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Aldeburgh Festival 2013: Judith Weir, Sally Beamish, Charlotte Bray, Anna Meredith, Thea Musgrave, Jonathan Harvey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

Extract

In Benjamin Britten's centenary year, the music of its founding father featured widely at the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival. However, there was also a strong showing of music by contemporary composers, including six new pieces for different ensembles co-commissioned by the Britten–Pears Foundation and the Royal Philharmonic Society to mark the bicentenary of the foundation of the RPS, as well as Britten's hundredth anniversary.

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First Performances
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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References

1 In an engaging pre-performance talk in the Peter Pears Recital Room.

2 The other two pieces are Cirrus Light, for solo clarinet, and The Annunciation, for the choir of St John's College, Cambridge.