Aldeburgh Festival 2019: Week 2
Second Week
Heath Quartet
Saturday 15 June
Oliver Heath violin
Sara Wolstenholme violin
Gary Pomeroy viola
Chris Murray cello
Thomas Larcher Madhares
Benjamin Britten String Quartet No.1 in D, Op.25
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in E minor, Op.59 No.2
Elizabeth Kenny
Saturday 15 June
Elizabeth Kenny theorbo
Alessandro Piccinini Toccata Cromatica; Partiti variate sopra la Folia; Ciaconna
Hieronymus Kapsberger Toccata; Passacaglia; Capona; Canario; Coloscione
James MacMillan Motet
Benjamin Oliver Extending from the Inside (2014) 8’
Robert de Visée Suite in C minor; Chaconne
Nico Muhly Berceuse with seven variations (2018, UK premiere)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Saturday 15 June
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Mark Padmore tenor
Karina Canellakis conductor
Richard Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Benjamin Britten Our Hunting Fathers, Op.8
Thomas Larcher Red and Green
Igor Stravinsky Suite, The Firebird
Bastard Assignments
Saturday 15 June
Bastard Assignments
Timothy Cape
Edward Henderson
Caitlin Rowley
Josh Spear
Edward Henderson Flower
Josh Spear FEED
Prep (group piece for prepared brass & viola)
Caitlin Rowley Quiet Songs
Timothy Cape SUGAR CAGE
Masterclass Recital: Opera Arias
Sunday 16 June
The culmination of the masterclass series with Antonio Pappano, Pamela Bullock and Julia Faulkner.
Britten and Bridge
Marta Fontanals-Simmons mezzo-soprano
Adrian Brendel cello
Joanna MacGregor piano
Benjamin Britten Sonata for Cello and Piano in C, Op. 65
Imogen Holst The Fall of The Leaf for solo cello
Jonathan Harvey Songs and Haiku for voice and piano (UK premiere); Curve with Plateau for solo cello
Britten (arr.) Folk Songs for voice and piano
Frank Bridge Sonata for Cello and Piano
Vox Luminis II
Sunday 16 June
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier director
Benjamin Britten Hymn to St Cecilia, Op.27
George Frederic Handel Dixit Dominus
Handel Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76
Satie Songs and Piano
Monday 17 June
Barbara Hannigan soprano
Reinbert de Leeuw piano
Erik Satie Ogives; Trois mélodies; Trois autres mélodies; Gnossiennes; Socrate
Aldeburgh Voices
Monday 17 June
Aldeburgh Voices
Jesse Flowers guitar
Ben Parry conductor
Thea Musgrave Four Madrigals
Michael Tippett The Weeping Babe; Two Madrigals
Benjamin Britten Nocturnal, after John Dowland, Op.70
Roxanna Panufnik O hearken thou
Judith Weir Love Bade Me Welcome
Ben Parry Spring Sonnets
Tippett The Blue Guitar; Five Negro Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
Schubert 1828
Monday 17 June
Chamber Choir of London
Trio Isimsiz
Quatuor Diotima
Fleur Barron mezzo-soprano
Mark Padmore tenor
Roderick Williams baritone
Richard Watkins horn
Roger Vignoles piano
Music by Franz Schubert
Quatuor Diotima
Tuesday 18 June
Yun-Peng Zhao violin
Constance Ronzatti violin
Franck Chevalier viola
Pierre Morlet cello
Karl Szymanowski String Quartet No.2
Thomas Larcher String Quartet No.4 ‘Lucid Dreams’
Franz Schubert String Quartet in G, D.887
Poetry and Music: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
Tuesday 18 June
Roderick Williams baritone
Andrew West piano
Patience Agbabi poet
Introduced by Kate Kennedy
Benjamin Britten Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, Op.74
Vox Luminis III
Tuesday 18 June
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier director
Coronation of Mary of Modena, 1685
John Blow God Spake sometimes in visions
Henry Purcell My heart is inditing
Ode to James II, Oct 1687
Purcell Sound the trumpet, beat the drum, Z.335; Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z.49
Funeral of Mary II, 1695
James Paisible The Queen’s Farewell
Thomas Tollett The Queen’s Farewell
Purcell The Queen’s Funeral March, Z.860
Thomas Morley The first dirge Anthem; The second dirge Anthem
Purcell Thou knowest, Lord, Z.58b; Canzona,
Morley The third dirge Anthem
