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As the festival season returns in 2022, after two years of uncertainty and
cancellations due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BBC Radio 3 celebrates live music with
broadcasts from:

Hay Festival

In a series of four BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts (broadcast from Tuesday 21 to
Friday 24 June), New Generation Artists past and present, among others, present
works including music by Dvořák, Maria Theresia von Paradis, Amanda Maier,
Mahler; Shulamit Ran, and Britten.

The series features performances by Aleksey Semenenko (violin) with Sam
Haywood (piano); Mithras Piano Trio with Gary Pomeroy (viola); and soprano Ruby
Hughes with Huw Watkins (piano), who perform four UK broadcast premieres of
music by Leokadiya Aleksandrovna Kashperova.

A special episode Free Thinking at Hay: The Sea (Tuesday 31 May) explores the
ideas of sea and ocean in a panel discussion hosted by Rana Mitter, with guests
Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose books have drawn on his
birthplace Zanzibar and the refugees arriving at the Kent coast; climate scientist
Professor Emily Shuckburgh, who worked at the British Antarctic Survey; and Joan
Passey, author of Cornish Gothic, a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by
BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Aldeburgh Festival

Six Radio 3 In Concert programmes across 10 days on June (Tuesday 14 to Friday
24 June) present highlights of the 73rd edition of the Aldeburgh Festival, at Snape
Maltings Concert Hall in Suffolk.

These include live broadcasts of performances by: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
and Martyn Brabbins, joined by cellist Laura van der Heijden for Walton’s Cello
Concerto, and by baritone Roderick Williams and mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-
Simmons for Britten’s A Time There Was, with BBC Symphony Orchestra presenting
music by Knussen and Mussorgsky.

Further concerts include City of Birmingham Concert Orchestra with Mirga
Gražinytė-Tyla and violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja in Shostakovich’s Violin
Concerto No.2; and New Generation Artists Timothy Ridout (viola), Alexander
Gadjiev (piano), Ema Nikolovska (mezzo-soprano), Kunal Lahiry (piano), and the
Quatuor Arod giving three morning concerts at the Britten Studio, recorded for future
broadcast on Radio 3.

In Tune Special is live from Aldeburgh (Friday 17 June) and New Music Show
broadcasts the premiere of Tom Coult’s new opera Violet (Saturday 18 June) as
captured at the Festival.

Cheltenham Festival