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Quietly Fascinated by Freya Last3: Quietly Fascinated: Host Freya Last interviews artist Arabella SimArtist Arabella Sim is an artist who is classically trained as a painter and draughtsman and studied at Central St Martins. She works with text, performance and sound but her work revolves around the human condition. Exploring our connection to the land and the perpetual cycle of life and death. Freya discovered her exhibition on a weekend in Aldeburgh, Suffolk when she went for a walk on the beach.
They chat about her exhibition at the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout Tower in July 2023 and how it came to pass, how she witnessed a merman right before the show and...2025-01-271h 06
Open CountryAnneka Rice and Maggi Hambling in SuffolkUnlikely as it sounds Anneka Rice has long been part of a small painting group run by the extraordinary artist, Maggi Hambling. Over the years they've developed a strong bond. As Maggi puts it, the painting group is 'like family' to her. In this special episode of Open Country, Anneka travels to Suffolk to find out more about the county that has inspired Maggi's work: from her brooding seascapes, to the once controversial but now lauded Scallop on Aldeburgh beach. They start the day in a dank, dark, tree-covered ditch where Maggi hid as a teenager when...2024-06-1324 min
Add to PlaylistEmma Rawicz and Gavin Higgins take us from Aldeburgh to Bicycle TownSaxophonist, composer and bandleader Emma Rawicz, and composer Gavin Higgins, join Anna Phoebe and Jeffrey Boakye as they add the next five tracks.From a Muddy Waters masterpiece, they take us to Aldeburgh for Benjamin Britten's tragic tale, before jumping on their bicycles and heading to Copenhagen for an audacious saxophone composition.The five tracks in this week's playlist:Mannish Boy by Muddy Waters
The Passacaglia from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten
Bicycle Town, Pt 1 by Marius Neset
Egyptian Reggae by Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers
Bad Reputation by Joan Jett and...2024-06-0742 min
Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast178: Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert at Aldeburgh FestivalJon Jacob speaks to ETO General Director Robin Norton-Hale and members of the cast and production team about the English Touring Opera production of Blond Eckbert that opens the 75th Aldeburgh Festival on 7th June 2024.2024-06-0325 min
Acercándonos a escuchar CDLA Sede Puerto MonttImogen Clara HolstUn 12 de abril de 1907 nacía la compositora, arreglista y directora de orquesta británica Imogen Clara Holst.
Imogen se educó en St Paul's Girls' School, donde su padre, Gustav Holst, era director musical. Trabajó con Herbert Howells antes de ingresar al Royal College of Music en 1926 para estudiar composición con George Dyson y Gordon Jacob, armonía y contrapunto con Ralph Vaughan Williams y dirección con William H. Reed. Obtuvo varios premios de composición, incluido el premio Cobbett por un cuarteto de cuerda Phantasy y una beca de viaje al dejar la universidad en el verano de 1930...2024-04-1808 min
The Aldeburgh Festival PodcastBonus episode: The music of LigetiThe Ligeti Quartet has curated Ligeti Day in this year’s Aldeburgh Festival to mark the centenary of the great composer’s birth.
Highlights include a concert including 15 world premieres by composers including Ligeti’s son Lukas. In this specially created bonus edition of the Aldeburgh Festival podcast, the quartet members explore these new works and the music of Ligeti himself in advance of Ligeti Day on Friday 23 June.2023-06-1438 min
The Aldeburgh Festival PodcastLetters to a Young ArtistIn the final episode of the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival podcast, our guests offer their advice to a young person starting our in their careers. And we are let in on some of their hopes and dreams for the future.
Presented by Tom McKinney
Edited by Matt Jolly
Original theme music by Aldeburgh Young Musician, Laila Arafah2023-06-0527 min
The Aldeburgh Festival PodcastBritten, Pears and a small corner of EnglandThe stars of the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival discuss the living legacy of two of its founders, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. How has their music, their relationship, and their determination to make music useful for the community informed their own musical lives? And why were they so affected by this quiet stretch of Suffolk coast?
Presented by Tom McKinney
Edited by Matt Jolly
Original theme music by Aldeburgh Young Musician, Laila Arafa2023-06-0123 min
The Aldeburgh Festival PodcastThe Making of a PerformanceIn this episode you’ll hear directly from the stars themselves about what to expect from their Aldeburgh Festival performances. We’ll also get a window into how they are preparing. For some, the journey to the 2023 Festival began several years ago…
Presented by BBC Radio 3’s Tom McKinney
Edited by Matt Jolly
Original theme music by Aldeburgh Young Musician, Laila Arafah2023-05-3017 min
The Aldeburgh Festival PodcastCreative Spaces & StargazingOver the next few weeks we are counting down to the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival with the help of some of its star performers, artists, composers and conductors. In this episode we ask our guests about the importance of their surroundings – the sights and sounds of their creative spaces, the bleak beauty of Aldeburgh, and a thread through this year’s Festival: the enormity of the cosmos.
Presented by BBC Radio 3’s Tom McKinney
Edited by Matt Jolly
Original theme music by Aldeburgh Young Musician, Laila Arafah2023-05-2526 min
The Aldeburgh Festival PodcastA Musical GatheringOver the next few weeks we are counting down to the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival with the help of some of its star performers, artists, composers and conductors. What are they looking forward to, how are they preparing, and what does the Aldeburgh Festival mean to them?
Presented by BBC Radio 3’s Tom McKinney
Edited by Matt Jolly
Original theme music by Aldeburgh Young Musician, Laila Arafah2023-05-2327 min
The Classical Music PodAnna Thorvaldsdottir Doesn’t Need a ProgrammeTim travels to the home of Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir for a classical chat. They discuss Icelandic’s musical pedigree, her upcoming role as Featured Artist at the Aldeburgh Festival, her cameo in Todd Field’s Tár and the importance (or unimportance) of a work’s conceptual inspiration in the ears of the listener.…Featured Clips:ARCHORA, performed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra under Eva OllikainenAIŌN, performed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra under Eva OllikainenRó, performed by CAPUT Ensemble under by Guðni FranzsonLinks:Anna’s websi...2023-04-1440 min
Wigmore Hall PodcastsIn My Own Time: Sir Humphrey Burton in conversation with Tasmin LittleIn My Own Time: Sir Humphrey Burton in conversation with Tasmin Little
Sir Humphrey Burton is one of Britain's most influential post-war music and arts broadcasters, having worked closely with Leonard Bernstein and Yehudi Menuhin, as well as establishing BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1978. Following the recent publication of his autobiography In My Own Time, Sir Humphrey spoke to the acclaimed violinist Tasmin Little about his extraordinary life in music.