Purcell Funeral Sentences
Elegy on the Death of Mary II
Purcell O dive custos, Z.504
Alisa Weilerstein
Wednesday 19 June
Alisa Weilerstein cello
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite No.1 in G, BWV1007
Suite No.3 in C, BWV1009
Suite No.5 in C minor, BWV1011
Suite No.6 in D, BWV1012
Film: Songs of Experience - Michael Tippett at 85
Thursday 20 June
Introduced by Oliver Soden
Ardeo Quartet
Thursday 20 June
Carole Petitdemange violin
Mi-sa Yang violin
Yuko Hara viola
Joëlle Martinez cello
Toru Takemitsu A way a lone
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in A, K.464
Thomas Larcher IXXU
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op.135
Igor Stravinsky music
Words by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman
Barbara Hannigan conductor
Linus Fellbom director, design, lighting
Ludwig Orchestra
Chorus of Opera Holland Park
Dominic Ellis-Peckham chorus master
Edo Frenkel assistant conductor / harpsichord
Equilibrium Young Artists
Aphrodite Patoulidou Anne Trulove
Yannis Francois Nick Shadow
Elgan Llyr Thomas Tom Rakewell
Fleur Barron Baba the Turk
Antoin Herrera-Lopez Kessel Father Trulove / Keeper of Madhouse / Mother Goose
James Way Sellem
The final weekend
BPYAP Alumni III
Friday 21 June
Charlotte Bowden soprano
Hugo Herman-Wilson baritone
Marina Sánchez Cabello cello
Eric Thomas theorbo
Chad Vindin harpsichord
Henry Lawes A dialogue on a kiss
Songs by Henry Purcell
Karim Said
Friday 21 June
Piano works by William Byrd, Anton Webern, Thomas Tomkins, Arnold Schoenberg, John Bull and Alban Berg presented in fascinating sequences alternating and segueing seamlessly between the 16th and 20th century.
Hannigan and Ludwig Orchestra I
Friday 21 June
Ludwig Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan conductor / soprano
Alisa Weilerstein cello
Steven Schick conductor
Johann Sebastian Bach Suite No.2 in D minor, BWV1008
Arnold Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht
Gérard Grisey Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil
Bach Suite No.4 in E flat, BWV1010
Masterclass Recital: Singing Britten
Saturday 22 June
The culmination of the masterclass series with Mark Padmore, James Bailieu and Julia Faulkner.
Poetry and Music: Winter Words
Saturday 22 June
Mark Padmore tenor
Andrew West piano
Fiona Sampson poet
Introduced by Kate Kennedy
Benjamin Britten Winter Words, Op.52
Nicholas Daniel and Friends
Saturday 22 June
Britten Oboe Quartet
Nicholas Daniel oboe, cor anglais
Jacqueline Shave violin
Clare Finnimore viola
Caroline Dearnley cello
Adam Walker flute
Oliver Knussen Fire
Benjamin Britten Phantasy Quartet, Op.2
Claude Debussy Syrinx
Knussen Cantata
Robert Schumann arr. Colin Matthews Mondnacht
Knussen Masks for solo flute
Matthews Oboe Quartet No.2
Joanna Lee Among the Unlimitless Etha (commission for the Aldeburgh Festival, world premiere)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Oboe Quartet in F, K.370
Hannigan and Ludwig Orchestra II
Saturday 22 June
Ludwig Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan soprano / conductor
Kate Howden mezzo-soprano
James Way tenor
Antoin Herrera-Lopez Kessel bass
Igor Stravinsky Pulcinella
Joseph Haydn Symphony No.49 ‘La Passione’ Hob.I:49
George Gershwin arr. Bill Elliott/Barbara Hannigan Suite from Girl Crazy
Hannigan, Sitwell and Façade
Sunday 23 June
Members of Ludwig Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan reciter
Samuel Boden tenor
Martin Owen horn
Andrew West piano
Introduced by Fiona Sampson poet
Benjamin Britten Canticle III: Still falls the rain: The raids 1940. Night and dawn, Op.55
William Walton Façade
CBSO
Sunday 23 June
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Alisa Weilerstein cello
Stephen Hough piano
Edward Gardner conductor
Michael Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4 in G, Op.58
Thomas Larcher Ouroboros for cello and orchestra
Béla Bartók Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, Op.19