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Read the press reviews from our 76th Aldeburgh Festival performances:
13 and 14 June: A Visit to Friends
A Visit to Friends
Credit: Richard Hubert SmithIngeniously scripted... premiere filled with lush and gorgeous soundsRichard Morrison, The Times
15 June: Fu and Betts-Dean: Solitude with Schubert
George Xiaoyuan Fu and Lotte Betts-Dean
Where words fall short, Schubert’s music binds performers and audience in a shared meditation on grief
15 June: Knussen Chamber Orchestra: Nocturne and Folk
Claire Booth and the Knussen Chamber Orchestra
Allan Clayton and Claire Booth shine in a programme that spans myth, melancholy and nocturnal dreams
18 June: Bach’s Markus Passion
Bach’s Markus Passion
An astonishing rebirth for Bach’s lost work ... completely gripping
19 – 21 June: New Music Now, Purcell’s King Arthur, Dunedin Consort and more
A solstice sunrise swim crowned the best of times at this phoenix of a festival
21 June: BBC Symphony Orchestra I
As the luminous Anu Komsi sang of a vast peace in the Four Last Songs ... it felt as if time itself had stretched out, a musical echo of the longest day.
22 June: BBC Symphony Orchestra II
Aldeburgh Festival is at its varied best in BBC Symphony Orchestra concertThe Telegraph ****
26 June: BBC Singers
BBC Singers in Spectacular Form at the Aldeburgh Festival
Main image: A Visit to Friends © Richard Hubert Smith