If listeners to this podcast would like to purchase a copy of Sir Humphrey’s autobiography, signed and dedicated as i...2022-07-181h 03
Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast154: Composer Tom Coult introduces the new opera 'Violet'Written in 2019 and originally premiering at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2020, Tom Coult and Alice Birch's 'Violet' tells the 24-day story of a village discovering the gradual loss of time. Recorded at rehearsals in the Jerwood Space in London in May 2022. 'Violet' opens the 2022 Aldeburgh Festival on 3 June. 🎫 https://brittenpearsarts.org/events/violet2022-05-1120 min
Poetry in AldeburghHuman Impact on Nature, Landscape and ClimateHuman Impact on Nature, Landscape and Climate (E13), Place (3), Sunday 7th November 2021, 12-1 pmWith Sarah Westcott, Steph Morris, Anna Saunders and Dom Bury. This event was hosted by Jan HeritageThis event brings together four poets all exploring in their own way our human relationship with nature, landscape and climate, conscious of our footprint, and the impact of our lives on our environment. Sarah Westcott’s first collection was described by Jacob Polley as 'fierce with intelligence’. Reading from her follow-up, Bloom, the poems approach the cultural and physical spaces where human and non-human lives...2022-03-0158 minPoetry in AldeburghScript, Shape and Image - the Poem and the PageScript, Shape and Image - the Poem and the Page (E14), Perception (3), Sunday 7th November 2021, 3-4 pmWith Jo Morris Dixon, Shash Trevett, Lisa Kelly, Harry Man and Endre Ruset. This event was hosted by Patricia DebneyHow do form and image – what is on the page, and what is not – shape poetry? How can they be used to speak about otherwise difficult things? The three projects explored in this session move between image, script, and shape as ways of reaching their material. Jo Morris Dixon’s debut pamphlet, I told you everything (Verve Press 2021), address...2022-02-211h 06Poetry in AldeburghA Dream of Myself – Four Irish Poets FinaleA Dream of Myself – Four Irish Poets Finale (E16), Play (3), Sunday 7th November 2021, 7-8 pmWith poets Seán Hewitt, Róisín Kelly, Aoife Lyall and Victoria Kennefick. Hosted by Ramona HerdmanCan we live with the past, yet not be consumed by it? This event shows how themes of the sacred and the profane materialise in contemporary Irish poetry. With lyrics on sex, grief, loss, as well as hope and new life, Seán Hewitt will read from his book Tongues of Fire Cape 2020). Róisín Kelly’s Mercy (Bloodaxe 2020), attempts to reconcile he...2022-02-121h 25Poetry in AldeburghPoetry, Popular Culture and Video Games(E11), Play (2), Saturday 6th November 2021, 7-8 pmWith Maria Sledmere, Calum Rodger, Matthew Haigh and Emma Filtness. This event was hosted by Susannah HartHow are popular culture and video games vehicles for exploring themes such as grief, loss and transcendence – all within poetic modalities of ‘play’? Can the virtual worlds of video games allow us to escape our grief, inhabit the lives of others, and reconnect with lost loved ones? Four poets carry us between experimental takes on traditional lyric, ecopoetics, post-internet pastoral and more multimedia approaches to gameplay poetics. In these poems, play is mat...2022-02-081h 02Poetry in AldeburghBad Betty Poets(E12), After Dinner Event (2), Saturday 6th November 2021, 9-10 pmWith Kirsten Luckins, S.Niroshini, Joel Auterson and Shareen K Murayama. Hosted by Amy AcreListen to some of the strange, raw and risk-taking poetry published by Bad Betty in a showcase event hosted by Bad Betty editor Amy Acre. Investigating perception, misconception and understanding, four poets read from collections that probe sexual politics, twist mythological narratives and experiment with disguise and role-play. Kirsten Luckins' epistolary collection Passerine (2021) charts a year in letters to a lost friend. S. Niroshini's debut Darling Girl (2021) explores Sr...2022-02-0852 minPoetry in AldeburghMessing About and Crossing OutPlay (1) : (E6), Messing About and Crossing Out, Friday 5th November 2021, 7-8 PMWith James McDermott, Katie Griffiths, Jon Stone and Chrissy Williams. This event was hosted by Jane Commane. What is the mind, if not a trickster? And what is the body if not a con-artist? And what is consciousness, if not the in-joke that swallows us whole? Four poets read from new collections which spotlight invention and fantasy, drag and erasure.Drawing on the language of comedy and clowning in an exploration of identity in the face of loss, Chrissy Williams’s LOW interr...2022-01-2557 minPoetry in AldeburghFollowing in the footsteps of John ClareAfternoon Talk (2) : Following in the footsteps of John Clare (E10), Saturday 6th November 2021, 5-6 PMWith Robert Selby, Pam Thompson and Robert Hamberger. This event was hosted by Kathy Pimlott.The event opens with a reading by Robert Selby of his recent debut collection of Suffolk-inspired poems. This is followed by exploration of Robert Hamberger’s re-tracing of John Clare's 1841 walk home from Epping Forest to Werrington, near Peterborough. In interview with the Leicester-based poet, Pam Thompson, Hamberger discusses the research and writing of the book and reads from his memoir of that walk: A Len...2022-01-1859 minPoetry in AldeburghSeren at 40 Anniversary CelebrationSeren at 40 Anniversary CelebrationAfternoon Talk and Reading (1) : Seren at 40 Anniversary Celebration (E5), Friday 5th November 2021, 5-6 PMWith Kim Moore, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Dai George and Abeer Ameer. This event was hosted by Amy Wack.Join us to revel in Seren’s 40th anniversary! Seren poets have previously won the Costa and Forward First Collection awards among many others. This special event brings together four vibrant poets published in Seren’s 40th year: Kim Moore’s much awaited second collection is a numbered sequence of 48 poems with the same title: All The Men I Never...2022-01-181h 11Poetry in AldeburghGuillemot Press Poets on Poetry and CollaborationGuillemot Press Poets on Poetry and Collaboration (E7), Friday 5th November 2021, 9 - 10pmWith Katrina Porteous, Phoebe Power, Petero Kalulé and Clarissa Álvarez. Hosted by Paul StephensonWhat synergies can be created when poets work with others, particularly across disciplines? Join four poets from Guillemot Press, who in 2021 celebrated writing and working together to produce two stand out titles. Sea Change, by Phoebe Power, winner of the 2018 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and