The seventy fifth Aldeburgh Competition opens on 7 June and runs till 23 June 2024. The pageant options stagings of Judith Weir‘s Blond Eckbert and Britten’s Curlew River, and the pageant’s featured musicians are composers Judith Weir and Unsuk Chin, violinist Daniel Pioro and cellist Alban Gerhardt.
Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert is being staged as a co-production between Britten Pears Arts and English Touring Opera, and the work is directed by Robin Norton-Hale, carried out by Gerry Cornelius with a solid that features Simon Wallfisch and Aoife Miskelly. Ryan Wigglesworth will conduct the Knussen Chamber Orchestra within the premiere of Weir’s The Planet and Wigglesworth additionally conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Weir’s Forest. Soprano Claire Sales space performs Weir’s solo opera, King Harald’s Saga while the BBC Singers carry out Blue Remembered Hill. The Leonkoro Quartet premiere Weir’s second string quartet, The Spaniard, and there are performances of extra of Weir’s music from pianists Stephen Osborne and Rolf Hind, Trio Boheme, the Nash Ensemble, Aldeburgh Voices and Tenebrae.
Pianists Joseph Havlat and Rolf Hind might be sharing efficiency of Unsuk Chin’s full Preludes, while Tenebrae premiere Chin’s new 40-part motet to go together with Tallis’ Spem in Alium for efficiency in Ely Cathedral. The Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, conductor Roderick Cox, premiere Chin’s Alaraph.
Cellist Alban Gerhardt might be performing Unsuk Chin’s Cello Concerto, a piece written for him, with Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Gerhardt can be the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He joins forces with soprano Claire Sales space and pianist Joseph Havlat for Thomas Larcher‘s My sickness is the drugs I want, primarily based on extracts from interviews with sufferers of mental-health amenities, and Splinters. Then Gerhardt and pianist Steven Osborne recreate the June 1961 recital by Britten and Rostropovich which noticed the world premiere of Britten’s Cello Sonata, together with basic works by Schubert, Schumann and Debussy. Gerhardt might be pairing Bach and Britten with their solo cello suites.
Violinist Daniel Pioro joins pianist Simon Smith for Brahms’ three Violin Sonatas, and he joins with the Marian Consort for a programme of music for nightfall together with Tom Coult, Arvo Pärt and John Tavener. Pioro may also convey a deep-listening factor, impressed by Pauline Oliveros, to a pageant stroll, and the violinist can be inviting folks to drop in to his follow session on the Purple Home. And Pioro is the soloist in Britten Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth.
There might be a brand new staging of Britten’s church parable Curlew River, 60 years after its first efficiency, directed by Claire van Kampen with music director Audrey Hyland and tenor Ian Bostridge, baritone Peter Braithwaite, bass-baritone Sir Willard White and singers and alumni from the Britten Pears Younger Artists programme. Alongside this might be a uncommon likelihood to expertise Sumidagawa (“Sumida River”), one of the famend Noh performs, which impressed Britten’s church parable Curlew River. Different Britten on the pageant consists of suites from The Prince of the Pagodas and Dying in Venice, St Nicholas (as a part of a live performance recreating the pageant’s opening live performance from 1948).
The complete pageant brochure is accessible right here [PDF]. Full particulars from the pageant web site.
