Early 1979
Programme leaflet providing the programme of performances, exhibitions, services, and events for the Thirty-second Aldeburgh Festival. Performances of works by Britten included:
Curlew River, Lachrymae Op. 87, The Burning Fiery Furnace, Sonata in C Op.65, Canticle II Abraham and Isaac Op. 51, Nocturne Op. 60, Young Apollo for piano and String orchestra (first UK performance), The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, Introduction and Rondo alla Burlesca Op. 23 No. 1, Mazurka Elegiaca Op. 23 No. 2, his works (unspecified in leaflet) featured in a concert to celebrate the centenary of E.M. Forster.
Peter Pears appeared in performances:
With the Graf-Schidlof-Ellis Trio, in Eugene Onegin, directed and narrated the Oxford University Press publisher’s choice concert, in the Britten and Bridge concert, and in the E.M Forster centenary celebration. The festival included the first performances of: J. Bach ‘Eisteddfod’ (first UK performance), Holloway ‘La figlia che piange’, William Alwyn ‘Song Cycle: A Leave-taking’, Daniel Welcher ‘Settings of poems by Neruda’, Walton ‘Façade II’ (first complete performance), Bridge ‘Allegro moderato for strings’, Britten ‘Young Apollo for piano and string orchestra’ (First UK performance), Alun Hoddinott ‘Hymnus ante somnum’.
Other performances included Cambridge University Music Society performing Handel’s Israel in Egypt, a concert of Mime and Music, performances of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, early music for voices, Alice (a comic opera by Matthew Best), written for and performed by King’s College Cambridge Music society, and a chamber opera ‘the Martyrdom of St Magnus’ by Peter Maxwell Davies.
Notification of future events such as a Festival Fair, the Summer Concert programme, details of refreshments and the Hesse fund, as well as the locations for the exhibitions, an advertisement for the Thirteenth Annual Snape Antiques fair, details about the Britten Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies at Snape Maltings, and how to get membership for the Aldeburgh festival Association. In the folder there is also a booking form and a sheet containing the footnotes to the festival programme.
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