Katrina Porteous, whose work was recognised in the 2021 Cholmondeley Awards, explores Durham's 'radical coast' and the recent changes to t...2022-01-1053 minPoetry in AldeburghPoetry on Mental HealthPerception (1) : Poetry on Mental Health (E4), Friday 5th November 2021, 3 - 4 pmWith Briony Bax, Louisa Campbell, Rachel Lewis and Andrew McMillan. This event was hosted by Paul StephensonHow do we express where we are, what this feels like, and whether we will get through it? What do we observe in others and their struggles? And what about love, family, and relationships? For this event we are delighted to feature Andrew McMillan, reading from his much-anticipated collection, Pandemonium, already hailed as [an] ‘exceptional vigil of a book’ (Kate Kellaway, The Observer). Joining him i...2021-12-211h 00Poetry in AldeburghFenland Poetry Journal Showcase with Wendy CopePlace (1) : Fenland Poetry Journal Showcase with Wendy Cope (E3), Friday 5th November 2021, 12-1 PMWith Jonathan Totman, Agnieszka Studzińska, Dominic O’Sullivan, Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, Anna Maria Mickiewicz, Chris Emery, and with special guest Wendy Cope. This event was hosted by Elisabeth Sennitt Clough.The Fenland Poetry Journal is a bi-annual poetry magazine founded in Fenland, which recently published its 5th issue. Editor Elisabeth Sennitt Clough’s objective in creating a new poetry and art magazine was to connect the local with the international. Each issue showcases a range of poets: local, national, international, emerg...2021-12-1559 minPoetry in AldeburghPoetry London Celebrates 100 issuesAfter Dinner Event (1) : Poetry London Celebrates 100 issues (E2), Thursday 4th November 2021, 9 - 10pmWith Rachel Long, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Momtaza Mehri, Jemilea Wisdom-Baako and Janine Bradbury. This event is hosted by André Naffis-SahelyCelebrate the 100th edition of Poetry London, with editor André Naffis-Sahely, and recently featured poets Rachel Long, Vidyan Ravinthiran and Momtaza Mehri alongside Poetry London mentees, Jemilea Wisdom-Baako and Janine Bradbury. From modest beginnings in 1988, when it was a listings newsletter, Poetry London has developed into one of the UK’s leading poetry magazines. Do not be misled by its name: Poetry London has...2021-12-021h 06Poetry in AldeburghFestival LaunchFestival Launch (E1), Thursday 4th November 2021, 7 - 8pmWith Sarah Doyle, Vanessa Lampert, Samatar Elmi and Stephen Payne. Hosted by Paul Stephenson and Patricia DebneyRevisiting our festival themes of Place, Perception and Play, the launch event kicks off 3 full days of poetry with four poets from four incredible independent presses. Three poets launch their debut pamphlets. For ‘Place’, the Pre-Raphaelite Society’s Poet-in-Residence Sarah Doyle reads from her pamphlet of collage poems – Something so wild and new in this feeling (V. Press) – inspired by Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals from The Lake District. For ‘Perception’, ‘in her debut pamphl...2021-12-011h 01Poetry in AldeburghContemporary Ethiopian Poetry – The Poetics of TruthPlace (2) : Contemporary Ethiopian Poetry – The Poetics of Truth (E8), Saturday 6th November 2021, 12 - 1pm. Hosted by Chris BeckettReadings by Chris Beckett (Host, London), Mihret Kebede (Vienna), Misrak Terefe (Addis Ababa), Kebedech Tekleab (New York), Bedilu Wakjira (Addis Ababa). This event brings together Ethiopian poets reading live from London, Vienna, New York and Addis Ababa. All appeared in the recent Carcanet anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit, and heartache of a beautiful country and language. From folk and religious poems, warrior boasts, praises of women and kings and modern plumbing; through a...2021-11-2359 minPoetry in AldeburghRory Waterman talks to Wendy CopeAfternoon Talk (3) : Rory Waterman talks to Wendy Cope (E15), Sunday 7th November 2021, 5 - 6pm. Hosted by Susannah HartTo celebrate a unique new study of the poet and her work, the academic, critic and poet Rory Waterman talks to Wendy Cope about her writing life and poetry career. Wendy Cope is one of Britain’s most popular poets: her first two collections have together sold almost half a million copies, and in 1998, when Ted Hughes died, she was the BBC listeners’ choice to succeed him as Poet Laureate. She is also contrarian and sometimes controversial, and has been...2021-11-231h 01Poetry in AldeburghOn Poetry and TraumaPerception (2) : On Poetry and Trauma (E9), Saturday 6th November 2021, 3-4 PMWith Chaucer Cameron, Day Mattar, Tessa Foley and Alice Hiller. Hosted by Patricia DebneySo many experiences of sexual abuse and trauma are silenced. How do we find the voices to speak about what is hidden, or secret? How does poetry emerge, and what does it sound like? Where do we go from here? Alice Hiller’s debut collection, Bird of Winter, tackles being groomed and sexually abused in childhood. Acclaimed by Sasha Dugdale as ‘…the excavation of a city...2021-11-161h 03
Poetry in AldeburghBetween Places : Britain and EuropePlace (2) : Between Places: Britain and Europe (E6), Saturday 14th November 2020, 12-1 PMWith Sharon Black, Alex Josephy, Fokkina McDonnell and Christopher NorthThis event, hosted by Paul Stephenson, brings together four poets that split their time between the UK and France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. The readings consider the impact of Brexit on their lives and, indeed, on their writing. Sharon Black lives in a remote valley of the Cévennes mountains of southern France. Editor of Pindrop Press, she ‘doesn’t just write about the world - a rock, a flock of starlings, an af...2021-10-051h 02
Poetry in AldeburghNature and Nurture presented by the Poetry SocietyPlay (3): Nature and Nurture presented by the Poetry Society (E13), Sunday 15th November 2020, 5-6 PMOur host for this event is Ben RogersHear poems from last year’s National Poetry Competition. Charlotte Knight reads her commended poem ‘MOONDADDY’ and work from her exquisitely wrought Shut Up in a Cave, a collection concerned with grief, pregnancy, goats and the moon. And how would novelist Joe Dunthorne’s mutinous humour translate into poetry? The answer is: ‘brilliantly... There’s nothing his imagination cannot transform’ (The Observer). Hear him read from his collection...2021-05-281h 00
