The Aldeburgh Festival is now on in venues in and around Suffolk. Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Guy Johnston and the Piatti Quartet all feature in this year’s festival:
TAMSIN WALEY-COHEN
This Saturday (20th June), Tamsin premieres her sister Freya Waley-Cohen’s violin concerto ‘The Dreamer’ with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under conductor Kevin John Edusei.
brittenpearsarts.org/events/bbc-national-orchestra-of-wales-ii-tamsin-waley-cohen
The concert will be broadcast at 7.30pm on BBC Radio 3 on Tuesday 23rd June:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xnd2
GUY JOHNSTON
Guy features in three concerts as part of this year’s festival:
21 June – 11am – Schubert’s String Quintet with Magnus Johnston and Irène Duval (violins), Brett Dean (viola) and Laura van der Heijden cello
brittenpearsarts.org/events/last-impressions-britten-and-schubert (sold out)
21 June – 7.30pm – Solo Cello Suites by Bach and Britten
brittenpearsarts.org/events/guy-johnston-cello-suites
27 June – 11am – Kurtag’s Signs, Games and Messages (for solo cello) and Brahms’ Cello Sonata No.1 performed with pianist Martin Helmchen
brittenpearsarts.org/events/vilde-frang-and-friends
PIATTI QUARTET
27 June – 3pm – The Piatti Quartet perform Faure’s La Bonne Chanson with tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Julius Drake. The concert is being recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3:
brittenpearsarts.org/events/la-bonne-chanson
📸 – Neda Navaee, Frances Marshall, Venetia Jollands