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Celebrating its 60th anniversary, the renowned Nash Ensemble returns to the Festival with classical delights from Mozart and Beethoven, songs by Julian Anderson, and Judith Weir’s folkloric piano quartet.
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings
The Red House will be marking Peter Pears’ life and career on his birthday, an occasion that has always coincided with the Festival.
The Red House, Aldeburgh
Dr Nicholas Clark discusses the life and work of Peter Pears, co-founder of the Aldeburgh Festival and one of its most celebrated artistic figures.
Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape Maltings
A blazing pair of orchestral showpieces: Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, which finds triumph beyond tragedy, and the first UK performance of Unsuk Chin’s Alaraph, inspired by “heartbeat stars” and the traditional music of Korea.
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
A splendidly captured film of ENO’s acclaimed 2014 staging of Britten’s last opera, directed by Deborah Warner and conducted by Edward Gardner.
Aldeburgh Cinema
A Festival favourite through the decades, Schubert’s extraordinary Winterreise is presented on this special occasion by two consummate artists.
This year’s Hesse Lecture, ‘History, Nature and the Age of Global Revolutions’, is given by Professor Peter Frankopan, acclaimed as “the first great historian of the 21st century”.
The finale to the 75th Aldeburgh Festival: Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in Britten’s Death in Venice Suite and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.