Poetry in AldeburghPerformance in the Pub at the virtual 'Cross Keys'After Dinner Event (2): Performance in the Pub at the virtual 'Cross Keys' (E10), Saturday 13th November 2020, 9-10 PMOur host for this event is Jill AbramA delicious tone of eavesdropping binds these three readings as we are called to contemplate the binds that tie us to one another. Fact, fiction and fantasy share an equal playing field through poems of dream lovers, friends and inner-city neighbours. In These Queer Merboys, Serge ♆ Neptune invites the reader into his mythical dreamscape of mermen, a world charged with powerful eroticism where desire is fraught with danger. Al...2021-05-0444 min
Poetry in AldeburghA Scottish FantasyReading on Play (3): 'A Scottish Fantasy' (E14), Sunday 15th November 2020, 3-4pmOur host for this event is Sharon BlackThrough a plethora of visions, superstitions and personas, Sunday evening’s event muses what it is to be human in past, present and future. Reimagine Norse sagas with Miriam Nash’s forthcoming The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr, which imagines the vast and mythic Northern landscape in a giant, matriarchal re-telling of the creation myth. Delve into Andy Jackson’s new collection The Saints are Coming, inspired by the lives of genuine patron saints of strange things...2021-04-151h 02
Neil Oliver Podcast46. Francis Drake and the Golden Hind, AldeburghThis week Neil is taking us aboard the Golden Hind, a legendary ship that sailed around the world and into history.In 16th century Aldeburgh, which was then an important east-coast port, shipbuilders set to work building a vessel that was to have a profound influence on British history.Once completed and seaworthy Francis Drake and his crew climbed aboard and set sail on an epic 3 year voyage to circumnavigate the globe. On its return the ship was full to bursting with gold, silver and precious jewels, and Francis Drake received a hero’s...2021-04-0630 min
Poetry in AldeburghObjects and EnquiryReading on Perception (3): 'Objects and Enquiry' (E12), Sunday 15th November 2020, 3-4pmOur host for this event is Paul StephensonObjects and EnquiryObjects can have a powerful hold over us. An old rug can be just an everyday object or it can hold a world of memories in its threadbare patterns. We all look at, and understand them, in different ways – finding memories, secrets, fears and surprises. Olivia Dawson’s poems relate to how we perceive objects to which we are sentimentally attached. ‘Unfolded’ is a poetry pamphlet whose theme ev...2021-03-3158 min
Poetry in AldeburghNorth, South, East, WestReading on Place (1): 'North, South, East, West' (E1), Friday 13th November 2020, 12-1pmThis episode is hosted by Susannah HartWe began the first of our three-day festival by bringing together poets from the four corners of the UK, from Aberdeenshire to Cornwall and from Merseyside to Norfolk. Martin Malone’s new selected Larksong Static takes a synoptic view of the last 15 years of writing. He is described by Carol Ann Duffy as offering ‘an excavation of time and place, landscape and language, every word alert to the elements without and their emotions within. Sue...2021-03-1957 min
Poetry in AldeburghLanguages and PlaceAfternoon Talk (2): 'Languages and Place' (E8), Saturday 14th November 2020, 12-1pmOur host for this event is Jane Commane from Nine Arches PressWe understand the world around us and the places we are in through the languages we use to describe them. Languages bring us together and set up apart. When there is conflict and confrontation, I take hope from how we can (word)play and interleave our tongues’ (L. Kiew). This afternoon event brings together poets who explore place through the way in which they use foreign language in their poems, conjuring Hong Ko...2021-03-1259 min
Poetry in AldeburghAll Saints Sessions present: Ultra SoundAfter Dinner Event: 'All Saints Sessions present: Ultra Sound' (E5), Friday 13th November 2020, 9-10 pmCheryl Moskowitz and Alastair Gavin’s fusion of poetry and sound with special guests poet Isabelle Baafi, and musicians Malcom Ball and Ian Burdge.Find your headphones and immerse yourself in a magnificent fusion of sound and poetry. Cheryl Moskowitz and Alastair Gavin have devised an innovative performance especially for Poetry in Aldeburgh 2020! With guest musicians Ian Burdge and Malcolm Ball, alongside poet Isabelle Baafi. All Saints Sessions is innovative poetry and electronics performance series running since 2017, which features a ch...2021-03-0133 min
Poetry in AldeburghThe World Around UsReading on Perception (2): 'The World Around Us' (E6), Saturday 14th November 2020, 3-4pmOur host for this event is Patricia DebneyIn perceiving the world around us, how do we reconcile what we see and encounter with our understanding, our feelings and our beliefs? Rebecca Watts’ poems describe ‘a world of contingency, both fragile and beguiling’ ‘Formally elegant and precise, Watts's lyrical voice is vividly lit, and richly evocative. Red Gloves is a deeply moving collection, profound and insightful: a true tonic for these superficial, facile times’ (Neil Rollinson). Mina Gorji...2021-02-2457 min
Poetry in AldeburghPlace and MemoryReading on Place (3): 'Place and Memory' (E11), Sunday 15th November 2020, 12-1pmOur host for this event is Patricia DebneyHow much of a place do we carry with us into the future? And how does the memory of place ripple down across generations? In her mid-20s, Heidi Williamson was part of a Scottish community that suffered an inconceivable tragedy – the Dunblane Primary School shooting. Those years living in the town form the focus of Return by Minor Road. Through rivers, rain, wildlife and landscape, she revisits where ‘the occasional endu...2021-02-1958 min
Poetry in AldeburghThe Human ComedyReading on Play (2): 'The Human Comedy' (E9), Saturday 14th November 2020, 7-8pmOur host for this event is Dr Helen Eastman, Founder and director of Live CanonEmbracing the surreal, the bewildering and nonsensical, four poets jostle and jest with modern life, poking fun at power structures, taking us on ‘text adventure games’, and seducing us with bewildering snapshots, including a pair of scissors that can cut anything. Anything. Katherine Stansfield has made a name for herself both as a wryly witty poet of the everyday seen ‘aslant’ and as a popular novelist of crime and fant...2021-02-1159 min
Falando Música com Gabriel Takano32#- Diversidade nas Orquestras e algumas dicas de Contrabaixo- Patricia WeitzelDra. Patricia Weitzel desenvolve carreira internacional atuando como professora, musicista de orquestra
e de câmara. Reside nos Estados Unidos há 14 anos e e Professora de Contrabaixo na Columbus State
University.
