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Hoad’s Taking Your Leave.

Violin superstar Nicola Benedetti (also a featured artist this year, and the recently announced new
director of the Edinburgh International Festival) will perform a couple of violin suites: one by Bach, the
other by Wynton Marsalis. Therefore, Bach’s sublime second partita will be heard in contrast to
Wynton Marsalis’ suite (written for Benedetti) which takes inspiration from Bach but also from
Scottish, Irish and American folk dances. Benedetti will also be joined by Japanese violinist, Yume
Fujise, for a selection of duos by Bartók while this acclaimed Hungarian composer will be highlighted
in three concerts by the Doric String Quartet who’ll play all his six quartets over the course of one day:
Friday, 10th June, starting at 3pm. Benedetti will also join up with the Kaleidoscope Chamber
Collective to perform a series of ‘night pieces’ by composers including Dowland, Schubert, Britten,
Florence Price and Cole Porter culminating in Schoenberg's beautiful early masterpiece, Transfigured
Night. A busy girl, Benedetti will also close the festival on Sunday 26th June playing concertos by
Vivaldi and Geminiani with her Baroque Orchestra making their festival début.

If Shakespeare’s ‘Wooden O’ couldn’t hold the vast fields of France neither can this feature do full
justice to the plethora of excellent concerts at this year’s Aldeburgh Festival. Therefore, for a full blow-
by-blow account of what’s on, where and when, check out the festival’s comprehensive website
at www.brittenpearsarts.org

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