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SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2010
Faster Than Sound - Brainwaves
An evening of new works inspired by Brainwaves with composers Mira Calix, Anna Meredith & Mathias Gmachl and an installation by Loop.pH.
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Saturday 25 September 2010 - Friday 1 October 2010
thirty-oneA new installation by composer Stuart Stevens, commissioned by Aldeburgh Music
Information Although this event is free, an admission charge of £5 applies during the Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival
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Friday 1 October 2010
Gwyneth Herbert - An exploration of the seaGwyneth Herbert is a mesmerizing performer, a writer of striking original songs and a versatile musical adventurer.
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Friday 8 October 2010
Open Session: The Rare TheatricallA fresh take on 17th-century music theatre
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Saturday 9 October 2010
Tansy Davies - NeonA 21st-century original described as ‘between Xenakis and Prince’, Tansy Davies writes vibrant, streetwise music that often seems to straddle the worlds of concert hall and dance floor.
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Friday 15 October 2010 - Sunday 17 October 2010
Britten Weekend - Britten and Bridge‘A tribute with affection and admiration’ reads the dedication on the score of Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge.
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Friday 15 October 2010
Britten Weekend - Guy JohnstonMusic inspired by musicians, brought by Aldeburgh regular Guy Johnston, praised for his ‘passion and intensity’ (The Strad), together with one of England’s finest young pianists, Leon McCawley.
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Saturday 16 October 2010
Britten Weekend - Aldeburgh StringsA brand new ensemble making their debut, Aldeburgh Strings are the very best of recent Britten–Pears Orchestra alumni (now performing with the Hallé and Staatskapelle Dresden amongst others).
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BOX OFFICE
Snape Maltings Concert Hall Visitor Centre and Aldeburgh High Street
Mon-Sat 10am-4pm
Tel. 01728 687110
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EXHIBITIONS
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BEHIND THE SCENES
2-10 September
Strauss and Wolf Lieder
Lieder pianist Roger Vignoles explores the interpretation of masterpieces by two of the greatest song composers with singers and pianists from the Britten–Pears Programme. Vocal consultant Penny Mackay assists with input from Lieder specialist Susan Youens.
13-22 September
International Academy of String Quartets
Aldeburgh's world-renowned annual programme for developing young quartets kicks off with masterclasses by Isabel Charisius. She is joined this year by violinist Ilan Gronich, former member of the Israeli and kreuzberger Quartets
4-8 October
The Rare Theatricall
This young London-based vocal and instrumental ensemble specialises in the music of Henry Purcell and his contemporaries. The Rare Theatricall will spend a week in residence semi-staging a 17th century English play with theatre director Tom Morris
11-16 October
Britten Weekend - Guy Johnston
Guy Johnston explores Britten music for cello including an unpublished work with piano and 2nd Suite
1-4 December
Revenge of the Folksingers
Scottish based baroque/folk fusion group Concal explore British song repertoire from both sides of the English-Scottish border with singers including Martin Carthy and Glasgow legend Michael Marra. The intention is to stage a “good-humoured revenge” of the traditional artists for what some might see as the gentrification of their culture in the folk song arrangements of Britten and Pears