Sua formação em contrabaixo teve início com Ricardo Vasconcellos na Escola de Musica de Brasilia,
continuando os estudos na Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais com o Dr. Fausto Borem. Logo depois
mudou-se aos Estados Unidos para estudar com o Dr. Marcos Machado. Patricia é Doutora em Música
pela University of Iowa onde estudou com o v...2020-12-142h 14
Biting Talk6: Mark Wogan, Tommy Banks, Beverley Joiner and Farhad HeydariOn this episode - recorded at the Fishers gin distillery on Aldeburgh beach William Sitwell talks pizza and Sir Terry Wogan with Homeslice founder Mark Wogan, he catches up with MasterChef finalist Beverley Joiner and speaks to North Yorkshire’s culinary hero Tommy Banks. Plus a two-minute cocktail from Farhad Heydari and this episode he’s shaking a Clubland Cocktail2020-07-3033 min
The Travel DiariesEd StaffordOn today’s episode, I’m joined by the explorer and survivalist Ed Stafford. In 2010, Ed became the first person to walk the entire length of the Amazon River, a feat that took 860 days and put him on the map as one of our most prominent and exciting adventurers. From there here’s gone on to present and self film more massive challenges, like living in complete isolation on a desert island for 60 days without food, clothes or equipment, or being left for dead in various extreme environments around the world from Madagascar to Mongolia. These became incredible TV series...2020-07-2145 min
Let's Talk Off The PodiumElaine Mitchener, experimental vocalist, movement artist and composerIn this episode we talk about Elaine Mitchener's many projects, improvisation, music education, Jeanne Lee and much more. Elaine Mitchener is an experimental vocalist, movement artist and composer, whose work encompasses improvisation, contemporary music theatre and performance art. Born in East London to Jamaican parents, Elaine studied voice at Trinity College of Music, London and currently studies with Jacqueline Bremar. She has performed at numerous UK and European festivals, venues and galleries including Aldeburgh Music, London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF), 56th Venice Biennale, Wysing Arts, Café Oto (London), Bluecoat (Liverpool), SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), P...2020-07-1657 min
Women of Science & Music: 30 celebrationsEpisode 9 Another Holst in Thaxtedhttps://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.ukThaxted Festival has a wonderful reputation for classical music in Essex and is normally associated with Gustav Holst whose 1916 Whitsun Festival there laid the foundations for the modern events. But there was another Holst who has many important connections with the development of the festival we know today. Imogen Holst forged a significant career in music as a composer with an array of skills and interests which grew in many ways through her father’s, and her own attachment to Thaxted.We explore her life and work with Judith Ratcliffe, Archivist at...2020-07-1215 min
From The Red HouseTelling Life StoriesSarah has written, directed and performed in two Aldeburgh Festival Pumphouse shows over the last two years: Middagh Street (2018), a glorious evocation of Britten and Pears' months in a riotously bohemian house-share in 1940s; and Barlines (2019), an account of Michael Tippett's formative time spent in Wormwood Scrubs in 1943. Tune in for a conversation about biography and fiction, where the two crossover, and where they diverge. Plus, what our speakers have been listening to this week.
2020-06-0834 min
Stories from the Archives'The Jewish Vicar' performed by Jon Canter (from SPLASH!)Jon Canter reads his excellently funny story 'The Jewish Vicar' about a man who finds himself in the wrong clothes at the right time. Recorded at the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, in 2012.
The story was later developed into a BBC Radio 4 afternoon play starring Stephen Mangan, Claudie Blakley and Pauline McLynn (2014).2020-04-2100 min
Private PassionsChris WatsonWildlife sound recordist and sound artist Chris Watson talks to Michael Berkeley about how his favourite music is inspired by the natural world.
Chris is most famous for his sound recordings for David Attenborough’s television series – for which he’s won BAFTAs – but he’s a musician too. A member of the influential post-punk band Cabaret Voltaire in the late 70s and early 80s, today he’s a sound artist and composer, creating installations around the world.His 2003 release Weather Report, featuring soundscapes of a Kenyan savannah, a Highland glen, and an Icelandic glacier, was voted one of the 1...2020-04-1235 min
Inspiring Adventure by Vertebrate PublishingEp 16 - Helen Mort on why you Never Leave the Dog BehindHelen Mort is a writer, trail runner and climber who lives in Sheffield. She teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, and her published work includes poetry, fiction and non-fiction, with a particular interest in women and mountaineering. Her first poetry collection, Division Street (Chatto & Windus, 2013), was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize, and won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. In 2015, Helen was chosen as one of the Next Generation poets. Her first novel, Black Car Burning (Chatto & Windus, 2019), was longlisted for the Portico Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Helen...2020-04-0918 min
beneath the stream21. Sea Voices: siren voicesHow do we each respond to the environmental alarms that are being sounded by climate, nature, youth and the ocean? In this episode we feature interviews with Roger Hardy and Rhett Griffiths - wave-tossed thoughts from the tideline of the North Sea - plus a recording of Rhett’s epic poem ‘The Tipping Tide’.
Artists suggest different ways of seeing the world and, in response to these issues and as part of Siren Festival in 2019, artist and sculptor Roger Hardy created a powerful installation and multiple figurative sculptural piece on Aldeburgh beach entitled ‘Time and Tide’. He also create...2020-03-0800 minbeneath the stream21. Roger Hardy, Rhett Griffiths. Sea Voices ~ Siren voicesHow do we each respond to the environmental alarms that are being sounded by climate, nature, youth and the ocean? In this episode we feature interviews with Roger Hardy and Rhett Griffiths - wave-tossed thoughts from the tideline of the North Sea - plus a recording of Rhett’s epic poem ‘The Tipping Tide’.
Artists suggest different ways of seeing the world and, in response to these issues and as part of Siren Festival in 2019, artist and sculptor Roger Hardy created a powerful installation and multiple figurative sculptural piece on Aldeburgh beach entitled ‘Time and Tide’. He also create...2020-03-0841 min
Better KnownFiona MaddocksFiona Maddocks discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Fiona is music critic of the Observer and author of books on Hildegard of Bingen, Harrison Birtwistle and 20th century music. Her Music for Life (Faber) is now in paperback.
Shandy Hall https://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/shandy-hall.php
Peckham Peculiar and Bruton Dove https://peckhampeculiar.tumblr.com/ and http://thedovemagazine.blogspot.com/
Cumnock Tryst https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/13/cumnock-tryst-review-james-macmillan-royal-scottish-national-orchestra-sondergard and https://www.thecumnocktryst.com/
Nottingham Alabasters https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes...2020-01-2629 min
Music Therapy ConversationsEp 33 John WilsonIn episode 33 Luke talks to an old friend of his, the conductor John Wilson. John was born in Gateshead and studied composition and conducting at the Royal College of Music, where in 2011 he was made a Fellow. Back in 1994, he formed his own orchestra, the John Wilson Orchestra, dedicated to performing music from the golden age of Hollywood and Broadway, and with whom he has appeared regularly across the UK, including at the BBC Proms annually since 2009. In March 2019, John was awarded the prestigious ISM Distinguished Musician Award for his services to music. He is now in...2019-12-1142 min
The Great Women ArtistsMaggi HamblingIn Episode 11 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews the legendary British painter and sculptor, MAGGI HAMBLING!
And WOW was it fun (and definitely an experience!) to visit the very brilliant Maggi in her South London studio to speak about her extensive and incredible five decades-and-counting career.
Known for her portraits of the likes of comedian Max Wall to chemist Dorothy Hodgkin, sublime depictions of seascapes, public sculptures that include a 4-metre high steel 'Scallop' on Aldeburgh Beach, Maggi is always one to give her viewer some sort of immediate reaction, whether that be physical, emotional, or at ti...2019-12-0334 min
Composer of the WeekHarrison BirtwistleDonald Macleod talks to Sir Harrison Birtwistle about his life, inspiration and music.This week Donald Macleod meets Sir Harrison Birtwistle, described as “the most forceful and uncompromisingly original composer of his generation.” We hear his major compositions, broadly in chronological order, and reveal the preoccupations and processes behind a singular music imagination. To begin, we’ll hear about, Birtwistle’s daily working life, and about his early years among what became known as the Manchester school of composers. The premiere of his first opera Punch and Judy at Aldeburgh was infamous - much of the audi...2019-11-011h 15
Musikrevyn i P2Peter Matteis kritikerhyllade Winterreise nu på skivaPanelen skräms av scener ur ett äktenskap i Riddar Blåskäggs borg, tycker att fler borde spela piano fyrhändigt och hör utsökta stunder i Marc-Antoine Charpentiers barockmusik.
