Britten's Les Illuminations at Aldeburgh Festival

Von Charlotte Valori, 13 Juni 2016

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Britten, Young Apollo

Debussy, Streichquartett g-Moll, Op. 10 (Arr. Tognetti)

Adams, Shaker Loops (Shaking and Trembling)

Britten, Reveille

Britten, Les Illuminations, für Sopran oder Tenor und Streicher, Op.18

Sarah Tynan, Sopran

Aurora Orchestra

Nicholas Collon, Musikalische Leitung

Struan Leslie, Regie

Gary McCann, Bühnenbild

Chris Davey, Licht

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Jens Klier, 29th March

Altstaedt, Bostridge und das Aurora Orchestra nehmen den Brexit zum Anlass für ein nachdenkliches, starkes Konzert-Statement.

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Grotesk-Gruber und Klassiker vom Aurora Orchestra in Köln

Jens Klier, 9th September

Die Musiker beeindrucken wieder einmal mit ihrer Lebendigkeit und Interaktion, auch wenn ihre Frankenstein-Version ein wenig zu sehr in Klamauk ausartet.

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Pastorale in Köln: Nicholas Collon und das Aurora Orchestra

Jens Klier, 1st October

Collon und das Aurora Orchestra lieferten ein farbenreiches Programm mit Sinn und Elan, das wunschgemäß glücklich machte.

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Echoes of Youth from the Aurora principals at Kings Place

Mark Valencia, 19th March

Billed under the heading ‘Echoes of Youth’, this Kings Place programme is an attractive ragbag of unlikely bedfellows.

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Brett Dean and Lotte Betts-Dean unlock musical memories at Kings Place

Eleanor Knight, 17th January

Father and daughter team of Brett Dean and Lotte Betts-Dean join forces for the opening concert of Kings Place’s ‘Memory Unwrapped’ season.

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Aurora dazzle in Edinburgh International Festival debut

Simon Thompson, 18th August

Aurora Orchestra turn Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony inside out to exhilarating effect in a dazzling performance in their Scottish debut. Abel Selaocoe’s Four Spirits, on the other hand, has surface shine but not much substance.

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Charlotte Valori

Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.

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