Page 178 - Aldeburgh Festival 2022 FINAL COVERAGE BOOK

Colin’s Column

24 June 2022
Aldeburgh Festival 2022. June 24 is

Oliver Knussen Day.

Oliver Knussen (1952-2018)
https://brittenpearsarts.org/whats-on/category/aldeburgh-festival
“Three concerts celebrating composer and conductor Oliver Knussen.*

“We present three concerts over the course of a day celebrating the great composer and
conductor Oliver Knussen, a figure at the heart of the Aldeburgh Festival for many decades,
in the month that would have seen his 70th birthday. In addition to Knussen’s music, the
programmes feature music by composers who were particularly close to him, including
special musical tributes for solo cello by his close composer friends and colleagues.
“All the performers have connections to Knussen as a composer and conductor, and the
three concerts together form an introduction to his world and an upbeat to the evening’s
BBC Symphony Orchestra concert.”

The first public performance (and the second) of Oliver Knussen’s Cleveland Pictures,
conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth, is live on BBC Radio 3 tonight from 7
o’clock, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00188wm (not sure why R3 has a photo of
Dalia Stasevska).