

Von Charlotte Valori, 16 Juni 2016

Ian Bostridge's exploration of Britten and Tippett song cycles is overshadowed by a fantastic string quartet in a mixed programme at Aldeburgh.

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16 Jun 2016

Music more than words: Britten and Tippett at Snape

Von Charlotte Valori

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Starting as you mean to go on: Britten's Les Illuminations at Aldeburgh Festival

Von Charlotte Valori, 10 Juni 2016

An evening of exceptional originality and daring in Snape Maltings – not to mention glorious music – got the Aldeburgh Festival off to a striking start for the 2016 season.

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10 Jun 2016

Britten's Les Illuminations at Aldeburgh Festival

Von Charlotte Valori

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Desire, deception, and death: Birtwistle's The Corridor and The Cure opens the Aldeburgh Festival

Von Charlotte Valori, 14 Juni 2015

Two short works by Harrison Birtwistle put forward interesting views of classical themes: the psychologically involved The Corridor and a dynamic new vision of Medea, The Cure.

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14 Jun 2015

Desire, deception, and death: The Corridor & The Cure

Von Charlotte Valori

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Powerful minimalism: Owen Wingrave launches Aldeburgh Festival

Von Nathan Waring, 15 Juni 2014

In a world that sees racial hatred and resulting violence across the world, Aldeburgh's stylish production re-establishes the meaning of Owen Wingrave for a new generation, performed by the new generation.

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15 Jun 2014

Powerful minimalism: Owen Wingrave

Von Nathan Waring