Veckans skivor:
BARTÓK - BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE Opera av Béla Bartók Sångare: John Relyea, Michelle Deyoung m.fl. Bergens filharmoniska orkester Edward Gardner, dirigent Chandos CHSA 5237
Betyg: 4
DOUBLE TROUBLE - WORKS FOR PIANO FOUR HANDS Pianomusik av bland andra Amanda Maier-Röntgen, Jacob Adolf Hägg och Cécile Chaminade David Huang och Bengt Forsberg, piano dB Productions dBCD 189
Betyg: 4
SCHUBERT - WINTERREISE Sångcykel av F...2019-10-2700 min
Come For SupperThane PrinceAlexandra speaks to Thane Prince. Thane is a leading cookery writer and teacher. With over 30 years of experience in the food industry, Thane can’t remember a time when she didn’t enjoy food. For over a decade Thane was a food writer for the Daily Telegraph, cooking with some of the most highly regarded chefs in the world. She then founded the acclaimed Aldeburgh Cookery School which was rated as one of the top three culinary institutions in the UK. Thane has published 12 cookery books including ‘Jams and Chutneys', which has sold over 100,000 copies and has be...2019-10-1600 min
Talking Classical PodcastEp. 18: Sarah Champion (read summarised interview on the blog), World Mental Health Day and some updates.*All podcasts formerly on SoundCloud have now been redirected to Anchor.*
Interview with Sarah Champion: https://talkingclassicalpodcast.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/ep-18-interview-with-canadian-mezzo-soprano-sarah-champion/ Canadian high mezzo-soprano Sarah Champion has been acclaimed for her ‘clarity and assurance’ (Opera Magazine) and heard both on the opera stage and the concert platform in Europe and North America in repertoire spanning four-centuries. Ms. Champion’s recent engagements have included The Lover in Tansy Davies’ BETWEEN WORLDS directed by Deborah Warner for English National Opera, Dorabella COSÌ FAN TUTTE on tour with Scottish Opera, Dorotea STIFFELIO for Chelsea Opera Group, the role of Naomi in the wor...2019-09-3005 min
Big Feed up HQCracking Around Aldeburgh Food FestivalIn this episode I dodge around the Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival for a few minutes between mouthfuls.
The festival is housed in Snape Maltings, get on over in 2020 lovely people it is a winner.
Featured:
Aldeburgh Food Festival: https://aldeburghfoodanddrink.co.uk/
Hubbub Foundation: https://www.hubbub.org.uk/
Suffolk Pate Company: https://www.bigbarn.co.uk/producer/ipswich/the-suffolk-pate-company-22601/
High House Farm: http://high-house.co.uk/
Imaginative Traveller: https://www.imaginative-traveller.com/
Suffolk Coffee Pod: https://www.suffolkcoffeepod.com/
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Poetry KoanEPISODE 26: Richard Scott prescribes Practising by Marie HoweIn this episode of Poetry Koan, Richard Scott prescribes Practising by Marie Howe which you can read here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54778/practicing. RICHARD SCOTT was born in London in 1981. His poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies including Poetry Review, Poetry London, PN Review, Swimmers, The Poetry of Sex (Penguin) and Butt Magazine. He has been a winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, a Jerwood/Arvon Poetry Mentee and a member of the Aldeburgh 8. His pamphlet ‘Wound’ (Rialto) won the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2016 and his poem ‘crocodile’ won the 2017 Poetry London Competition. Soho (Faber...2019-09-2239 min
Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast50: Verbier Festival Director Martin Engstroem on leadership, vision, and talentWhat marked Martin out for leadership? What mindset helped him be successful. What does he look for in artists? The former VP of Deutsche Grammophon - Artists and Repertoire - shared insights into how the record industry works, why he moved from artist management to artistic directorship. And, his connection with the Aldeburgh Festival. 2019-07-3053 min
Arts & IdeasBreaking Down the BarriersRana Mitter hears about a project that assesses the experiences of Muslim women in the UK cultural industries and talks to political artist John Keane. Author Katherine Rundell explains why adults should be reading children's books. Plus New Generation Thinker Majed Akhter on the sailor and activist Dada Amir Haider Khan and why his global approach to workers' rights has lessons for us now.Beyond Faith: Muslim Women Artists Today which includes work by Usarae Gul is at the Whitworth, Manchester from Friday 14th June until October 2019John Keane's exhibition If you knew me. If...2019-06-1144 min
The VerbAldeburghThis week The Verb is live at The Aldeburgh Festival in Snape Maltings. Joining Ian and a studio audience are Lavinia Greenlaw, Fiona Sampson and Mark Padmore.Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Faith Lawrence2019-06-0846 min
Alive with FlavourSlate Cheese - talking CheeseA very interesting visit to Slate Cheese in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Chatting with owner Clare as she talks through cheese fondu, their impressive cheese wall and shop. 2019-03-1920 min
Talking Classical PodcastEp. 5: Roderick Williams*All podcasts formerly on SoundCloud have now been redirected to Anchor.*
It was a delight to talk to the celebrated British baritone and composer Roderick Williams earlier this week about his musical training at school, university and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, thought processes when singing and performing, technical aspects of singing, and his methods in front of a live audience. Special thanks to: Roddy for additional arrangements and taking the time out of his busy schedule to talk to me. Francesco Bastanzetti at Groves Artists for practical arrangements. Helen Beardsley at English National Opera...2019-01-1844 min
Be Your Own ManagerFinns in and out of AmericaEnjoy the #classicalbuzz news roundup of classical music news from around the world. Esa-Pekka Salonen is heading back to California. Osmo Vänskä leaves Minnesota. Daniele Gatti got a quick contract in Rome. The Aldeburgh Festival won some of the most innovative musicians for the 2019 edition.2018-12-1011 minOpen CountryBenjamin Britten's AldeburghThe composer Benjamin Britten is closely associated with the Suffolk coast at Aldeburgh where he lived and worked for most of his life. This episode of Open Country explores how this landscape and the sea inspired some of Britten's most famous work. Lucy Walker from the Britten-Pears Foundation describes how Britten became rooted in Suffolk and how important it was for him to write music specifically for the people and places in Aldeburgh. Two of Britten's well-known operas Billy Budd and Peter Grimes are about people who made their living from the sea - we hear from fishermen in...2018-12-0724 min
Tall Poppies The PodcastPaul Kildea, Author & MusicianSend us a textIn this edition, Paul Kildea talks about his latest book, "Chopin's Piano, A Journey Through Romanticism," and rising to the challenge of finding the right words to describe music. He also recalls the time in his life when the adjective – Australian - was not a positive one and shares his insatiable passion for Australia.“I have always tried to work out a way of coming up with a single image or analogy or a metaphor, that makes it really clear to a non-specialist, the phenomenon of hearing that piece of music”Th...2018-06-081h 09
Relevant TonesWorld Music Days: Vancouver Part 1The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) holds arguably the world’s most important contemporary music festival in a different city each year.
