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Colin’s Column

18 December 2023
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• Britten Pears Arts presents the 75th Aldeburgh Festival in June 2024
• New production of Judith Weir’s opera Blond Eckbert opens the Aldeburgh
Festival

• Featured musicians are composers Judith Weir and Unsuk Chin; violinist Daniel
Pioro and cellist Alban Gerhardt

• New staging of Britten’s Curlew River 60 years after its first performance
• Gweneth Ann Rand performs three major Messiaen song cycles

• Orchestras include the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra, The Hallé, Britten Sinfonia and the Knussen Chamber

Orchestra
• Ensembles include BBC Singers, Ensemble Diderot, The Marian Consort, Nash
Ensemble, Tenebrae and Vox Luminis