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Saturday Morning: 75th Aldeburgh Festival: Steven Osborne and Judith Weir

75th Aldeburgh Festival: Steven Osborne and Judith Weir

BBC Radio 3 - Saturday Morning, 75th Aldeburgh Festival: Steven Osborne and Judith Weir

Tom Service broadcasts live from the 75th Aldeburgh Festival, with pianist Steven Osborne.

Tom Service broadcasts live from the 75th Aldeburgh Festival where he talks to pianist Steven Osborne and composer Judith Weir.  Plus music that captures Britten and the festival.

Tom Service brings celebrates the 75th Aldeburgh Festival live from Benjamin Britten's former home there, the Red House.  He is joined by Steven Osborne, who plays exclusively on Britten's own piano, and he talks to the composer Judith Weir in The Archive, which houses Britten and Pears’ music manuscripts, papers, rare books and art collection.  Tom introduces the music, sounds and places that captured Benjamin Britten's imagination, and he tells the stories of Snape Maltings and Aldeburgh since its inception in 1948.

0915      
Tom Service talks to Sir Roger Wright about the Aldeburgh Festival in its 75th edition, and introduces an exclusive first play of a new recording of Imogen Holst’s Suite for Strings.  
 
0940 
Scottish pianist, Steven Osborne, plays Schubert and Judith Weir live on Britten’s own Steinway piano, in the Library at the Red House, and talks to Tom about his approach to both the piano and interpreting the music of composers like Schubert and Weir.

1030      
Tom talks to Sophie Allen, Head of Community at Peter Pears Arts, about a new teacher training programme as part of Friday Afternoons, Britten's own programme for reaching out to young musicians both locally and nationally.
 
1100      
With climate change, the landscape of Aldeburgh seems threatened, something which can be heard in Britten's music.  Tom talks to Ian Rowlands of Siren Calling and the Aldeburgh-born sound artist, Lily Hunter Green, about how much can help impart the warnings of climate change.
 
1130     
With Dame Judith Weir, Tom visits Christopher Hilton, the Head of Archive at the Red House, to find out about Britten's settings of Winter Words.  Judith Weir also talks to Tom about her own connections to Britten's former home and how she composes.

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