Much like the Olympics, cities bid to be the host and this year it’s in Vancouver. In this first program of two, we hear from Jordan Nobles, Charlotte Bray, Jocelyn Morlock, and Stefan Prins.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Music
Skywriting, by Jordan Nobles
Redshift Vertical Orchestra & Electric Guitar Orchestra
At the Speed of Stillness, by Charlotte Bray
Aldeburgh World Orchest...2017-12-2958 min
New Writing NorthAndrew McMillan – Commissioned poemEach year Durham Book Festival works in partnership with Durham University to invite an acclaimed poet to become the Festival Laureate. In 2017, we welcomed Andrew McMillan to the role. Here, Andrew reads his specially commissioned poem.
Andrew McMillan’s debut collection physical was the first ever poetry collection to win The Guardian First Book Award. The collection also won the Fenton Aldeburgh Award and a Northern Writers’ Award.2017-12-0506 min
Contrabass ConversationsPatricia Weitzel on competition, being direct, and opportunityI had a wonderful time chatting with Patricia Weitzel for the podcast! Patricia is a dynamic and engaging performer and teacher, and we had a great conversation covering: competitions how a missed opportunity can lead to a better one Patricia's journey from Brazil to the United States being direct with students ...and much more! More About Patricia: Patricia Weitzel holds a bachelor degree from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, where she studied with Dr. Fausto Borem, a Master of Music Performance Degree from The University of Southern Mississippi, where her primary teacher was Dr. Mar...2017-10-0440 min
Modern Poetry in TranslationTranslation Duel at Ledbury Poetry Festival! Olivia McCannon vs Susan WicksTwo poet-translators rattle their sabres for a duel of words and French poetry! Listen to MPT's translation duel which took place at Ledbury Poetry Festival, Sunday 9 July 2017. Olivia McCannon and Susan Wicks went head-to-head with their translations of a poem by Ariane Dreyfus. *No poets were harmed in the production of this event*.
About the translators:
Olivia McCannon is a translator of Balzac and winner of the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Susan Wicks’ translations of Valérie Rouzeau have won prizes and her own seventh collection, The Months was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.2017-07-1652 minPrivate PassionsNishat KhanNishat Khan is one of India's finest musicians; born into a dynasty of famous sitar players, he first went on stage with his father and uncle when he was only seven. Since that first appearance in Calcutta in the 1970s, he has performed worldwide, collaborated with all kinds of musicians, from Philip Glass to Gregorian choirs to Django Bates, and composed both for the BBC Proms and for Bollywood films. He's here in Britain to appear at the Aldeburgh Festival this June, fresh from recording the soundtrack to a Bollywood movie. In Private Passions he talks to...2017-06-1231 min
FT News in FocusAldeburgh festival celebrates bird songBritain's Aldeburgh music festival was founded after the second world war by the composer Benjamin Britten and the singer Peter Pears. Britten used to take “composing walks”, drawing inspiration from the birdsong he heard in the surrounding countryside and this year, birdsong forms the centrepiece of the festival, as artistic director Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and chief executive Roger Wright, told FT critic Hannah NepilMusic: Biber, Sonata Representativa: II. Nightingale, Romanesca; Williams, The Lark Ascending, Hugh Bean; Messiaen, Catalogue d'oiseaux / Book 3 - 6. L'Alouette Lulu, Pierre-Laurent-Aimard Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-06-0706 min
Sounds of our ShoresAldeburgh beach, SuffolkSounds on Aldeburgh beach, Suffolk, outside the lifeboat shelter and whilst walking along the shingle towards the sea. Recorded on my iPhone. #shoresounds2015-08-0204 min
Best of Natural History RadioSoundstage - Dawn ChorusWildlife sound recordist Chris Watson introduces the sounds of a dawn chorus recorded near Aldeburgh in Suffolk in the last in this series of immersive soundscapes.
Produced by Sarah Blunt2015-03-2713 min
Medicine UnboxedFRONTIERS - Daljit Nagra and Yasmin Gunaratnam - CROSSINGDaljit Nagra was born and brought up in West London and Sheffield. In 2003, he won the Smith/Doorstop pamphlet competition with Oh my Rub!, under the pseudonym Khan Singh Kumar, the pamphlet going on to become a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and chosen as one of The Guardian's Poetry Books of the Year. In 2004, his poem Look We Have Coming to Dover! won the Forward Prize (Best Single Poem), and this became the title of his first collection, published in 2007. It went on to win the 2007 Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) and the 2008 Arts Council England Decibel Award...2014-11-281h 06
Modern Poetry in TranslationTorso of Polyphemus: Karen Leeder on Durs Grünbein and Rilke at Poetry InternationalKAREN LEEDER
Karen Leeder is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in German at New College, Oxford. She has published widely on modern German literature, especially poetry and has been active in translation in the UK and beyond: including a stint on the English PEN Work in Translation Committee, the Steering Committee of the British Centre for Translation and on the Board of MPT.
DURS GRÜNBEIN
Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in the former East Germany in 1962. He has lived in Berlin since 1985, working as poet, essayist and translator fr...2014-09-1708 min
RADIO PETRUSKA | Markus Zohner Arts CompanyUsch Spettigue, Potter | Interview Radio Petruska, Markus Zohner Arts CompanyThis is a very rare interview with the potter Usch Spettigue.
She is creating artistic work in Suffolk, England, for over fourty years.
Here Usch speaks with Markus Zohner and tells about her life, inspiration, about the development of her technique and about her approach to pottery, about the procedures she has developed and about her views on her craft.
The interview has been recorded on August 26th and 27th 2014, in Aldeburgh and in Felixstowe, England, both times at the seashore, with strong winds and with spectacular waves.
http://spettigue.com
Usch Spettigue:
CONCENTRATING ON PURE FORM, RESEARCHING FOR NEW...2014-09-0317 min
P2 DokumentärBenjamin Britten – ett fjärde B, del 2Hur är det att vara släkt med en stor tonsättare? Alan, Benjamin Brittens brorson är idag i 70-årsåldern. Som liten vistades han på 40-talet ofta hemma hos sin farbror Benjamin i Aldeburgh. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. I del 2 om Britten berättar Alan om den tid då Brittens ”Peter Grimes” kom till. Vi går på upptäcksfärd i "Brittenland" och hör om de sista åren i Brittens liv.Premiären av operan ”Peter Grimes” 1945 gör den då 32-årige Benjamin Britten till det engelska musiklivets...2013-11-2451 min
Britten 100Britten's Suffolk: AldeburghLouise Fryer walks around Britten’s Aldeburgh2013-11-2405 minBritten 100Britten at Home: Britten's CarsA passion for big cars, and memories of a road race from Aldeburgh to Snape2013-11-2305 minBritten 100Britten's Suffolk: ChurchesLouise Fryer visits important churches to Britten in Aldeburgh, Blythburgh and Oxford2013-11-2306 minBritten 100Britten's Suffolk: Red HouseLouise Fryer views the Aldeburgh house that Britten and Pears called2013-11-2206 min
Scottish Poetry Library Podcast[SPL] August 2013: Kay RyanIn this longer-than-usual podcast SPL Programme Manager Jennifer Williams talks to Kay Ryan (http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=975), American poet and educator and 16th United States Poet Laureate. Kay was a 2011 MacArthur Fellow, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama, among many other awards and accolades. She was in Edinburgh to read at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as part of a tour (http://carcanetblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/kay-ryan-goes-transatlantic.html) including Snape Maltings Concert Hall in Aldeburgh and Dromineer Literature Festival. Before Jennifer and Kay headed...2013-08-261h 09
Modern Poetry in TranslationFrances LevistonFrances Leviston’s Public Dream was published by Picador in 2007 and shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.
www.mptmagazine.com2013-06-0404 min
Edward SeckersonA Conversation With IAN BOSTRIDGEIt comes as no surprise that international tenor Ian Bostridge plays a significant part in EMI and Virgin Classics‘ contribution to Britten 100. In this exclusive audio podcast talks to Edward Seckerson about the man, the music, the insecurities, the contradictions, the isolation that came with being a pacifist in time of war and a homosexual in a time of illegality. Bostridge talks from first hand of Britten’s extraordinary gifts as a word-setter – a composer of songs and operas that define his special gifts and, of course, his inspirational union with Peter Pears, his muse, his, partner, his rock. Bostri...2013-04-1529 min
MidweekWill Moult, Diana Quick, Cal McCrystal, Nic Fiddian-GreenLibby Purves meets Will Moult, a Romanian orphan who was adopted by a British couple after the fall of the Ceausescu regime; actor Diana Quick; theatre director Cal McCrystal and sculptor Nic Fiddian-Green.Will Moult was adopted by a British couple in 1990 after the fall of the Ceausescu regime in Romania. More than 20 years later he returns to the country in search of his birth mother for an ITV1 documentary, From Romania with Love.Actor Diana Quick is appearing in Richard Greenberg's The American Plan at the Theatre Royal Bath. Diana's repertoire ranges from Troilus...2013-02-2742 min
Front Row: Archive 201222/11/2012With Mark Lawson. When Matthew Bourne established the dance company Adventures in Motion Pictures in 1987, his pioneering fusion of contemporary dance, classical ballet, and theatre thrilled audiences worldwide, won prizes on both sides of the Atlantic, and divided critics. He discusses his new production of Sleeping Beauty and what he's learned from Strictly Come Dancing.It's exactly 99 years since the birth of composer Benjamin Britten, and next year's centenary celebrations include numerous concerts, operas and broadcasts. But the events of recent weeks have renewed the focus on Britten's friendships with adolescent boys, a subject covered...2012-11-2228 min
Poetry LecturesDon Paterson on Robert FrostIn November 2010, Don Paterson delivered the 22nd Aldeburgh PoetryFestival's annual poet-on-poet lecture on Robert Frost. The lecture, titled "Frost as a Thinker," was co-supported by Poetry magazine and Oxford Poetry.This is an edited version of the live event, organized by The Poetry Trust. Enjoy more podcasts on The Poetry Channel at thepoetrytrust.org.
2011-05-0442 min
Sparks & Wiry Cries PodcastBritten CanticlesTwo performances from the Aldeburgh Connection recital series and recording label in Toronto: 'Abraham and Isaac' and 'The Journey of the Magi', performed by Brett Polegato, Daniel Taylor, Bruce Ubukata and Stephen Ralls and Benjamin Butterfield.2010-12-2400 min
Thoroughly Good Classical Music PodcastComposer Sean Shepherd talks about Aldeburgh during the @bbcsymphonyorch @bbcradio3live gig interval2010-11-2602 minPoetry LecturesSeamus HeaneySeamus Heaney in conversation with Michael Laskey, fellow poet and co-founder of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. This is an edited version of an interview recorded live at the Poetry Prom 2010 organised by The Poetry Trust. Enjoy more podcasts on The Poetry Channel at thepoetrytrust.org.
2010-11-1622 minMidweek20/10/2010This week Libby Purves is joined by Simon Fisher Turner, Maggi Hambling, Sheila Steafel and Rumer.Composer Simon Fisher Turner is a former child actor and teenage pop idol. He has written a new score for the documentary The Great White Silence (1924) which is a record of Captain Scott's last Polar expedition (1910 -1912). The world premiere screening, newly restored by the BFI National Archive, is one of the highlights of the 54th BFI London Film Festival. Maggi Hambling is one of Britain's most celebrated artists. Since the unveiling in 2003, her Scallop sculpture on Aldeburgh Beach...2010-10-2041 min
TouchRadioTouchRadio 43Rehearsal tapes from The Suffolk Symphony.
On August 22nd 2009 Touch will present a multimedia perfomance of The Suffolk Symphony - the culmination of the week's work undertaken during the residency.
Faster than Sound comes to the Snape Proms for more experiments in sound and image.
Faster Than Sound bring more imaginative experiments with sound and image to the Snape Proms with The Suffolk Symphony, a specially commissioned residency and new work by leading sonic and visual production company Touch. Inspired by the historic coastline of Aldeburgh and its surrounding area including Aldeburgh Music's Snape Proms and its history, Touch will...2009-08-2100 min
Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010Maggi HamblingSue Lawley's castaway this week is the artist Maggi Hambling.
Above all else, she is known as a painter of people. Over the past 30 years she has painted George Melly, Stephen Fry and Michael Gambon among many others. But in the early years, her subjects were not well known; instead they were characters she saw on the streets or in the bars of South London. People whose faces she would commit to memory so that she could draw them when she returned to her studio. She was the first artist to be given a residency at the...2005-12-1837 min
Desert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985Sir Peter PearsSir Peter Pears has been acknowledged for many years as an outstanding interpreter of the vocal music of Benjamin Britten. He also helped Britten to found the Aldeburgh Festival and he still takes an active part in the running of it.In conversation with Roy Plomley, Sir Peter talks about his long career and chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: The Sprig Of Thyme by Benjamin Britten
Book: A book by E...1983-06-1136 min